Applications are now open for the Cúirt Young Writer Delegates Programme in partnership with the Irish Writers Centre
Are you a writer aged 18—26? Applications are now open for the Cúirt Young Writer Delegates Programme in partnership with The Irish Writers Centre.
Four delegates will spend five days (four nights) at Cúirt International Festival of Literature 2025 which takes place this year from 08—13 April.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Mentoring: Delegates will be supported by local writer and mentor Alan McMonagle for the duration of the festival.
Workshop: Alan will help the delegates to develop a new or in-progress piece of writing.
Festival Events: Delegates will be granted free access to as many festival events as they’d like to attend (depending on individual event availability), excluding workshops.
Public Showcase: Delegates will read the piece of work they have developed at a public showcase as part of the festival programme. The festival provides a small honorarium for this event which will be paid to the delegates at the beginning of the festival.
Social Media: Each delegate will be in charge of the official Young Writer Delegates Instagram for one day to highlight festival events they are attending and their experiences as a Young Writer Delegate.
Review: Post-festival, each delegate will write a piece in response to their experience of the festival, which will be published on the Irish Writers Centre website (see example). This can be a creative piece, a review of an event or an interview with a writer.
Feedback: In exchange for being awarded the programme, the IWC will ask for feedback and evaluation to continue to improve the programme for future delegates.
Accommodation is provided for three delegates from outside the Galway area, with a fourth place dedicated to a delegate living in Galway.
For full guidelines and eligibility please see here. Deadline for applications is Sunday 9 February 2025.
