I’m obviously a bit behind with blogging but after Saturday and Giant’s Causeway and the beginning of the very busy John Hewitt Summer School, I’ve been a bit distracted. The festival has begun though and it’s amazing. Admittedly, it is a little intimidating to be surrounded by so many brilliant people but at the same […]
Day Two of Hewitt Festival was a good deal better than Day One for two reasons. First, while my crime fiction workshop has still to teach me anything new about writing (I’m now convinced that the best and only way to learn about writing is just to do it), it has revealed a great deal […]
It’s that time of the night again where everything is bleary, my fingers are numb from typing two other blog posts, and a sentimental air fills the quiet room of the Armagh City Youth Hostel. I look out the window, and it’s pure dark and I wonder, with the end of my journey rapidly approaching, […]
As promised, in a continuing fit of self-involvement, another blog post in the same night! Part of the Hewitt Summer School is the completion of a workshop that meets three out of the five days and presents its work on the last day of the festival. These workshops cover a variety of writing genres including […]
So for those of you that don’t keep a running calendar of all the international writing festivals taking place in Armagh City, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, this past Monday marked the beginning of the John Hewitt International Summer School, which is an international writers conference and seminar that features presentations, readings, and yours […]
Today was a less productive day for me. I only went to one daytime activity, which was the lunchtime reading with Gavin Corbett who was fabulousssssss (and very attractive.) His latest book is titled “This is the Way.” Here is the excerpt from the back cover: “Anthony Sonaghan is hiding out in an old tenement […]
I can’t say I’m surprised about the festival being full of talented individuals, but I also am having a hard time putting it into words. I’ve never been to anything like this. I’ve only been to the kind of festivals full of blaring music and drunken, sloppy young adults. Doesn’t really compare. Its been really […]
Day two of the JHISS festival is coming to a close, and I really can’t be enthusiastic enough about it. In the past twelve hours, I’ve had: a lengthy chat and literary discussion with the incomparable Nessa O’Mahoney, a poetry reading by Penelope Shuttle that made me feel like I was peering into the inner […]
So we’ve just been through Day One of the John Hewitt Festival. What are my first impressions? It was okay. I mean, the opening ceremony was interesting. I didn’t know there were any Indian people living in Ireland, so the Indian speaker was a bit of an eye-opener for me. The lunchtime reader had some […]
The Hewitt was awesome! I came into it with a very open mind. I had no idea how many people were going to be there, how the speeches were going to go, and especially what was going to be required of me at the historical fiction workshop. When I told one of my good friends […]
