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Students will be asked to begin with a blank page and develop a piece of fiction over the weekend. This may be the beginning of a novel, short story or other form. The course will concentrate on the process of writing through various key phases such as experience, event, memory, story and fiction.

Michael Harding is a novelist and playwright. His most recent novel is Bird in the Snow (Lilliput, 2008) and his play The Tinker's Curse, is currently on tour. He has been writer in residence at Trinity College, Dublin and writer in association at the Abbey Theatre. He writes a weekly column, Displaced in Mullingar, for the Irish Times and is a member of Aosdána.