Creative writing and Storytelling

Storytelling

Siofra is available as storyteller for both children and adults. She performs at events and for children in schools, enacting faery tales, folklore and Irish mythology.
Where better than in the forest at the lake's edge to evoke the Tuatha De Danaan and the ancient tales of Ireland?

Haiku Forest Workshop

Saturday, 13th June, 11am-4pm

Forest Bathing/ Shinrin-yoku. In the tradition of Matsuo Basho, Narrow Road to the Interior/Travel Diaries. Walking and finding inspiration. The iconic Japanese short poem is the definition of brevity. Elegant, compact (seventeen syllables traditionally) and perfectly unrhymed – every word counts.
Find inspiration for writing Haiku on Forest Walks with Siofra. Observe, reflect, perceive nature around you as it shifts from season to season.
Siofra co-founded The Irish Haiku Society with Anatoly Kudryavitsky in 2006. She is published in ‘Bamboo Dreams – An Anthology of Haiku Poetry from Ireland’ Doghouse Press, edited by Anatoly Kudryavitsky.
Starting from 65,00 euro.
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Faery Tale Workshop

Sunday 7th June 11am-4pm

This workshop is an in-depth exploration of the Faery Tale. How to de-code them, how to understand what they mean, how to write your own faery tale.
Irish, European and Asian Faery Tales are explored in the place where so many faery tales begin - in the Dark Forest. Grimm Brothers, Charles Perrault, Hans C. Anderson, Irish Wonder Tales and Slavic tales explored.
Starting from 75,00 euro.
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Performance Storytelling

A Tale of the Morrigan and a Faery Abduction

A Tale performed in the tradition of the Seannachaí (old Irish Storytellers) about the Abduction by the Faeries of Micky and Peggy Tobin, by the Morrigan and by the Faeries (Sídhe) Peggy Tobin must remove the Curse on the Morrigan, Queen of the Battles of Madh Tuaradh in order to have her husband returned to her.
Starting from 15,00 euro.
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The Hero's Journey

Writing Workshop

This writing workshop uses Joseph Campbell’s Monomyth, a narrative structure ideally suited to screen writing and novel writing, but also adaptable for personal reflection and memoir writing. Creative Meditation and Myth used to elicit authentic writing. Dorlindon is the perfect place for a Hero’s Journey with its deep forest and its magical, elven architecture.

Heroine's Journey

Writing Workshop

This writing workshop is a dynamic exploration of aspects of the Feminine Journey through Creative Writing, Meditation and Mythology. Draws from the work of Maureen Murdock, Sharon Blackie, Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung and Clarissa Pinkola Estés. Come and write your Heroine's Journey on the lake between the Queen and the King’s islands at Dorlindon.

Pencraft workshop

Writing Workshop

Pencraft workshops help the writer to hone their skill, forge the raw material they have into prose that works, with their own voice and hallmark. The rest is the continual polishing of the nuts and bolts, so that the surface shines and the reader falls into, as John Gardner puts it "the continuous dream".