Helen Blackhurst
- County
- Clare
- Genre
- Novelist, Short-Story Writer
- Sessions
- Reading and Q&A, Discussion with Writer
- Age Group
- 5 - 6, 7 - 10
- Level
- Primary
- Languages
- Works in English ONLY
- Availability
- Thursday, Friday
Mornings, Afternoons - Travel
- Yes
Publications/Repertoire/Productions & Background Experience
Swimming On Dry Land – Novel (published by Seren in November 2015), Rainfish – Novel (under consideration), 'That SnowMan' – Short Story (The Stinging Fly Literary Magazine, March 2001.) Award for The Francis MacManus Short Story Competition: Broadcast on RTE 1/Raidió Telefís Éireann (April 1999), Do you Take Sugar, a play performed in The Players Theatre, Dublin (March 1998)' The Water Wizard Puppet show for The Science Museum London (January 1998).
Helen is experienced at working in schools and is part of the Creative Schools Programme with the Arts Council. She has done numerous writer-in-residence projects in both primary and secondary schools, including St. Mary’s Primary School, Limerick, Newport College, Tipperary, and Thormond College, Limerick. She is currently working on a collection of short stories and her third novel.
Session Details
The creative writing workshops aim to develop students’ creativity and build confidence in story-making, to encourage a sense of fun and adventure in the writing process. Elements of a story are explored through images/props, aspects of drama and storytelling as well as putting words on a page. Play is at the heart of this process for me – developing a space in which stories can grow.
- Telephone
- 0872859049
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