Historical Fiction Workshop with Juliana Adelman
Sunday 1 June
3 to 5pm
2-hour workshop
An Cupán Café, Mountshannon
(accessibility - manual wheelchair)
€22, €20 with wristband
In this two-hour workshop we will explore world-building, character and narrative voice in historical fiction using examples from novels and short stories. We will also generate story and character ideas through a series of prompts from historical sources. We’ll consider how to ground the reader in specifics without overburdening your text with research, how to create authentic characters and how to decide which point of view to use. Bring questions, your sense of fun and a willingness to experiment.
Juliana Adelman
Juliana Adelman is from Concord, Massachusetts but has lived in Dublin for over twenty years where she is assistant professor of history at Dublin City University.
Her debut novel, The Grateful Water, is historical crime fiction set in nineteenth-century Dublin and draws on her expertise in Irish social history. Her most recent nonfiction book is Civilised by Beasts, which looks at the role of animals in Victorian Dublin. Her short work has appeared or will appear in the Dublin Review, the Stinging Fly and the Irish Times. She is a recipient of the Arts Council Literature Bursary and is currently completing an MA in Creative Writing at DCU. She is working on her second novel and a collection of short stories.
Photo Juliana Adelman