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
Bring a Friend Scheme
** Special Offer**
Anyone who books a place on a course we will offer a 25% discount if they refer a friend. Refer four friends who book and you can come along for free.
