Write your Faery Tale

Workshop in Arklow Solas Healing Centre Saturday 12th October

Looking to explore your storytelling skills? Join Siofra O'Donovan at Solas Healing in Arklow on Saturday 12th October…

INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP @ SOLAS HEALING ON 12TH OCTOBER 11.30-3.30pm 

https://solasceremonies.ie/

ARKLOW Y14YW66

BOOKINGS AND DETAILS 0877510972

healingsolas@gmail.com 

Fairytales hold a special kind of magic because they tap into universal themes of transformation, resilience, and hope. They often feature characters overcoming great odds, which can inspire readers and listeners to find strength and courage in their own lives. The symbolic nature of fairytales allows individuals to explore complex emotions and situations in a safe and imaginative way.

Síofra O’Donovan is a published author and experienced writing workshop facilitator. Writer in Residence in Louth  (Arts Council) from 2004-6, she has had residencies at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre and the Dorothy Hicks Award for Yaddo, New York (2001), Literary Bursary ( Arts Council 2001)  Wicklow Arts Award  (2019), eight Travel Awards from the Arts Council and the Professional Development Award in 2020.  

She is on the Writers in Schools and Writers in Prisons panels. She  published Malinski, (Lilliput Press, 2000),  and Pema and the Yak, (Pilgrims Books, 2006). Lost In Shambhala, (Amazon 2016,  Seagull Press 2023). A biography of Kevin Barry, Yours Til Hell Freezes, was published by Currach Books in 2020.  She wrote from 2000-9 for the Irish Times and the Irish Examiner.

She is working on books set in 12th Century France and England, Dark Forest and the King of the North Wind. The research for Dark Forest in France was supported by the Arts Council. 

TESTIMONIALS for Writing Workshops

"I can’t speak highly enough of Siofra or the Heroine’s Journey course – salve for the soul I didn’t know I needed! It allowed space for a wonderful way to look at the world, one which never failed to land with surprise and delight (even when dark). It has borne me gently around and left me facing the other way – the way that I maybe needed to face all along – and always with lightness, laughter and a great deal of support, very lightly worn so you don’t even know it’s been there until later. Thank you Siofra!" - DELIA, HEROINE'S JOURNEY 2023

"Siofra's writing course "Heroine's Journey" opened up for me another world of metaphores, myths and stories that gave me language and symbols to write about my own inner process of re-connecting with my inner feminine. I love how the course was laid out, each step taking me deeper and closer to myself. The meditations that Siofra offered each week took me gently yet immidiately right into that place within where my head has no access. From there the words were just pouring onto pages effortlessly.I feel deep gratitude for this journey" . M. SZPILKA, HEROINE'S JOURNEY 2019

“I found this course to be extraordinary. I thought it would be useful to help me find a structure to the stories I write. It was much more, it was quite a personal journey; challenging, rewarding, inspirational. Siofra creates an atmosphere of such creativity, a safe space to write, a place where we could push past boundaries and self-doubt. After one session, I felt inspired to write at home, so I sat and wrote a short story called A Dance with Time. Subsequently, that story was longlisted for the Colm Tobin Short Story." Zandra C, THE HERO'S JOURNEY, 2019

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