Creative Writing in Ireland

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This six-week online Creative Writing Seminar taught by playwright Marina Carr on behalf of the Kylemore Global Centre. The course will feature online creative writing instruction including lectures, discussions, workshoping and critiques of student's work. Students in this virtual setting will reflect upon peer's fiction, poetry, scripts and/or hybrid writing. Themes that will be discussed will be ghosts, hearing voices, climate, landscape, and contemplation. Students will have the opportunity to engage with classical texts, Irish poets and authors in a virtual setting and workshop longer drafts and have readings in multiple genres will continue as we consider the role of the U.S./Irish writer in a global context. There will be the opportunity to attend virtual literary events, as well as virtual plays. Upon the completion of the course the student will have had the opportunity to work and develop their craft.