Fighting Words NI is seeking a creative individual to join our team as our new Digital Storyteller. This position requires a storyteller who understands and has demonstrated a passion and aptitite for writing in the modern communications landscape and who can craft compelling narratives across a wide range of platforms. You will demonstrate an interest in cre
The short (10-minutes maximum) original plays were developed by 14-18-year-olds from around Northern Ireland who took part in YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS: ON STAGE AT THE LYRIC between February and May 2022. Each writer had the chance to create and develop their own original short play, then work with professional directors, dramaturgs, actors and designers to bring it to the stage.
Young Playwrights mentor Emily DeDakis explained:
Northern Irish Playwright and mentor with Fighting Words Northern Ireland, Karis Kelly, has been awarded the Women’s Prize for Playwriting for her play ‘Consumed’, a drama about four generations of Northern Irish women at a 90th birthday party in a “house full of hungry ghosts”.
Karis’ play was selected from 850 entries and 12 finalists, by the panel of judges that included Arifa Akbar, Mel Kenyon (Chair) and Lucy Kirkwood.
She said of the award:
Fighting Words Northern Ireland, has announced a month-long interactive exhibition at Banana Block in East Belfast, for children and young people. From 5 March, children, young people and their families can drop in (Wednesday-Sunday) read a book together in The Pencil Portal writer’s studio and create a story of their own to add to the display.
The Fighting Words exhibition will publish and display story-prompts written by Belfast youth groups and schools in recent months, to inspire other young writers.
Director at Fighting Words Hilary Copeland, said:
Fighting Words Northern Ireland has received an early 2022 bonus from local independent bookstore, No Alibis, following a pledge from the owner to donate 20% of the value of purchases made through the NI High Street Spend Local voucher scheme. No Alibis, based on Botanic Avenue in Belfast, raised £6000 for the charity through the scheme which ran from October to December 2021. Fighting Words NI, based in East Belfast, provides year-round free creative writing opportunities for children and young people aged 6-18 through its schools story making workshops, after-school Write Clubs and comm
Write Club member, Rachel Wilkinson is one of five young people from across the UK to have their work featured in the BBC Radio 4 series, ‘United Kingdoms’. Her specially commissioned eight-minute radio play, ‘Coleraine’ based on the theme of laughter, is told through the voice of a young police officer as she looks back on her career highlights.
We’re looking for a suitably qualified individual to work under a short-term freelance contract to provide services to deliver our New Worlds writing project January-March 2022.We’re looking for a suitably qualified individual to work under a short-term freelance contract to provide services to deliver our New Worlds writing project January-March 2022.
We’re looking for an ambitious, authentic, multi-talented solution-seeker to keep our organisation running smoothly.
Ideally, you will:
Have a passion for organisation, efficiency, an eye for detail and the bigger picture
Be ambitious - for yourself and us
Spot things that need sorting out before we do
Following a radio playwriting project that took place almost entirely in lockdown last December, eight young playwrights from the north coast, Derry/Londonderry and Donegal shared their work this week at on online celebration hosted by Fighting Words Northern Ireland.
We are delighted to take part in the Job Start scheme, making available 2 x opportunities for young people between 16-24 years who are not in employment through support from the Department of Communities.
We’re hiring: x1 Communications Assistant-Job reference:1521992 - Communications Assistant - (Part-time / Temporary)
and
x1 Programme Assistant:-Job reference:1522002 - Programme Assistant - (Part-time / Temporary)
Closing date: 04/02/22