Discover your creativity and imagination in a creative writing workshop in Ireland. Or join The Creative Writer’s Workshop via an online Fiction Writing or Memoir Writing Group – a live, interactive creative writing workshop and writing course, with Irene Graham - founder of The Creative Writer’s Workshop (1991) - and discover your creativity and imagination from home! Enhance your unique writing voice, explore your creative writing abilities and allow your writing to be inspired by The Creative Writer’s Workshop – an internationally renowned writing retreat for writers – now available interactively online with Irene Graham, as you write fiction and personal memoir.
Enjoy our creative writing workshops and writing retreats at one of our magnificent locations:
- the Aran Island of Inis Mór off the west coast of County Galway, Ireland
- a 14th Century Castle set in the heart of W.B.Yeats countryside in County Sligo, Ireland
- the stunning landscape of the Glendalough Valley in County Wicklow, Ireland
Whether you enjoy The Creative Writer’s Workshop at one of the above locations or via an interactive Writing Group with Irene Graham, you will be encouraged to explore your imagination and understand the art of story creation, personal memoir writing and creative writing as you learn to think like a writer. Using right-brain/left-brain learning techniques and exercises you will discover and strengthen your unique writing voice, understand how to tap into your creativity and draw from the well of life experience as you learn how to imaginatively translate those experiences into words for potential story development.
Through the medium of writing you will invigorate your senses and stimulate your thoughts as you enhance your abilities to create and write. The Creative Writer’s Workshop is a proven success internationally with new and established writers.
Our interactive, Online Writing Group offers the opportunity to connect with a community of new and established international writers as you engage in the creative writing process in fiction and memoir writing. Group numbers are limited.
Our Writing Retreats encourage you to engage with the landscape, the stories of the ancestors and draw upon the resources of the collective universe and our individual selves to unblock the path to creativity and self-expression through writing. You will learn the art of story creation and how to write creative stories, you will experience an unforgettable holiday, but most of all be inspired by your own creativity.
Whether your passion is to use your imagination to translate life experiences into fiction, or recall your life story and write creative non-fiction, you will lean how to do so in The Creative Writer’s Workshop.
Let the door of your imagination be opened.
Be inspired…write your story!
The Creative Writer’s Workshop is also tutored as commissioned writing workshops with private groups internationally via our interactive online writing facility.
The Creative Writer’s Workshop is also held in conjunction with Arts Organisations and Festivals for adults and young people. In 2005 workshops were held in The National Library of Ireland with the James Joyce Ulysses Exhibition and at the Irish Writers’ Centre in Dublin to celebrate the bi-centenary of Hans Christian Andersen. In 2007 The Creative Writer’s Workshop was included in the birthday celebration of William Butler Yeats at The National Library of Ireland.
For further details of The Creative Writer’s Workshop with Irene at Festivals and Events in 2010, please visit the ‘Irene @ Literary Festivals & Talks 2010’ page on this website.
Founded in 1991 by Irene Graham, The Creative Writer’s Workshop is a renowned writing retreat for new and established writers. The development of The Creative Writer’s Workshop International Online Writing Group provides writers with the opportunity to explore their writing abilities interactively with Irene LIVE online. The Creative Writer’s Workshop is approved by The Dept. of Education & Science in Ireland.
The Memoir Writing Workbook, created by Irene, further assists the writer to explore their inner world of intuition, feeing and imagination – which results in greater access to inherent creativity and the ability to write from the heart.