Creative Writing Clinic with Dr Carlo Gébler
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CREATIVE WRITING CLINIC WITH DR CARLO GĒBLER
Friday 3 March 2023, 3-6pm
Are you interested in creative writing? Are you struggling with a manuscript? Would you like an opportunity to seek expert advice on your work? If so, read on …
The ICC is hosting an interactive writing clinic which will be facilitated by well-known author, playwright, memoirist, broadcaster and film-maker Dr. Carlo Gébler. It is intended for anybody who would like guidance from an experienced professional tutor on how to improve their manuscript in a relaxed, friendly and encouraging atmosphere. All genres and forms of writing are welcome (drama, prose, poetry, memoir, long fiction, short fiction, adult, children’s, etc.). Participants will be expected to read out a short section (approximately two hundred words) and present a question (or questions) regarding their manuscript. A group discussion will follow, led by Dr Carlo Gébler. Participants should note he will not be able to read written manuscript material, either during the clinic or subsequently.
The number of participants will be capped at 8.
Date: Friday 3rd March, 3-6pm
Venue: Irish Cultural Centre, 5 Blacks Road, Hammersmith W6 9DT
Admission: £5
3pm-6pm
Tickets: £5
About Carlo Gébler:
Carlo Gébler is the award-winning author of over 30 publications consisting of novels, short stories, plays, memoirs, biographies and historical pieces. His most recent works include Belfast by Moonlight (a masque, 2013), Confessions of a Catastrophist (memoir, 2015), Walking to the Ark (play, 2015), The Projectionist (biography, 2015), The Wing Orderly’s Tales (short stories, 2016), The Innocent of Falkland Road, (novel, 2017), Aesop’s Fables, The Cruelty of the Gods, (with illustrations by Gavin Weston, 2019), Tales We Tell Ourselves, A Selection from the Decameron (2020), and I, Antigone (novel, 2021). His forthcoming work will be One Day a Year (memoir), to be published in the autumn of 2024.
Carlo Gébler was Writer-in-Residence in HMP Maghaberry from 1997 to 2015 and he continues to work as a teacher in the criminal justice system. He currently teaches creative writing at the Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing in Trinity College, Dublin and at the American College in Merrion Square, Dublin. Gébler was born in Dublin and is the elder son of Irish writers Ernest Gébler and Edna O’Brien.
