In September
GMIT is offering a course in Creative Writing for Beginners with Susan Millar
DuMars. The course takes place at GMIT Dublin Road Campus one evening per week
(Wednesday) for 7 weeks from 7–9p.m. It commences on Wednesday, September 25th,
2013. Advance booking is essential. The course fee is €95.
During
the seven weeks Susan Millar DuMars will give support, instruction and feedback
to students who are interested in writing either fiction (short stories,
novels) or poetry. The class will work on techniques for forming ideas and
getting started; engaging the reader’s senses; using figures of speech
effectively; being alert to the importance of the sound of words, the rhythm of
writing; how to manage the truth in a fictitious piece; the different forms of
poetry; awareness of character and point of view in fiction; editing and
polishing work. Whether the student seeks publication, self-expression, a
rewarding hobby (or possibly all three), this course is a wonderful place to
start.
For
further details or to book a place contact GMIT, Dublin Road, Galway. Telephone
091 742145, email lifelonglearning@gmit.ie or see http://www.gmit.ie/lifelong-learning/lifelong-learning-programmes/humanities/creative-writing-for-beginners.html
Course Tutor:
Susan
Millar DuMars’ debut poetry collection, Big Pink Umbrella, was published
by Salmon Poetry in 2008. Her next collection, Dreams for Breakfast,
appeared in April 2010. Her work features in Landing Places,
Dedalus’ 2010 anthology of immigrant poetry written in Ireland; and also in The
Best Of Irish Poetry 2010. A fiction writer as well, she published a
collection of short stories, American Girls, with Lapwing in 2007.
She published a book of short stories in 2010: Lights in the Distance,
published by Doire Press. She has been the recipient of an Arts Council
Literature Bursary. Susan's third collection of poetry, The God Thing, was published by Salmon
Poetry in March. She lives in
Galway, where she and her husband have run the Over the Edge readings series
since 2003.
