Glenn Patterson helps celebrate Crosswords – a cross-community, cross-border creative writing project by Fighting Words Belfast and Fighting Words Dublin in North Belfast.
On Friday 3rd June children from Belfast and Dublin gathered at the Girdwood Community Hub with acclaimed author Glenn Patterson to launch an exciting new publication produced collaboratively with five schools participating in the Crosswords project.
Shoppers young and old add to The Longest Story Ever Told at Connswater Shopping Centre
Fighting Words Belfast challenged shoppers of all ages to be part of The Longest Story Ever Told at Connswater Shopping Centre on Saturday 30th April.
Passers-by were given sixty seconds each to come up with ‘what happens next’ in the story.
Fighting Words Belfast celebrates its 1st birthday
One year on from its launch at Queen's Univeristy during Belfast Children's Festival 2015:
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For a cross-community, cross-border creative writing project by Fighting Words Belfast and Fighting Words Dublin.
Crosswords is a programme of sustained engagement in creative writing and shared reading of poetry for children aged 9-10.
Eason invites schools, community groups and volunteers to get involved with Fighting Words.
Eason’s & Son Ltd, are proud to announce a three year sponsorship to support the Fighting Words project in Belfast and invite schools, community groups and volunteers to get involved.
Based in the heart of East Belfast at Skainos, Fighting Words is rapidly establishing itself as a leading creative writing centre for children and young people.
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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.
