Listowel Writers week Archives - Megan Wynne Writer. Speaker. Facilitator. Tue, 25 Aug 2015 16:46:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Students Win Listowel Writers’ Week Literary Competitions! https://meganwynne.com/winning-student-writers-at-listowel-writers-week/ Mon, 27 Apr 2015 18:56:46 +0000 http://meganwynne.com/?p=2302 Wonderful news for my students from the Listowel Writers’ Week Writing competitions! I’m so proud and excited! Sadhbh Cushen has won joint second place in the nine years and under category. Sadhbh attends classes in Skerries and wrote a very funny story (told mostly through dialogue) about a child who doesn’t want to go to sleep. She shares this prize with Grace Lenny, who is doing an online writing course ...

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]]> A Wonderful Writing Week https://meganwynne.com/a-wonderful-writing-week/ Wed, 11 Jun 2014 09:48:34 +0000 http://meganwynne.com/?p=1721 We had a very special time at Listowel Writers’ Week from 28th May – 1st June. I was lucky enough to spend time with one of my favourite writers, Douglas Kennedy. I learned a lot from him about writing and about life. My wonderful students Ciara Hogan and Sarah McKenna collected their prizes at the awards ceremony and saw their work published alongside top Irish writers Donal McCann, Deirdre Madden ...

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]]> Listowel Writers’ Week https://meganwynne.com/listowel-writers-week-2/ Wed, 28 May 2014 08:07:55 +0000 http://meganwynne.com/?p=1685 Today I am heading down to Listowel in County Kerry to attend their national writing festival. Listowel is my absolute favourite writing festival in Ireland and I’m so excited to be teaching there for the firs time. Not only that, two of my students have won first prize in the writing for youth competitions, and I will be attending the awards ceremony with them this evening. I am also re-launching ...

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]]> Writing Students Win Listowel Writers’ Week Literary Competitons 2014 ! https://meganwynne.com/winning-writing-students/ Mon, 05 May 2014 15:59:40 +0000 http://meganwynne.com/?p=1622 I am delighted to announce that two of the children who attend my creative writing classes have won first place in the Listowel Writers’ Week Literary Writing competition for youth. This is a great honour and I am absolutely delighted for them. Sarah McKenna, who attends my writing classes in Skerries, has won first place in the under twelves category and Ciara Hogan, who attends my classes in Malahide, has ...

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]]> New Ventures https://meganwynne.com/new-ventures/ Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:00:04 +0000 http://meganwynne.com/?p=504 Yesterday, I received the goods news that The Department of Education has approved my summer writing courses for teachers. The course ‘Improving Literacy Standards Through Creative Writing’ will take place in Skerries Mills from 6 – 10th and 20 -24th Augus 2012. This is an exciting new venture for me and I hope to meet lots of teachers with a passion for writing. As a result of this, the dates ...

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