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

5-Day WorkshopsA Professional Finishwith Hazel Orme / €160It is often daunting to show your writing to a friend,let alone to an agent or publisher. These workshops aredesigned to help you give it the best possible chance of anenthusiastic reception from editors and readers, shelf spacein a bookshop or a niche in someone’s Kindle. We’ll learnhow to edit your work, identifying structural problems,stylistic tics or other infelicities, and inconsistency in itscountless forms. We’ll consider how to make every wordcount, honing and refining, and what shape your workshould take when it lands on an agent’s desk. Should yousubmit a full manuscript wrapped in Christmas paper? Ora synopsis with a few choice chapters? This workshop willoffer advice and prompt ideas that may enable you to getinto print.Hazel Orme has worked in book publishing for morethan thirty years. She began her career with J. A. Allen,a publisher of horse books, and spent several years withPan Macmillan as its editorial services director. She is nowa freelance editor, living in London with her family andtheir rescued greyhound, ex-track champion Corky. Shehas worked with many of today's high profile authors.Songwritingwith Jimmy Crowley / €160Acute sensitivity is the true springboard of sculpting afine song. During this workshop, we will discuss theediting process and the importance of bringing truthand accessibility to a song. The “flash from the blue”moment of inspiration will be explored, along with themore common signs of poor songwriting. While choruses,hooks and catchy phrases are vital, Jimmy will steer peopleaway from the more obvious paradigms to find their ownvoice.Jimmy Crowley has been a central figure in the Irishfolk scene since the success of his debut album “TheBoys of Fairhill” (1977). With his band Stokers Lodge,he presented street ballads of Cork city complimented byfolk songs of the rural hinterland of Cork and Kerry in anexciting orchestration of instruments. Crowley establishedhimself not just as a tradition bearer, but also as a stylishsongwriter. His song about the sailing ship Asgard, MyLove is a Tall Ship, was used in RTÉ’s documentary filmon the Tall Ships’ Race. Jimmy is also an experiencedmusic tutor. A regular at the famous Catskills workshopin America and also Augusta Irish Celtic Week, Jimmy iscurrently working on his fourteenth album.36