You can now attend special modules as part of a year long course at MKCW. Pursue a particular area of writing and explore several key sections. Includes videos, support reading and access to a weekly creative workshop of your choice. All also available as standalone courses. Linkd included below.
Creative Writing: MONDAY MEMOIR
10-11 every Monday Morning
Start writing your memoir in this specialist class. We will explore different types of memoir and also touch into areas of biography, autobiography and fictional memoir. What is the power of memory? How do we work with real people, places and things, how do we treat our lived experiences with sensitivity and effectiveness? How do we find a home for our work so readers of the world can share it? Submit up to 2,000 words each week and receive feedback. Includes support readings. This is a powerful and enjoyable new course from MKCW – Committed to Excellence. Course Outline
All mediums/levels welcome. Projects at any stage.
Via Zoom – Enquire about In-Person options in your area at info@martinkeaveney.com/0876007100
Starts Monday 17th April 2023 10am
x12 weeks includes weekly workshop + 10,000 words editorial response + LIVEWRITE full access – €289.99 Book here
Creative Writing: TUESDAY THRILLER
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Do you want to build a career as a professional writer? One of the best places to do that is writing thriller and crime novels. Start your journey in this specialist course where we look at various forms of the genre, including detective novels, action thrillers and spy dramas. What is it that that wills secure a publishing contract? What do we need to do to enthrall a commercial agent? Submit up to 2,000 words each week and receive feedback. Includes support readings. This is a superb opportunity for new or improving thriller writers for MKCW – Committed to Excellence.
All mediums/levels welcome. Projects at any stage.
Via Zoom – Enquire about In-Person options in your area at info@martinkeaveney.com/0876007100
Starts Tuesday 18th April 2023 3pm
x12 weeks includes weekly workshop + 10,000 words editorial response + LIVEWRITE full access – €289.99 Book here
Creative Writing: PLAYWRITING
3-4pm every Tuesday Afternoon
Do you want to build a career as a professional playwright? This is one of the oldest and most exciting artforms. See your scenes on paper ultimately come alive on stage! We go through the various forms of theatrical story-telling and performance, including Greek theatre, medieval parades, renaissance, Jacobean plays, romanticisms, realism, modernism and postmodernist practices. We also focus on various conventions in writing for live performance and assist in preparing your work for submission to production companies. This is a really exiting journey through a wide range of theatrical writing. You will submit scripts for the stage each week and receive detailed feedback. Includes support readings. This is a superb opportunity for new or improving thriller writers for MKCW – Committed to Excellence.
All mediums/levels welcome. Projects at any stage (no pun intended!) Full course outline
Via Zoom – Enquire about In-Person options in your area at info@martinkeaveney.com/0876007100
Starts Tuesday 18th April 2023 3pm
x12 weeks includes weekly workshop + editorial response on Final Project of 60 page stage sample plus full play synopsis + LIVEWRITE full access – €289.99 Book here
Creative Writing: WEDNESDAY WONDER
10-11 every Wednesday Morning
Think you can entice readers into another world or even universe? Have you the imagination to drive viewers wild with wonder? Start here with this specialist course which explores the parameters of scifi and fantasy at a really effective, practical level. We look at the key elements that achieve the goals of any sci fi or fantasy project and look to achieve a publishable proposal that will engage any industry reader. Submit up to 2,000 words each week and receive feedback. Includes support readings.This is a super opportunity to achieve your goals as a sci fi or fantasy writer – delivered by MKCW – Committed to Excellence.
All mediums/levels welcome. Projects at any stage.
Via Zoom – Enquire about In-Person options in your area at info@martinkeaveney.com/0876007100
Starts Wednesday 19th April 2023 6-7pm
x12 weeks includes weekly workshop + 10,000 words editorial response + LIVEWRITE full access – €289.99 via Zoom Book here
Creative Writing: Commercial Novels
This specialist course covers all genre novels that fit into a commercial category. It is designed to help writers who are writing for a wide audience. We will look at the differences between a draft and a polished commercial novel. We will explore the vital elements that convince agents and publishers that your manuscript is one that will be a commercial success. Writers should have a specific project in advance. The course will be primarily focussed on the development of writer’s projects for the commercial marketplace, however we will use some novels as a case study. Submit up to 2,000 words each week and receive feedback. Includes support readings.This is a super opportunity to achieve your goals as a commercial novelist – delivered by MKCW – Committed to Excellence.
All mediums/levels welcome. Projects from early draft stage onwards.
Via Zoom – Enquire about In-Person options in your area at info@martinkeaveney.com/0876007100
Starts Wednesday 19th April 2023 12pm
x12 weeks includes weekly workshop + 10,000 words editorial response + LIVEWRITE full access – €289.99 via Zoom Book here
Creative Writing: Short Fiction
One of the most satisfying areas of creative writing is short fiction. It is also a powerful route into professional creative writing. Explore image-driven writing, and poetic prose, tell thought-provoking stories or compose within popular genres. Now you can attend a really high-quality course that specifically brings you through several types of short form writing, including the short story, flash fiction, micro-fiction, prose-poetry and short form in several genres. The course caters for those simply wanting to write explore this form as a hobby, but also for those intending to develop a career as a professional author. Submit up to 2,000 words each week and receive feedback. Includes support readings. Start here with this a super opportunity to achieve your goals as a short story writer – delivered by MKCW – Committed to Excellence.
All mediums/levels welcome. Projects at any stage.
Starts Wednesday 19th April 2023 3pm
Via Zoom – Enquire about In-Person options in your area at info@martinkeaveney.com/0876007100
x12 weeks includes weekly workshop + 10,000 words editorial response + LIVEWRITE full access –
€289.99 Book here
Creative Writing: Writing for Children
Do you want to build a career as a writer of children’s literature? Now you can attend a really high-quality course that specifically brings you through each stage of writing for children, engaging with all age groups and provide high level attention to your writing project. The course caters for those simply wanting to write stories for their children (or grandchildren) but also for those intending to develop a career as a children’s book author. Submit up to 2,000 words each week and receive feedback. Includes support readings. Start here with this a super opportunity to achieve your goals as a children’s book writer – delivered by MKCW – Committed to Excellence.
All mediums/levels welcome. Projects at any stage.
Starts Wednesday 19th April 2023 7-8pm
Via Zoom – Enquire about In-Person options in your area at info@martinkeaveney.com/0876007100
x12 weeks includes weekly workshop + 10,000 words editorial response + LIVEWRITE full access – €289.99 Book here
Creative Writing: THURSDAY TERROR
10-11 every Thursday Morning
Do you want to strike fear in to readers? Have you considered a career as a horror writer? Start here with this specialist course which explores the parameters of this exciting area at a really effective, practical level. We look at the key elements that achieve the goals of any horror project and look to achieve a publishable proposal that will engage any industry reader. We will explore psychological horror, gore and other cross-genre proposals. Submit up to 2,000 words each week and receive feedback. Includes support readings. This is a super opportunity to achieve your goals as a horror writer – delivered by MKCW – Committed to Excellence.
All mediums/levels welcome. Projects at any stage.
Starts Thursday 20th April 2023 10am
Via Zoom – Enquire about In-Person options in your area
x12 weeks includes weekly workshop + 10,000 words editorial response + LIVEWRITE full access – €289.99 Book here
Writing the Past
12.00-1.00pm every Thursday
Would you like to transport reader or viewers into the past? Do you like the idea of writing within a famous period in history? With this specialist course, you can learn powerful research techniques and explore drafting a creative project within a rigid framework of events. Opens to historical fiction writers and also those compiling any historical project. Submit up to 2,000 words each week and receive feedback. Includes support readings. Start here with this a super opportunity to achieve your goals as a historical writer – delivered by MKCW – Committed to Excellence.
All mediums/levels welcome. Projects at any stage.
VIa Zoom – Enquire about In-Person options in your area at info@martinkeaveney.com/0876007100
Starts Thursday 20th April 2023 at 12pm.
x12 weeks includes weekly workshop + 10,000 words editorial response + LIVEWRITE full access – €289.99 Book here
Creative Writing: FUNNY FRIDAY
10-11am every Friday morning.
Do you want to build a career as a professional writer? One of the best places to do that is in comedy. Progress through a variety of options for those wishing to work in humour, including stand-up, TV, theatre, and many others. Start here with this specialist course which explores this area of creative writing at a really effective, practical level. We look at the nuances of comedy writing, the challenges of audiences and look to achieve a publishable proposal that will engage an industry reader/audience. Submit up to 2,000 words each week and receive feedback. Includes support readings. This is a super opportunity to achieve your goals as a comic writer – delivered by MKCW – Committed to Excellence.
All mediums/levels welcome. Projects at any stage.
Starts Friday 21st April 2023 10am
Via Zoom – Enquire about In-Person options in your area at info@martinkeaveney.com/0876007100
x12 weeks includes weekly workshop + editorial response on Final Project of 10,000 words + LIVEWRITE full access – €289.99 Book here
Creative Writing: SCREENWRITING
12-1pm every Friday.
Writing movies and TV scripts is perhaps one of the most exciting areas of creative writing. Do you like the idea of your characters and scene entertaining audiences on the big or small screen? Make the first steps toward achieving high level screenplays for film or television is this specialist course. Beginners and experienced scriptwriters welcome. All genres accepted. We look at the process of scriptwriting, formats, adaptations, different formats such as animation, developing characters and effective storylines. We also look at financing and getting your work produced. Submit up to 20 script pages each week and receive feedback. Includes support readings + Final Project of 120 script pages. This is a super opportunity to achieve your goals as a scriptwriter – delivered by MKCW – Committed to Excellence. Course Outline
All levels welcome. Projects at any stage.
Starts Friday 21st April 2023 12pm (Other times available)
VIa Zoom – Enquire about In-Person options in your area at info@martinkeaveney.com/0876007100
x12 weeks includes weekly workshop + editorial response on Final Project of 25 Script pages sample+treatment + LIVEWRITE full access – €289.99 Book here
SUBMISSIONS CLINIC
5.30-6.30pm every Friday
Submitting writing is an incredibly long and arduous process for all writers. Would you be interested in a weekly submissions clinic session? You will definitely submit more work!
Clinic content:
- Creating your personal list
- Sending effective correspondence
- Use of specific platforms
- Effective responses to requests
- Maintaining a regular submissions practice
- Magazine customs
- Journal customs
- Submission etiquette
- Other specialised aspects of submissions
During the session, we will also work on submitting to each one of your respective lists. We will review the weekly subs, discuss responses and further submissions strategies as we progress toward getting your work to the readers of the world. The focus of each session will be solely on the submission process. The objective of the clinic is to increase your weekly submissions to industry, whether that is an agent, publisher or magazine editor, thereby significantly increasing the likelihood of publication. Also open to screenwriters & playwrights. I will help you personalise your query, bio and improve your sample where required.
All mediums/levels welcome. Projects should be ready for submission.
This is a super opportunity to achieve your goals as a writer – delivered by MKCW – Committed to Excellence.
Via Zoom – Enquire about In-Person options in your area at info@martinkeaveney.com/0876007100
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x12 weeks includes weekly workshop + 10,000 words editorial response + LIVEWRITE full access – €289.99 Book here
1-1 MENTORSHIP
Would you like high-level personalised attention to your writing journey? Meet Martin or Associate each week for a 30 minute 1-1 session in Zoom or In-Person at a mutually convenient time and discuss your progress, your weekly submission and your options in publish or producing. Includes weekly written feedback, a final project submission of 5,000 words which will receive full editorial feedback, one weekly workshop option plus full access to LIVEWRITE
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