Online Workshops

It’s not always possible to travel to a one day workshop. Inkwell have developed a series of online writing workshops offering distance learning that will give you the guidance, tips and technique you need, plus positive encouragement at times to suit you.

Online writing workshops enable you to engage with bestselling authors and leading industry professionals, developing your skills through lecture, exercises and one to one critique. Each author will work with you to improve your writing at your own level.

Every online workshop is carefully programmed to ensure that, once completed, you get a tangible return for your time and investment, pushing you to explore your creativity and giving you essential techniques to improve your writing.

Online workshops are available on demand and run for a period of weeks enabling you to fit your writing in around your lifestyle. If you have any questions about your chosen workshop don’t hesitate to get in touch and we will forward your query to the course facilitator.

How does it work?

On receipt of payment for your chosen workshop, your tutor will welcome you to the course and send an introduction and the opening course unit.  Complete the exercises set and return to your facilitator with any questions you may have. The next course unit will be forwarded to you with the feedback from the previous unit, enabling you to work at your own pace to complete the course. It is recommended that tasks are completed weekly to ensure you receive the best learning experience, but not all of us can manage that, and you can make your own arrangement with your tutor.

Working one to one in this way you build a relationship with your tutor, who will identify your strengths and weaknesses as the course continues and offer guidance where necessary.

Currently Available Workshops


From Fiction to Feature Writing

This course is for writers who want to learn the rudiments of journalism.  It will teach you how to source ideas; how to develop the ideas and pitch them to editors; how to research an article; how to interview; and how to construct and write a clear, accurate feature. In…

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The National Emerging Writer Programme: Telling the Story

The National Emerging Writer Programme is joint project between Writing.ie and Dublin UNESCO City of Literature, and aimed at new and experienced writers looking to improve their craft. With four Nobel Laureates and four Booker Prize winners, Ireland has produced some of the finest writers in the world  – and…

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The National Emerging Writer Programme: Revising, Rewriting and Overcoming Obstacles

The National Emerging Writer Programme is joint project between Writing.ie and Dublin UNESCO City of Literature, and aimed at new and experienced writers looking to improve their craft. With four Nobel Laureates and four Booker Prize winners, Ireland has produced some of the finest writers in the world  – and…

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The National Emerging Writer Programme: Starting to Write

The National Emerging Writer Programme is joint project between Writing.ie and Dublin UNESCO City of Literature, and aimed at new and experienced writers looking to improve their craft. With four Nobel Laureates and four Booker Prize winners, Ireland has produced some of the finest writers in the world  – and…

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Writing TV Treatments

Do you regularly spot news items and think someone should make a TV series out of it? Do your fingers itch to write storylines for programmes you love? Or does the opposite happen? Are you a writer struggling to find ideas you can work with? If so, then this is…

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Introduction to Writing Memoir

Maggie Smith Hurt received her MFA (in poetry with a strong focus in fiction and creative non-fiction) from Hunter College in New York City where she was also a teaching fellow from 2001 to 2003. 
She moved to Dublin in 2003 and taught writing at University College Dublin and the…

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Writing Romance

The Observer newspaper reported that Mills and Boon books in UK bookshops sell at the rate of roughly one every 6.6 seconds. And, according to the Romance Writers of America: Romance fiction was the largest share of the consumer market in 2009 at 13.2 percent. Romance fiction generated $1.36 billion…

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How To Promote Your Book

Your book has been published; your friends have read it and told you it’s perfect; now all that’s left is to get it out there into the wider world. But how? How To Promote Your Book will show you exactly that.

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The Art of Editing

You’ve spent a long time on your book. Before you send it out there into the wide world, it vitally important that it’s error-free and the best possible reflection of your talent. This four-week course will help you with the basics of editing, so that when your agent is reading…

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Writing Historical Fiction

Ever wanted to spice up the past with your imagination? Perhaps get the know-how on researching and writing a historical back story for a contemporary novel? Maybe you’re interested in detective or fantasy with a historical twist? Ever wondered about the Victorian era; the Irish Famine, the time of the…

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Blogging And Beyond

Do you want to start a blog but are not sure how to do it? Are you uncertain as to the benefits a blog and online presence can bring to you as a writer? Do you have a blog which you would like to take to the next level, develop…

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Write that Book: Step by Step

Have you always wanted to write a book but don’t know where to start? Do you have an idea for a story but don’t know how to develop it? This interactive course will bring the teaching and writing skills of bestselling author Tracy Culleton right to your desk to guide…

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