Bantry / Sunday 7 – Saturday 13 July - West Cork Music

5-Day WorkshopsBecoming a Travel Writer in FiveEasy Steps with Kevin Rushby / €160Bantry Bay Series / This Workshop will take placeon Whiddy Island.Registration at Colaiste PobailBheanntrai on the first day of workshop.Learn how to create travel stories, for both articles andbooks, for publication both in print and digitally. Overthe week the course will look into how to identify storieswhen they fly past you and how to research, plan and collectinformation. You will learn how to seamlessly incorporatequotes and facts, write conversation and put it all together;how to write that killer opening paragraph and how to finish;how to edit your own work and present it in a professionaland persuasive manner. The workshop will also cover othermaterials: photographs, film and sound, and how to use theinternet as an outlet.Kevin Rushby is the chief travel correspondent of TheGuardian and author of several acclaimed travel books,including Hunting Pirate Heaven and Eating the Flowersof Paradise. His most recent book is Paradise, an historicalaccount of human searching for perfection over thecenturies. He is also co-founder of the documentary filmcompany Thinktank Films.From top:Kevin Rushby (photo: Maddy Carr Rushby); Carol DrinkwaterMemoir & Non-Fictionwith Carol Drinkwater / €160What is a memoir? Is it simply writing about one’s own past –like a series of diary entries strung together, or is it actually awell-crafted story? Writing non-fiction, particularly memoir,can be very liberating and rewarding, but it requires disciplineand skills not dissimilar to those required for writing fiction.During this workshop we will identify the story you want totell and why you want to tell it. We will consider what makesyour story riveting, how you can capture and hold the reader’sattention, and we will address the nature of honesty.Non-fiction allows the author to establish the most intimate ofrelationships with their readers. It is exciting and challenging– and you might even have a bestseller on your hands!Carol Drinkwater is an Anglo-Irish actress, author andfilm-maker. Best known for her award-winning portrayalof Helen Herriot in the television adaptation of the JamesHerriot books, All Creatures Great and Small, she has actedin numerous television series and films, including Bouquetof Barbed Wire and Another Bouquet. She also appeared inStanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange and won a Critics’Circle Best Screen Actress award for her role in the filmFather. Drinkwater’s children’s book, The Haunted School, wasproduced as a mini-series and a Disney film. She is currentlyworking on a series of documentary films inspired by herbooks, The Olive Route and The Olive Tree.35