Creative Community Sessions
@ccsessions_ie
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Creative Community Sessions was created by Jennifer McMahon (@AuthorJmcm) to bring together emerging writers to deliver talks on all aspects of the craft.
Ireland
Joined September 2024
You can find recorded talks on our website!
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Tickets are now available for our first session of 2025, happening on Saturday March 22nd! This is a FREE online event, and is not to be missed!
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We'll be launching our first Creative Community Sessions event on EventBrite in the next day or so, and look at the incredible speakers we have lined up for you: - Laura McDonagh - @MarkBurrow20 - @DelGeo14 - @BlarneyKate - @Byddi - Róisín Ní Neachtain
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I'm making a list of writers and poets whom I'd love to see take part in the next two Creative Community Sessions events. If you're an Irish or UK-based artist and would like to speak at one of the 2025 events, send me a DM. Invitations willl be going out soon!
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Our next live sessions will take place in March and April 2025. If you're an emerging writer or poet in Ireland or the UK, and would be interested in being one of our speakers, drop us a DM with your bio, and maybe an idea for a topic for your talk!
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Featuring: Jennifer McMahon John O’Donnell Mike Murray Sylvia Leatham Seán McNicholl June O’Sullivan Theresa Ryder Barbara Byar Doreen Duffy Susan Condon Daragh Fleming Cormac Culkeen
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Our final video from our 2024 events features an encouraging talk from Doreen Duffy @doreen_duffy13, about her writing journey and the simple steps we can take to get into writing.
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In our next video, Susan Condon @SusanCondon takes a deep dive into all things character, and includes lots of tools and tips to help both new and experienced writers create fully realised and memorable characters.
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Daragh Fleming, author of LONELY BOY, is a well-known speaker on writing and mental health. Here, Daragh gives an inspiring and deeply personal talk about writing for mental health, writing emotions, and writing as a service.
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Our next recording from our Nov 16 event is a must-see; it fired my imagination and gave me many new ideas. Theresa Ryder @TheresaRyder_ delivers a captivating and truly inspiring talk about the Classics and the working-class writer.
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Our first recording from our Nov 16 event is up, in which Cormac Culkeen delivers a brilliant talk on the reading and writing of poetry.
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@doreen_duffy13 @AuthorJmcm @SylviaLeatham @SusanCondon @TheresaRyder_ @DaraghFleming @BarbaraByar I'm delighted you were a part of it, Doreen, your talk was excellent!
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Huge thanks to all the writers who gave amazing talks yesterday, and to our speakers at the Oct event. That's a wrap for Creative Community Sessions for 2024, but we'll be back in early 2025 for more wonderful talks and presentations.
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Only 4 tickets remaining for our Nov 16 event. Don't miss your chance to hear talks from these amazing writers!
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Our final recording from our Oct 19 event is of John O'Donnell's @JlodJohn excellent talk about the ways in which writers can get stuck, and the tools they can use to get unstuck.
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Our next video is a brilliant talk given by Mike Murray @MikeyboyWriter at our Oct 19 event, about his long journey as an emerging writer, and the often hard realities of the publishing industry.
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We were delighted to have Sylvia Leatham @SylviaLeatham as one of our speakers at our Oct 19 event, and you can now watch the recording of her excellent talk and presentation on editing with the reader in mind!
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