Category: Writing
Inner Light Launch at Vicar Street
Vicar Street Extraordinary night at Vicar Street. Music and words. Inner Light was launched by Paul Muldoon and copies flew out the door! This book is the culmination of six months of workshops carried out in Behan Square, Rathmines and on Zoom with Ukrainian women writers, telling their stories of fleeing the war and settling… Continue reading Inner Light Launch at Vicar Street
The link to purchase Inner Light (which I edited!) All proceeds to Ukraine.
Irish Times Online Inner Light
Link to full piece online: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2023/04/23/they-drop-lovely-memories-into-a-world-filled-with-destruction-and-death-ukrainian-women-in-ireland-on-the-war-leaving-home-and-moving-here/
Inner Light Book of Ukrainian Memoirs.
In today's Irish Times Weekend magazine, there's a 4-page spread about the book of Ukrainian memoir pieces that I've been working on for the past 6 months in conjuction with Roddy Doyle's Fighting Words. I volunteered as a mentor and worked with the Ukrainian women writers in Fighting Words in Behan Square, in the Ukrainian… Continue reading Inner Light Book of Ukrainian Memoirs.
PODCAST!!
https://sharonthompson.substack.com/p/building-a-writing-cv-and-resilience?r=22vq3d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web#details Link to full episode.
Cork Echo
RTE RADIO ONE KEYWORDS – THE SEA
My piece about the sea and the Poolbeg chimneys. Listen back at the link below. My piece closes the show. On at 23.41. https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22216522/
Creative Writing Workshop at DCU
Love volunteering with Fighting Words. This week it took me to All Hallows Campus, DCU to be part of a workshop with the MA in Creative Writing students.
The Sparkly Shell 