New Year Daytime Creative Writing with Susan Millar DuMars at Galway Arts Centre New Year Daytime Creative Writing with Susan Millar DuMars at Galway Arts Centre
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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 five collections of poetry, Big Pink Umbrella (2008), Dreams For Breakfast (2010), The God Thing (2013), Bone
Fire (2016), and Naked: New and
Selected Poems (2019), 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, 2.30-4.00pm, commencing on Monday, January
27th. It runs for 10 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 https://www.galwayartscentre.ie/courses/213-creative-writing-with-susan-millar-dumars
