Ballea Writers Club formed in March 2006 and achieved over 200 publications in their first two years. The founder members of the writing group met on a creative writing course with Vincent McDonnell in Carrigaline, Co Cork, Ireland.
A flurry of early publications, competition wins, short-listings and long-listings, brought the writing group many new members, both local and online, and from as far afield as Southern Sudan.
Ballea Writers Club and the Village of Carrigaline, where Ballea Castle stands, was acclaimed as a centre of literary excellence when, in less than a year of their foundation, the writing group portfolio, of fiction, poetry and journalism, won them second place in the All Ireland Writers Group of the Year Awards.
Book Launch: John O' Connell and Joe Kelly
of Ballea Writers Club Ireland
The writing group operates on four arms: fiction, non-fiction, poetry and journalism and publishes extensively in each. They also have a youth writing group.
The writing group mission statement is: 'to support and facilitate the advancement of writing skills and the art of writing among our writers club members, our community and especially our youth.'
The future aims of Ballea Writers Club are onwards and upwards and the dream of founding an Institute of Creative Writing.
Book Signing: John O'Connell and Joe Kelly.
of Ballea Writers Club Ireland
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Ballea Writers Club Website Texts and Photography by Elaine Rhys-Davies
Ballea Writers Club Website launched November 2007
Ballea Writers Club Website updated January 2009.
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