Denise Deegan
- County
- Dublin
- Genre
- Novelist, Teen Fiction Writer, Screenwriter
- Sessions
- Reading and Q&A, Discussion with Writer, Creative Writing Workshop, Storytelling Workshop
- Age Group
- 11-15, 16 - 18
- Level
- Post Primary
- Languages
- Works in English ONLY
- Availability
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Mornings, Afternoons - Travel
- Yes
Publications/Repertoire/Productions & Background Experience
Historical YA, Through the Barricades – a coming of age story set during The Lockout, The Easter Rising and WW1, winner of the SCBWI Spark Award, selected as a Publishers Weekly Books to Watch.
Coming of age trilogy, The Butterfly Novels: And By The Way, And For Your Information, And Actually often used by schools to support the Rainbow programme, as they address issues of loss. And Actually deals with bullying. And For Your Information was short-listed for an Irish Book Award.
Currently adapting And For Your Information as a feature film with support from a Screen Ireland Development Fund. Comedy drama feature, Tough Old Broad is with producers.
Session Details
Interactive Story Workshops: to build story-telling confidence, help students get started, building flawed, interesting characters who grow, develop plot, using all the senses when storytelling.
Screenwriting Workshops: using movie clips, scripts and graphs to help students appreciate the specific challenges of writing for a visual medium of specific length, teaching the three act structure, character arcs and scene writing.
Extended Screenwriting Workshops: 5 hours. Watching a film with students, pausing and commenting. Followed by a theoretical session (as above) using the viewed film as an example so that everyone is on the same page.
Age Group Details
I like to work with kids from eight up - the type of exercises I do with them require a certain level of knowledge.
- Telephone
- 087 2535277
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- Website
- https://denisedeegan.wordpress.com/