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The Haunted and Fantastical: Short Film Programme 2017-2018 Season

The Maynooth Film for All Club season finished this month and will resume in October 2018. I was delighted to be invited to present another programme of short films for the season, and had great fun devising a theme and selecting some wonderful films. As always, the standard of submitted productions was very high, but unfortunately, I could only include seven films in the final programme. The theme I chose this time around was ‘The Haunted and Fantastical’ with an aim to screen films that wer...

On Writing: Fictional characters are anything but…

To write fictional characters, we must know them, inside and out, before we can feel empathy for them, and before we can understand why and how they will do the things that we will make them do, and say the words that we will make them say.

In other words, we must believe that they are real flesh and blood, with all of the wonders and foibles that go along with that. Only then, can we really write them in any meaningful way. This is nothing new to any writer worth their salt, right? And of th...

Interview: Allo, Allo!

Well, this was different, and lots of fun!! My thanks to author Michael Chrobak for featuring me.

 

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http://www.eatingwrite.com/author-interviews/caroline-farrell

You can find out more about Michael’s work HERE

FRAMED: The Trailer is up!

I am delighted to release the trailer of my directorial debut. Big hugs of gratitude to all who collaborated with me to make this happen. To find out more about the cast and crew, please visit our Facebook page at the link below…

 

FRAMED, a Short Film 

 

More news coming soon!

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I am also the author of the novels LADY BETH which won the award for BEST NOVEL at the Carousel Aware Prize and ARKYNE...

Events: Three Readings at 3pm

It’s a famine or a feast these days. A busy month with yet another reading, this time in the fabulous Books Upstairs in Dublin’s D’Olier Street. I’ll be reading with two wonderfully talented writers, Lindsay J Sedgwick and Carolann Copland, this Sunday, April 22nd.

Events: Creative Librarians… and their secret lives!

I’m hitting the road to Cork to appear as a guest of Cork County Library and Arts Reader’s Day, focusing on creative librarians. I’ll be chatting with Dermot Bolger (also a former Librarian) mid-morning in Cobh Library, this Saturday, April 14th.

Guests include author, Colette Caddle and poet, Thomas McCarthy, and a number of current Cork County Library staff will also read and speak about their published works. Elizabeth Desmond, Mallow library, has been shortlisted in the “From the Well” sh...

Events: Staccato Spoken Word Night

I was delighted to be invited to read at Staccato Spoken Night, with some wonderful writers, poets, musicians, actors and storytellers. The event is held in Toner’s Pub, Baggot Street, Dublin on the second Wednesday evening of every month. Well worth a visit, and great craic!

 

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On Writing: A Heroine’s Journey – Writing Through the Dark Tangle

One thing that all writers can agree on is that we are fascinated with the surface of things, or rather, with picking away the veneer from the surface of things. That invisible gauze between thought and process, where all the ‘what ifs’ wait for us to discover them. To decode. To create story, the stuff of good and evil, of life and death. Through the written word, I lean into the path of freedom of expression. My writer’s palette is abundant with words and tones that build worlds around my t...

Mrs Average Evaluates: LADY BETH

I’ve written about book reviews before, and the importance of them to authors, and I am always so grateful when someone takes the time to read and comment, so today, I just need to shout out my appreciation to Mrs Average Evaluates for this wonderful live review!

Mrs Average Evaluates LADY BETH

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And yes, there will be a sequel!!

You can check out her lovely FACEBOOK PAGE HERE