Dingle Writing Courses was established in 1996 by Nicholas McLachlan and Abigail Joffe to provide an opportunity for writers to gather and learn from established authors and from each other in a supportive and stimulating atmosphere that only a residential course can provide.

Since then Dingle Writing Courses has welcomed participants from around the world, many of whom return more than once.

Leland Bardwell Pat Boran Clare Boylan Colette Bryce Marina Carr Evelyn Conlon Ita Daly Malachy Doyle Michael Donaghy Paul Durcan Patricia Duncker Anne Enright

Aubrey Flegg Carlo Gébler Michael Harding Jennifer Johnston Claire Kilroy Brian Leyden James McAuley Eoin McNamee Paula Meehan Cole Moreton Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill Mary O'Donnell

Andrew O'Hagan Mary O'Malley Kate O'Riordan Cathal Ó Searcaigh Julie Parsons Maurice Riordan Mary Russell Eva Salzman Eamonn Sweeney Kate Thompson Niall Williams Macdara Woods Enda Wyley

Past courses include poetry, fiction (novel and short story), travel writing, memoir, scriptwriting, writing for children, writing the landscape and a special course drawing inspiration from the landscape and literature of the Blasket Islands.

We can organise tailor made courses for writers groups, schools or students on a creative writing programme.

Dingle Writing Courses is part of a national network of organisations for writers which includes Poetry Ireland and the Irish Writers' Centre