To celebrate my New After School Creative Writing Class for children (aged 8 -12) beginning in Swords on Wednesday 11th September. I am giving away a FREE place to one lucky child! All you have to do is 1) LIKE my facebook page, 2) SHARE the competition post, and 3) answer the following question: Where in Swords are Megan Wynne’s After School Creative Writing Classes beginning on Wednesday 11th September? …
September Classes Now Booking!
September is almost upon us and I have a great schedule of classes lined up – more than ever before! Every student (child / adult) who enrolls in this coming term will be invited to submit a story to be published in our annual book of stories this November – very exciting! There is a Monday evening class for adults in Loughshinny from 7 – 9p.m. and a Friday morning …
Adult Summer Writing Week in Skerries Mills
I had an interesting and lively group of adult writers in Skerries Mills last week. Everyday from 10.30 -1.30p.m. we played about with fictional characters (a neurosurgeon called Eileen featured frequently), and put them in scenes using dialogue and action. I really enjoyed listening to the stories, and the writers enjoyed themselves too. Here’s what some of them had to say about the course: “I enjoyed the course immensely. Megan …
Teenage Creative Writing Summer Camp
A very intelligent bunch of teenagers attended my summer camp in Skerries Mills last week. I really enjoyed their writing and their humour! Thanks to Hannah, Mia, John, Orin, Fiona, Paula, Grace and Kaitlinn for a great week. Here’s a picture of them and some of their feedback about the course: “I thoroughly enjoyed the summer camp and learned a ton of news things to help write stories. …
Children’s Summer Camp
My first children’s creative writing summer camp in Skerries Mills was a great success with a wonderful group of nine clever girls. We wrote stories about dancers, scary step-fathers, lost dogs, blind and deaf twins, little girls who wanted to be pop-stars, a unicorn called Diablo and being deserted on an island. Here are some photos of the girls writing their stories.
Summer Camp Competition!
Hot press news – I am running a competition to win a space on my teenage summer camp in Skerries Mills this July! All you have to do is go like my MeganWynne Creative Writing facebook page, and share and like my competition post. Here’s what some of the teenagers who attended my summer camp in Donabate this June said: “It was amazing and taught me how to stich a …
Wonderful News!
I am so proud of Hannah Rudden (aged twelve) who not only won first place in this year’s under twelve category in Listowel Writers’ Week Short Story competition for youth, she has also won the Dear Grace writing competition for the second year running and will be attending an awards ceremony in the Helix next autumn. I have been teaching Hannah since she was eight years old, when she was …
Winner of Dalkey Book Festival Four Forty Competition!
Lads, I must be doing something right -another of my writing students has won a short story competition! Aran Keating (age 10) has won the Dalkey Book Festival Four Forty Short story Competition! Aran attends my after school writing classes is Malahide. He is a brilliant, original and funny writer. He and his family have won a weekend in a four star hotel (the Killiney Court Hotel), tickets to loads …
Discounts for Multiple Bookings!
My children’s and teenage summer camps are booking up nicely, especially for the month of July. If you wish to booking more than one child in your family into a summer camp, I am offering a discount of €10 for every participant. One child alone costs €120, but two children cost €110 each and three children cost €100 each. And, if you have more than three children, we can have …
New Adult Summer Writing Course!
I was chatting to some adult writing students this week and they told me they wished writing classes continued over the summer. Usually I don’t do weekly classes during the summer months, however due to their feedback I have decided to offer an evening class on Mondays from 7 – 9p.m. beginning 10th June. The course will take place in my home in Loughshinny in a large room over looking …
Rest in Peace, Fiona
Fiona Moore was a lovely fifteen year old girl who attended writing classes with me from September until Easter this year. Fiona was a hip, contemporary and humorous writer. She had a sophisticated and perceptive eye. She loved writing. She was very good at it. She took criticism well, but was also very sure of what she wanted to write. Her mother, Deirdre, used to wait outside every class in …
Early Booking Deal for Summer Camps!
I am running an early booking deal for my creative writing summer camps. Children’s and Teenage camps cost only €105 until midnight on Friday 31st May. From then on the full price of €120 applies for each participant. (There will still be discounts available for multiple bookings). So if you are your child are interested in attending a course, please go to my summer camps’ page and get booking!!!
Children’s Ireland Book Conference
I was lucky enough to attend the Children’s Ireland Book Conference last weekend in the Lighthouse Cinema in Smithfield. What a super cool venue! John Boyne (one of my heroes) was interviewed by Robert Dunbar, and afterwards I asked John a question. How did he come up with the idea of a boy who floats for his children’s novel ‘The Terrible Thing that Happened to Barnaby Brocket.’ He said that …
Writing Competitions for Children, Teens and Adult writers of Children’s fiction
There are two great writing competitions coming up. The first is run by the Dalkey Book Festival with a great prize of €250 book voucher, tickets to the Dalkey Book Festival 14th -16th June, a weekend stay in The Fitzpatrick Hotel, Killiney, and lunch with some children’s authors. All you have to do (if you are under 13 or under 9 years old) is write a story that is four …
Summer Camps are Booking!
SUMMER CAMPS 2013!!! Below is a photo of blue sky and happy faces at last year’s creative writing camp in Skerries Mills. Here’s hoping that we have lovely sunshine in June, July and August. This year, I have lots of new dates and venues for summer camps and courses on both the North and Southside of Dublin. There are separate courses for teenagers, children and adults in Donabate, Skerries, Blackrock …
