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SUMMARY:Reading Round at Coleraine Library
DESCRIPTION:What is a Reading Round group?  \nReading Round is a unique type of reading group that differs in a number of ways from traditional-style book groups. Each group is run by a published author who has worked for at least two years in the Royal Literary Fund’s Fellowship scheme. Reading Round is funded by the Royal Literary Fund and is free for members to join. \nWhere and When will it happen? \nThe Reading Round group will meet in the Meeting Room at Coleraine Library starting again in September 2022. Provisional dates (28th September 2022 through to 7th June 2023) to be confirmed. \nWhat’s involved? \nEach week the group listens to a different piece\, or pieces\, of writing read aloud by the Group Lector. The piece might be a story or a poem though it might also be a speech\, memoir or piece of narrative non-fiction. The group then discusses the piece(s) at some length to really try to get under the skin of the text: What effects does it have on us as we read? How does it achieve those effects? Guided by a Lector\, the group considers the text in detail\, looking at tone\, choice of words\, viewpoint\, the effect of a certain image or turn of phrase\, and so on. There is no extra reading or ‘homework’ to be done either before or after the sessions. No prior knowledge of the texts is necessary\, or even desirable. All that is required of participants is a willingness to listen\, discuss and be open to new ideas. \nWho will lead the group? \nBernie McGill is the Lector for Reading Round at Coleraine Library. She was Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at Queen’s University\, Belfast from 2018 – 2020. Her published work includes novels The Butterfly Cabinet  and The Watch House and the short story collection Sleepwalkers. Her new short story collection This Train is For was published by No Alibis Press in June 2022. \nWhy Reading Round? \nThe broad aim of a Reading Round group is to familiarise its members with some excellent and inspiring writing and – for those who are already keen readers – to introduce them to a wider range of literature than they might have discovered alone. Alongside this aim\, it is hoped that attendance at a Reading Round group will help develop members’ critical thinking skills. As the weeks go by\, group members may well find their reading habits changing: they will almost certainly find themselves noticing more; appreciating why the text has been written as it has; perhaps also becoming aware of how the writer of the text is manipulating their readers. The goal is not to agree or to arrive at a definitive reading of the text under discussion; it is to gain a deeper understanding. For many participants\, the group may also provide a valuable opportunity to meet with other readers in a friendly\, stimulating and relaxed environment. To get a full sense of what it is like to be a Reading Round member\, watch the video on the Royal Literary Fund website: https://www.rlf.org.uk/education/reading-round/ \nHow do I join? \nReading Round is free to join and is for anyone who lives within a comfortable travelling distance of Coleraine Library and who is aged 16+. We are looking for participants from a broad range of backgrounds. We do ask that you can commit to the 30 weeks of weekly meetings. There is a limited number of places\, after which names will be added to a waiting list. To book your place\, please email Bernie McGill at bernie.mcgill@rlfeducation.org.uk and tell us where you heard about Reading Round and why it appeals to you.
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LOCATION:Coleraine Library\, Queen Street\, Coleraine\, BT52 1BE\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing Workshop with Bernie McGill at FLive Festival\, Ardhowen Theatre\, Enniskillen
DESCRIPTION:Harness the power of your imagination and creative writing skills and join Bernie McGill for a 2-hour writing workshop as part of FLive Festival at the Ardhowen Theatre Studio\, Enniskillen. This will be a practical workshop on the everyday craft of writing with the aim of sparking ideas for new work. Prompts and exercises will be used. \nBernie McGill is the author of two novels: The Watch House (nominated for the Ireland European Union Prize for Literature in 2019) and The Butterfly Cabinet (named by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes as his novel of the year in 2012). Her first collection of stories\, Sleepwalkers\, was shortlisted for the prestigious Edge Hill Prize in 2014. Her new short story collection\, This Train is For*\, was published in June 2022 by No Alibis Press. \nBernie was Writing Fellow with the Royal Literary Fund (RLF) at Queen’s University\, Belfast from 2018 to 2020. She is an Associate Fellow of the RLF and works as a Lector (for Reading Round at Coleraine Library) and Writing Facilitator for the organisation\, and is a Writing Mentor with the Irish Writers’ Centre. She lives with her family in Portstewart. \nBook online for the Creative Writing Workshop on the FLive Festival website. \n*Bernie will be at the Ardhowen Theatre Studio at 2pm on Saturday 8th October for the FLive Book Club event featuring This Train is For. Full details on the FLive Festival website.
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LOCATION:Ardhowen Theatre\, Enniskillen\, 97 Dublin Rd\, Enniskillen\, BT74 6FZ\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:FLive Book Club with Bernie McGill and This Train is For at Ardhowen Theatre\, Enniskillen
DESCRIPTION:Whether you are an avid reader and in a book club\, or have no time to read and are simply looking for inspiration then come and join us for the FLive Book Club at the Ardhowen Theatre Studio\, Enniskillen. \nTo take part read Bernie McGill’s newly published collection of stories\, This Train is For (released by No Alibis Press on 1st June 2022)\, within your book club or individually\, then buy a ticket for the FLive Book Club and come and chat with Bernie*. \nBook online for FLive Book Club on the FLive Festival website. \n*Bernie will facilitate a Creative Writing Workshop at the Ardhowen Theatre Studio from 10 am – 12 noon on Saturday 8th October. Full details and booking on the FLive Festival website. \n  \nPraise for This Train is For: \n‘This Train is For portrays the complexities of the heart with sensitivity and acute psychological insight. Rendered in the most perfect prose\, Bernie McGill presents lives in physical and emotional transit\, uncertain of the journey’s destination\, understanding that sometimes the most important moments in our lives involve travelling not forward\, but to moments we thought we had left long behind.’ David Park \n‘Bernie McGill is one of the most accomplished short story writers in Ireland today. These stories contain powerful truths and unsettling revelations\, delivered in the gentlest voice. An absolute joy of a collection from start to finish with not a word wasted or misplaced.’\nJan Carson \n‘Wonderful stories of journeys geographical and of the inner kind.’ Bernard MacLaverty \n‘Bernie McGill brings her precise\, lyrical\, deceptively quiet style to these stories in a collection that gleams. This Train is For is the work of a decade\, and it shows; each story burnished; and a book that’s a beautiful addition to No Alibis Press.’ Lucy Caldwell  \n‘This Train is For is a dazzling exercise in compression\, and an exemplification of what the short story form can achieve.’\nNeil Hegarty\, Fortnight Magazine\n\n‘Beneath the exquisite surface – at once lyrical and plain-spoken – of each of these stories is carried a great freight of feeling that McGill handles with humanity and restraint. An excellent collection from one of the finest short story writers working in Ireland today.’ Louise Kennedy \n‘Derry-born Bernie McGill’s second collection of stories has been eight years in the making\, and it was worth the wait. There’s a welcome wit peppering the stories…  closing lines that satisfy while leaving enough open to keep the reader thinking. It’s a rare achievement that McGill makes look easy. But the best story might be the last\, In the Interests of Wonder\, which takes an illusionist’s visit to a school and invests it with sinister strangeness. It reminded me of Thomas Mann’s great allegory of power and credulity\, Mario and the Magician\, and I can offer no higher praise than that.’\nJohn Self\, Irish Times  \n‘Bernie McGill’s new book of short stories is a collection of quiet majesty\, featuring 12 perfectly crafted stories\, all exploring moments of transition in the lives of the lost and the lonely. With a compassionate skill\, these stories are like arrows in flight; we do not know where they have started from\, or where they will land but the journey itself is what is important.’\nCathy Brown\, Dig With It Magazine \n‘The past returns unbidden in Bernie McGill’s artfully unsettling This Train is For\, an intricately crafted collection of unexpected journeys through time and the stations of the heart. The book is a modern meditation on the inextricability of language and history in Northern Ireland\, a place where the naming of things\, or the not-naming of them\, encodes expression with additional layers of meaning.’\nDawn Miranda Sherratt-Bado\, Dublin Review of Books \n  \n  \n 
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LOCATION:Ardhowen Theatre\, Enniskillen\, 97 Dublin Rd\, Enniskillen\, BT74 6FZ\, United Kingdom
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