Freedom To Write Project 2025
@FreeToWrite2024
A cross-border creative writing project running throughout 2025. This is led by @The_JHS & @PENIreland. With thanks to the Shared Island Civic Society Fund.
FREEDOM TO WRITE 2025 HAS OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED!! Our 20 travelled from across the island to take workshops in the @TheMACBelfast! Thank you so much to everyone who came and congratulations again on your award! ✍️🌎 See you in July for the #JHISS25! @The_JHS @PENIreland
Ladssss... WHAT A LINE-UP OF FACILITATORS (if we do say so ourselves!) 😉 Our FTWers will arrive in Armagh tomorrow, and will kick off their week of events and workshops! Safe journey everyone and roll on the inspiration!! ✍️🔥
Thank you to @comartspartner for the lovely write-up in July's issue of The Monthly!
The Monthly: Community Arts Edition - July 2025 - mailchi.mp/capartscentre.… This issue, we talk to novelist & playwright, Byddi Lee and talk to the writer & poet, Michele Seminara. @Byddi @seminaramichele #TheMonthly #Community @ArtsCouncilNI #NationalLottery @belfastcc
Next Wednesday, at the Irish Writers Centre, @EMcSkeane starts a new afternoon course, The Next Steps in Poetry. Have a listen to Liz talk about the course here and book your place via the link below irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/next-s…
Discussion & Debate at #JHISS25! 🔥
@The_JHS Join me for a discussion about where we've been, where we are and where we are headed...Integration Integration Integration. A discussion hosted by The John Hewitt International Summer School.
LISDOON NIRVANA is SOLD OUT at The Studio, Market Place (28 July) but fear not- it's moving next door to the Main Auditorium! We STRONGLY suggest you book early for this one as sadly, we don't have an even bigger venue to move it to! @caffe1_frankie visitarmagh.com/2025-07-28t203…
Team #JHISS25!!
The countdown is on! #JHISS25 prep today in The MAC! 😍💪 @The_JHS @FreeToWrite2024 @TheMACBelfast
A thrill to see @WednesdayErskin venture into long-form work with her compelling debut novel, The Benefactors. Dazzlingly structured, written with honesty, humanity, quietly angry compassion & a flair for the intimate and the dramatic. Perfect material ripe for TV. @SceptreBooks
Can’t wait Alex!!!
Can’t wait to mosey down to Armagh for the @The_JHS Summer School, where I’ll be chatting to @WednesdayErskin about her wonderful novel, THE BENEFACTORS. July 31, 13:30. See you there!
And we can't wait to see you and Wendy next Thursday, Alexander! #JHISS25 #Literature
Can’t wait to mosey down to Armagh for the @The_JHS Summer School, where I’ll be chatting to @WednesdayErskin about her wonderful novel, THE BENEFACTORS. July 31, 13:30. See you there!
Double bill of #JHISS25 at @bbcradioulster today! Prof Pete Shirlow is on @BBCTalkback ahead of #JHISS25 opening talk "Is NI Finished?" At 6pm our own Tony Kennedy & #JHISS25 Crime Fiction mastermind Stuart Neville join Kathy Clugston on The Ticket We really spoil you! 😎
ANNOUNCING BEBE ASHLEY AS OUR FREEDOM TO WRITE / JHISS 2025 FACILITATOR FOR POETRY! 😍🔥 @The_JHS @PENIreland @_bebeashley_
We popped down to the The Market Place Theatre & Arts Centre today! Look at these beautiful, illustrated maps for our JHISS Bursary awardees and FTWers! Time to explore Ard Mhacha! 😍😍 @The_JHS @PENIreland @visit_armagh
Are you ready for some more exciting news?? 😍👏 During the JHISS 2025, our prose-ers will be led by one of the most engaging, and excited writers on this island and in the world... @paul_mc_veigh! They will get three, 2-hour MASTERCLASSES! @The_JHS @PENIreland
The countdown is on! #JHISS25 prep today in The MAC! 😍💪 @The_JHS @FreeToWrite2024 @TheMACBelfast
Announcing our Poetry Facilitator for Workshop 2... The incredible, Stephen Sexton! 🔥👏 Our poets will take a 3-hour workshop with Stephen this Sunday in the The Charlemont Arms Hotel, Armagh 💚 @The_JHS @PENIreland
DRUMROLL PLEASEEEE... 🥁🥁🔥 Introducing our Workshop 2 : 'Expression through Influences' prose facilitator... the FABULOUS, Louise Nealon! 👏