First meeting, new title

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!

~ by Nessa O'Mahony on October 19, 2007.