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Solas Writer’s Retreat – SOLD OUT
February 25 2022 @ 7:00 pm - February 27 2022 @ 2:00 pm
From €320
An immersive weekend of poetry, landscape & stories in the heart of the Donegal Gaeltacht
With Annemarie Ní Churreáin
25th – 27th Feb 2022
This event has now reached full capacity. We are looking into running the event later this year depending on interest. If you are interested and would like to be put on a waiting list for this, please contact info@thesonghouseireland.com with your details.
The Song House is delighted to present a special weekend retreat for writers of poetry at all levels. Hosted by Donegal poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin, the programme will feature poetry workshops, readings and one-to-one feedback sessions. Unfolding over two nights and three days, this retreat will offer poets a space to explore, reflect, share, dream and(re)connect with your creative voice in the lap of Errigal Mountain, and among the echoes and shadows of the ancient mythological gods. Solas, meaning ‘light’, is the theme for this weekend and we’ll be illuminating page, space and imagination through language, literature and community.
Provisional programme (details to be confirmed)
• Friday night – welcome reception with readings
• Saturday morning – creative writing workshop
• Saturday afternoon- visit to The Poison Glen with a workshop
• Sunday morning – morning event/ Farewell
Each participant will also have an opportunity over the weekend to meet one-to-one with facilitator Annemarie Ní Churreáin for a 30 minute discussion about writing or practice.
Participants are expected to bring writing materials. All hand-outs and photocopies will be provided by the workshop organisers.
Accommodation is available at The Song House (with a limited number of single rooms, and some shared rooms) or nearby locally.
Pricing
| Bunk Room | (with 3 or 4 people) €320 per person |
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| Standard | shared twin room €350 per person |
| En Suite | shared twin room €390 per person |
| Camping | in the Song House garden €285 |
| Non-residential | (includes all meals) €270 |
Annemarie Ní Churreáin is a poet & writer from the Donegal Gaeltacht. Her publications include Bloodroot (Doire Press 2017) and The Poison Glen (The Gallery Press 2021). She is a recipient of the Next Generation Artist Award from the Irish Arts Council and a co-recipient of The Markievicz Award. Ní Churreáin is a former literary fellow of Akademie Schloss Solitude, Germany and a former artist-in-residence at Jack Kerouac House Orlando, Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris and Maynooth University of Ireland. The Yale Review surmised that “Ní Churreáin often captures a whole world of cultural and historical implications in a single, simple, but metaphorically rich image.” The Los Angeles Review of Books states “that Ní Churreáin can condense the prototypical life of a young Irish woman into half a page while sustaining the poem’s impact is testament to her ability as a storyteller, the vividness of her language, and the universality of the portraits she is painting…”. An Irish Times review noted Ní Churreáin’s voice full of ‘musicality’ ‘sensuousness’ and ‘fearlessness’.