Creative Writing Adults Summer School

Course Requirements

1. A willingness to explore your creative expression.

2. An interest in creative writing.

3. A desire to develop your creativity.

Course goals

1. To explore your creative expression.

2.To develop your creative writing skills.

3.To take your writing seriously.

Each 3 hour class is an active workshop that consists of a mix of writing techniques/subjects that we will explore, and creative writing exercises that are done together.

The workshops use Haiku, music, storytelling, memory, and myth to help writers to develop creative flow.

The workshops are structured to help writers to explore writing on a practical level. To be both in the moment and slightly distanced from it. Over the two-week course we will use all five senses to describe the world around us, we will explore the joy of words, and we will dip into our memories as we search for the voice that tells the story. It does not matter in which order you attend the two weeks.

Homework is assigned at every workshop as a follow-through of the day's theme and is discussed/corrected collectively at the next class. Story prompts are also provided at each workshop.

Couse content:

Writing from the outside in/inside out

The power of memory

Writing Emotion

Simile and Metaphor

Bringing it all together

Tina Pisco

Tina Pisco had a successful career in the Brussels press corps as a journalist and television news producer before moving to West Cork and turning her hand to writing full-time. She is the author of the best-selling novels, ‘Only A Paper Moon’ and ‘To Catch A Magpie’ as well as of a collection of newspaper columns: ‘A West Cork Life’. She writes regularly for newspapers, books and magazines as well working as an editorial consultant and teacher.

Kinsale Pottery can recommend a range of local accommodation providers from simple B&B's to five star guest houses and hotels. ASk for a list when you book.

Kinsale Pottery and Arts Centre provides arts and crafts courses for adults and children, specialising in pottery, art, drawing and painting, film animation, glass fusing and stained glass, jewellery-making, mixed media, book binding, and mosaic-making. We run weekly morning and evening classes, weekend breaks, summer schools and tailor-made workshops for corporate groups and private parties.

We can accommodate up to 30 people in one class and up to 50 in a group, or as few as two or three at a time. All our courses suit beginners, enthusiasts and professionals, using a wide range of facilities and techniques. The pottery includes electric and raku kilns, stoneware and earthenware clays, and we teach throwing, hand-building and all varieties of glazing.

Kinsale Pottery is situated just 20 minutes from Cork Airport, close to the centre of the beautiful historic harbour of Kinsale, famed for its restaurants and shops. The pottery is in the converted stables of the home farm for Ballinacurra House, and the gallery is in the eaves of its coach house, which dates back to 1795.

Since 2001, we have provided classes and courses to suit all levels of skill and experience ranging from the complete beginner through to exhibitor standard and the school has become the largest and most established centre of its kind in Ireland. We stock a wide selection of clays and glazes, our pottery courses cover the full range of ceramics and sculpting techniques.

Kinsale is internationally renowned for its cuisine, its cosmopolitan style and the beauty of its harbour. There are many excellent pubs and restaurants in the town, as well as a wide range of art and craft shops. What better place to learn a craft, or take a break.

Adrian Wistreich, Ceramic Artist.

After more than 20 years of corporate life in London, working as a publisher and research consultant, I left the rat-race to pursue my ambition of becoming an artist and teacher. I completed a diploma in Ceramics and Design at Hackney College of Art, London, moved to Kinsale with my family and set-up the Kinsale Pottery and Art School.

My desire to teach comes from my experience as a communicator, I have learned to find and stimulate the artist in us all, regardless of our experience of art.

I tend to be sculptural in my own work drawing on a love of form and texture through smoke-fired abstract ceramic pieces and studies of people. I have increasingly brought colour to my work developing my own stoneware glazes, which are available for students to try out. I want to break down the barriers between traditional craft skills and the apparent inaccessibility of fine art