ScriptJam Playwriting Workshop with Colm Keegan and Heather Martin

Belfast Playwrights

An innovative full day workshop from writers Colm Keegan &amp; Heather Martin supporting writers seeking inspiration through collaboration.

23 Fountain St

Join playwrights Colm Keegan and Heather Martin for an innovative full-day workshop that supports writers seeking inspiration through collaboration.After two successful ScriptJams in Dublin and Belfast, they are returning to offer this workshop for free, thanks to Belfast Learning Festival's support.The day includes collaborative exercises, writing sessions, and an opportunity to share your new work at the end of the day. ScriptJam is an ideal opportunity to meet other playwrights, and to find inspiration for your next work. We especially encourage participants from marginalised and working class communities. Writers of all experience levels welcome.In collaboration with Voicing the Void CIC and Belfast Learning Festival. About the facilitators:Colm Keegan is an award-winning Dublin poet, an acclaimed playwright, and one of Ireland’s leading writing facilitators, empowering new voices and inspiring creativity for individuals and organisations throughout Ireland. He is the writer of two poetry collections (Randomer and Don’t Go There), four plays (Three Men Talking About Things They Kinda Know About, For Saoirse, The Process, and Something Worth Saying), with numerous poems, short stories and articles published in anthologies, on radio, and various print outlets such as The journal.ie and the Irish Times. Colm has been nominated for the Little Gem Fringe Theatre award and Fishamble New Irish Writing Award. He was the winner of the All Ireland Poetry Slam and has been shortlisted four times for the Hennessy Award, for both poetry and fiction. His work has been commissioned by RTE, The Abbey Theatre, Axis Ballymun, TUD &amp; Maynooth University. Heather Martin is an Australian playwright, director, and dramaturg now living in Belfast. As a playwright Heather has had seven plays produced across Australia, Ireland, England, and Switzerland. She is published by Australian Plays Transform and in 2016 was shortlisted for Queensland Theatre's Young Playwright of the Year. She is the founder of Belfast Playwrights, and hosts the monthly writing group Scribe. She holds a Bachelor of Journalism and a Bachelor of Arts (Writing/Drama) from The University of Queensland.

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