Travel Writing - Course - Writing & Publishing

hosted by Paul Clements

Centre for Creative Practices

Thursday, 11/Mar/2010 06:30 PM

  • Course details

    Length: 10 weeks
    Thursday 6.30 - 8.30 pm
    Dates: 4, 11, 18, 25 March /1, 8, 15, 22 29 April 6 May
    Fee: €250
    Ealry bird fee: €230 (if paid for before the 4 March 2010)

  • Description

    Through looking at good travel writing examples, we will consider how writers create mood and pace, and capture the atmosphere of a place. We also look at how to use dialogue and how to portray people.

  • Tutor Biography

    Paul Clements

    Paul Clements is a writer, journalist and tutor. He worked for the BBC for more than 25 years in Belfast and London where his roles included radio and television news reporter, environment correspondent, chief sub-editor and assistant news editor. He now works freelance for the BBC and contributes to a range of newspapers and magazines including The Irish Times, Irish Examiner, Guardian, Escape, and Ireland of the Welcomes.

     

    He has written two travel books about Ireland: Irish Shores: A Journey Round the Rim of Ireland and The Height of Nonsense: The Ultimate Irish Road Trip. He has written and edited two books on the travel writer and historian Jan Morris.

     

    Paul is also a contributing editor to two travel guides: Insight and Fodor’s. He has led workshops in creative writing at many of Ireland’s premier arts festivals and tutors travel writing classes at Queen’s University, Belfast, and broadcast journalism at Belfast Metropolitan College: www.paulclementswriting.com

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