Starting in January, Galway Arts Centre presents a daytime class for all those beginner and
continuing creative writing students out there, facilitated by Susan Millar DuMars. Susan
Millar DuMars writes both poetry and fiction. A collection of her stories, Lights In The Distance, was
published in December 2010 by Doire Press; she has published four collections
of poetry, Big Pink Umbrella
(2008), Dreams For Breakfast
(2010), The God Thing
(2013), & Bone Fire (2016) all
with Salmon Poetry. Susan was the Featured Fiction writer in a the American
online magazine The
Atticus Review. She is also co-organiser of the Over The
Edge reading series which specifically promotes new writers. Susan edited the
anthology Over the Edge – the first ten
years, published by Salmon, which includes work by forty seven writers who
have published a first book since they did a reading at an Over The Edge: Open
Reading in Galway City Library.
The class is suitable for both
beginning and continuing creative writing students, working in either poetry or
fiction. Students will spend their weeks responding to writing exercises
designed to inspire, rather than inhibit. In class, they will receive gentle
feedback on their work from their classmates and from the teacher. The class
takes place on Monday afternoons, 2.30-4.30pm, commencing on Monday,
January 21st. It runs for 8 weeks.
The cost to participants is 110
Euro with an 100 Euro concession price. Booking is
essential as places are limited. There are no refunds once the class has
started. For booking please contact Galway Arts Centre, 47 Dominick
Street, phone 091 565886, email info@galwayartscentre.ie, or go
to GalwayArtsCentre.ie