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 Tales and Mirrors

Saturday 22nd August 11am-4pm

Faery Tales in the Glass House by the Lake. Exploring Mirrors in Faery Tales- The Snow Queen, Snow White and Alice in Wonderland. Irish and European Faery Tales– Grimm Brothers, Charles Perrault, Hans C. Anderson, Irish Wonder Tales and Slavic tales. A continuation of the Faery Tale Workshop in June at Dorlindon, but all are welcome. You will be guided in writing your own Faery Tale. No Writing Experience necessary. 8 week course to begin in Autumn.
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 and the Grail

Saturday 26th september 11am-4pm

An exploration of Joseph Campbell's hero's journey and the Holy Grail. Myth, meditation and creative writing. Arthurian legends, hero's journey and finding your grail.
Starting from 75,00 euro.
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The Heroine's Journey

Saturday 12th September 11am-4pm

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.
Starting from 75,00 euro.
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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".