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On Tuesday 25th August Fighting Words Belfast joined in with the Eastside Arts Festival festivities, welcoming children to Skainos for an afternoon of story-writing, illustrating and reading.
Have you a passion for writing? Ever dreamed of getting your stories recognised?
It is time to unleash your creative writing skills, put pen to paper or get tapping on those keyboards and get involved in an exciting new competition.
Herbert Smith Freehills in association with National Trust, Young at Art and Arts & Business Northern Ireland, are thrilled to announce that the Towering Tales Creative Writing Competition 2015 is open for entries.
A book co-written by children at Fighting Words Belfast
Saturday 12th July saw the launch of One Story, Many Endings, a book co-written by children at Fighting Words Belfast in collaboration with over 200 children from 12 different countries around the world.
The Fighting Words Belfast team would like to say a massive thank-you to all the Business in the Community members who kindly contributed to the project at the awards ceremony in the Waterfront Hall last Thursday.
The generous donations raised during the raffle of six handwritten framed artworks containing 'first words' pieces by Northern Irish writers and a set of nine signed novels by NI author David Park totalled £4,288.
Find out what Primary children at the first workshop thought of their experience.
On Thursday 23rd April Fighting Words Belfast ran its first full-length story-writing workshop.
It was attended by 22 p.6/p.7s from Ballysillan Primary school and 5 newly trained volunteers.
Well-known names from the Irish literary world including Roddy Doyle and Glenn Patterson launch Fighting Words Belfast project at the Seamus Heaney Centre this afternoon.
This afternoon (Tuesday 10th March, 3pm) will see the launch of Fighting Words Belfast, the city's exciting new creative writing project for children and young people. Writers Glenn Patterson and Roddy Doyle , two of the project's patrons, will be joined by guests at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen's University Belfast to celebrate the launch.
