From October 2024-June 2025, we will work with community groups in Belfast, Newry, Armagh, Louth, Monaghan, Dublin and Cork. The project is open to young people aged 15-24 and each programme will be delivered by professional artists.
We’re looking for a multi-talented solution-seeker to work part-time (22.5 hours a week) to coordinate the delivery of a large-scale peace-building youth consortium project, A Shared Agenda for Peace...
Last week our two Write Quest groups from Fighting Words in Dublin and Fighting Words NI in Belfast came together in Fighting Words NI's creative writing hub.
The Special EU Programmes Body has announced new funding awards from the €1.14bn PEACEPLUS Programme. A total of €13,321,097 has been approved to support a range of projects delivering formal and non-formal shared learning.
Our new project, Write Quest, will run from 29th October to 14th December on Tuesday evenings (4.15pm to 5.45pm) and two Saturday field trips! Its open to 13-18-year-olds of all experience and ability levels. You don’t have to already be a writer.
Guthanna Óga - Young Voices is the youth advisory panel for Fighting Words and Fighting Words Northern Ireland. These young people are the most important advisors to our staff and board, not only because they are responsible for bringing the voices of young people into a room of adults, but also because they are our only official panel that spans the whole island of Ireland. Guthanna Óga - Young Voices brings together the perspectives and experiences from all of Fighting Words centres.
Attention teachers!
Bookings are now open for all primary and post-primary schools for September – December. Bookings will re-open in November for January – June.
Take a look through this photo book from our first Starling Revival summer camp which took place in July.
On 29 July 2024, Taoiseach, Simon Harris TD, and Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin TD, announced the awarding of funding to 6 successful Creative Youth on a Shared Island projects as part of the Shared Island dimension to the Creative Ireland Programme 2023-2027, including a project with Fighting Words, Fighting Words NI, and Graffiti Theatre Company.
Whether you're a regular or just starting out on your Write Club journey, this social is a great way to get to know your fellow Write Club members and have some chill, summer fun.
