Invitation to Rohingya community

At these training sessions expert presenters will share their skills, knowledge and expertise about descriptive writing, creative writing and poetry. The goal of this training series is to provide participants with the creative encouragement and knowledge of skills that will help them to improve their writing skills. The series will involve three 90 minute online sessions taking place during March and April 2024.
Participation is open to everyone and each session will include live Rohingya translation by a professional interpreter.

JOIN SESSIONS USING THIS LINK:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83562565694?pwd=BNPXAZ3kQhd0ikjklqMxPokXZmvNM3.1
(Zoom link for all sessions; Passcode: 292731)

Training 1, Creative Writing
Presenter: Evelyn Conlon, Novelist, Short Story Writer, and Essayist
23 March, 2024.
3.30pm Cox’s Bazar district time/9.30am Dublin/Ldn time

Evelyn Conlon is an Irish novelist and short story writer. She has published four collections of Short Stories, four novels, one of which, Skin of Dreams, concerns the issue of capital punishment, another Not the Same Sky, which engages in the story of the Famine orphan Irish girls shipped to Australia. She has edited four anthologies and recently published a collection of essays Reading Rites:Books, writing and other things that matter. She is an elected member of Aosdána, the Irish association which honours distinguished artistic work. She has been writer-in-residence in colleges in many countries, at University College Dublin and is currently Adjunct Professor and Mentor with Carlow University Pittsburgh MFA. Born in Co. Monaghan, she lives in Dublin. A clear-sighted, observant and unsentimental thinker, her work is marked by originality and wit.
https://evelynconlon.com/

Training 2, Writing Poetry
Presenter: Maria McManus, Poet and Playwright
13 April, 2024.
3.30pm Cox’s Bazar district time/9.30am Dublin/Ldn time

Maria MacManus was born on the island of Enniskillen and lives in Belfast. She have recently set up a not-for-profit company, limited by guarantee, called Quotidian – Word on the Street Limited. The remit of Quotidian is to create innovative ways to animate civic space with literature. The first project of Quotidian – Word on the Street Limited is Ireland’s first Poetry JukeBox and is located at The Crescent Arts Centre in Belfast (You can read about it here: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/poetry-jukebox-amplifying-quiet-voices-and-beautiful-words-1.3244063). Maria’s most recent work is Available Light (Arlen House 2018) and she has previously published We are Bone (Lagan Press 2013), The Cello Suites ( Lagan Press 2009) and Reading the Dog (Lagan Press 2006). Maria is currently a poetry mentor for the Poetry Society.
https://mariamcmanus.wordpress.com/about/

Training 3, Descriptive Writing
Presented by an experienced UK Teacher
27 April, 2024.
3.30pm Cox’s Bazar district time/9.30am Dublin/Ldn time

It may be useful to bring a pen and paper to each session.

Rohingya Futures is the working title of Dr Ronan Lee’s Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship research project. A key element of this project involves establishing knowledge-sharing activities and capacity building activities within the Rohingya’s refugee camps. Prioritising practices of co-production with the Rohingya community, Rohingya Futures has already helped to bring Rohingya poetry to a wider audience by publishing two collections of Rohingya poetry and is helping prepare a major anthology of Rohingya refugee poetry for publication during 2024.
For more details you can contact Ronan at: r.lee@lboro.ac.uk or find him at
https://twitter.com/Ronan_Lee and https://www.facebook.com/ronanlee