A workshop on memoir and life writing is taking place for members of the Women Writers in the New Ireland network on Saturday 7th November, from 10 to 3pm, at the Teachers Club, Parnell Square, Dublin. Esteemed memoir writer Hugo Hamilton is taking the morning session, while Nessa O’Mahony will take the afternoon one.
Enrollment is closed. Watch this space for outcomes of the workshop.
Dear all
A video of the March reading by four members of the WWINI network – Ozotu Rosemary Abu, Cristina Aguilera, Joyce Okpotor and Jane Ovbude – at UCD’s John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies can be viewed on the John Hume Institute website at http://www.ucd.ie/johnhume/summerprogramme/four_poets.html
It was a marvellous reading and this is a great opportunity to experience it.
And poems by Cristina and Rosemary will feature in the forthcoming issue of fabulous literary magazine The Stinging Fly, which is including a feature of writing by the Diaspora. That’s Stinging Fly, Summer 2009, due out in early July.
Dear all
I’m delighted to announce that four members of the WWINI network will be reading as part of the Writing Home series of readings by Writers of the Diaspora at University College Dublin on 26th March. The reading takes place at 1pm in Q014, Quinn Building, UCD and the featured readers are:
Ozutu Rosemary Abu
Cristina Aguilera
Ekaetta-Joyce Okpotor
Jane Ovbude
I hope to see some of you there to support these great women.
All the best
Nessa
We are glad to announce that writers and performers Bisi Adigun and Eilis Ni Dhuibhne will be giving a workshop for members of the Women Writers in the New Ireland network on Saturday 11th October 2008 at the Irish Writers Centre. Further details are available from Nessa O’Mahony and Pamela Akinjobi by emailing them at wwfinc@gmail.com
Funding in support of this event provided by the Migration & Citizenship Research Initiative UCD as part of an Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences project on cross-sector and interdisciplinary research in Irish integration policy and practice.
Dear all
Just to let you know about the success of one of our network members. Cristina Aguilera, orginally from Argentina and now living in Tralee, has had a poem, “Come to my wet side …”, published in the latest issue of The Shop, Issue No 27, Summer 2008. The Shop is a very fine magazine and extremely difficult to get into, as I know myself! Cristina has kindly agreed to me reproducing the poem here.
If other network members have any good news to pass on, just let us know!
all the best
Nessa
Come to my wet side …
Come to my wet side …
come and know the Lorca, Machado.
Come to my wet side…
That I speak the language of Cervantes
That my body is writing in Spanish
But wants to be loved by you…
My sea skin Irishman.
Come to my wet side…
And ride the wild mare of the Pampas
Come to my wet side…
Cross the Atlantic ocean…
And make paths in my body…
Build with your hands,
Build with your lips…
Build with your rustic tender…
Transform my body,
Transform my mood…
Put your seeds in my womb.
Come to my wet side….
In my body made of tango
Come to my wet side…
The day that you love me…
And stay with me.
Cristina Aguilera
The next meeting of the Women Writers in the New Ireland network will take place between 1.30pm and 4pm on Saturday 8th March at the Irish Writers Centre, 19 Parnell Square.
There will then follow a reading by members of the network to celebrate International Woman’s Day. We hope to include a web broadcast of the reading on the international ezine Her Circle. All are welcome to attend the reading.
Dear all
the next meeting of the Women Writers in the New Ireland network will take place on Saturday 8th December, from 1pm to 3.30pm in the Teachers’ Club, Parnell Square, Dublin 1.
