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.
Dear all
Network member Beth Morrissey is giving a course on freelance writing for UCD Adult Education Centre starting in January. It includes hints on how to get writing assignments, which should be of interest to our many members involved in journalism and writing. You can get more detail on the course on the UCD adult ed website at http://www.ucd.ie/adulted
WWINI member Mary Malone has just published her second novel, All You Need Is Love, which will be launched in Eason’s Bookshop, Ballincollig, Co. Cork, on Tuesday 30th October at 6.30pm. All You Need Is Love is published by Dodder Books and you can get more details by visiting Mary’s website at http://www.marymalone.ie
The Women Writers in Immigrant and New Communities network had its first meeting in Dublin on Saturday 13th October and decided to change its name. We are now called Women Writers in the New Ireland as we wish to include all women writers living in Ireland, both those who have arrived in the recent past and those who were born here or who have lived here for many years. The idea is to reflect the fact that the Ireland we live in today is “New”; it is very different to the one many of us grew up in … it is multicultural, includes many ethnicities and many different creative approaches. We believe that the women writers from each of the new communities living here have much to contribute to discussion about what writing is and what is important to us as women writers.
So here are our aims as stated at our first meeting:
OUR AIMS
• to provide and circulate information for and between women writers in Ireland and within the migrant and new communities
• to organize seminars, workshops, readings and other events devoted to the practice and experience of women writers
• to share facts and ideas, develop skills, build collaborations, and create action plans to amplify the voices of women writers from migrant and new communities
• to provide a forum and opportunity for dialogue between members of this network and other women writers in Ireland
• to produce publications of writings to give a better understanding and recognition of women writer’s working and living conditions
WHO CAN JOIN
• Women writers in Ireland
• Women writers from other women writer’s organizations and new communities
• Women aspiring to be writers from
Every woman is welcome, regardless of age, gender, class, race, ethnicity or religion
Want a conversation with other women writers?
CONTACT
Email: wwfinc@gmail.com
Nessa O’Mahony – 0879309670 nessaomahony@iol.ie
Pamela Toyin Akinjobi – 0874179640 pamelatoyin@yahoo.com
Anne Mulhall: anne.mulhall@ucd.ie, Alice Feldman: alice.feldman@ucd.ie
WWINI
BRIDGING GAPS BETWEEN WOMEN WRITERS IN IRELAND!
