Words, In Other Places. Creative Writing Workshop, Belfast

Creativity, Craft and Commitment; a creative writing workshop with Sarah Moore Fitzgerald.

Creativity, Craft and Commitment: principles for supporting your creative writing with Sarah Moore Fitzgerald'. During this two-hour interactive workshop, Sarah will explore some of the most important, evidence-based principles for supporting creative work, facilitate participants in engaging in useful writing exercises and explore approaches for fostering fluency and flow. By the end of the workshop participants will have a metaphorical tool box full of practical strategies for igniting the creative writing spark and keeping it lit.

Sarah Moore Fitzgerald has a background in psychology, pedagogy and organisational behaviour at the University of Limerick. She is course director of UL's MA in Creative Writing and founding director of UL's Creative Writing WInter School and Spring retreats. An award winning writer of short fiction and novels, Sarah is also a literacy advocate and was Ireland’s inaugural chair of the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. She’s played other leadership roles at UL including Associate Vice President, Academic and Dean of Teaching and Learning. She has published many books and research papers in the areas of teaching, learning, psychology and organisational behaviour. Her fiction has received awards and been shortlisted for many literary awards and prizes.

She has been shortlisted for the Waterstones Prize, The Calderdale Book Awards, Scotland’s Red Book Awards, The Irish Book Awards and CBI book of the year. Her seven novels have been widely translated and are published by Orion and Hachette. Her fiction has been adapted for the stage in Edinburgh and on London’s West End. Sarah is a winner of The London Magazine’s short fiction prize, and was 2023 winner of the CBI artists’ residency bursary. She's passionate about helping emerging creative writers to focus on their work and to achieve their creative goals with pleasure and success.

Words, In Other Places, an Irish Writers Centre Literary Festival, in partnership with the European Parliament Liaison Office in Ireland

Over the course of one weekend, Saturday 11 April at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University in Belfast, and Sunday 12 April at the Irish Writers Centre in Dublin, Words, In Other Places will showcase a tri-lateral range of form, talent and diversity in today’s literary scene, looking to the north and south of Ireland while welcoming international writers.