Sustaining a Flourishing Writing Practice

Title: Sustaining a Flourishing Writing Practice
Speaker: Anne Tannam
Date: Thursday, 23 March 2023
Time: 4 pm to 5 pm IST
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Anne Tannam is an Irish poet living in Dublin. Her first book of poetry, Take This Life was published in 2011 and her second collection Tides Shifting Across My Sitting Room Floor is forthcoming with Salmon Poetry in Spring 2017. Anne has performed her work at spoken word festivals across Ireland. She co-founded the Dublin Writers' Forum; a weekly, per-led support group for Dublin based writers, and is a qualified creative coach.
Anne is involved in the collaborative poetry project All the Worlds Between co-facilitated by K Srilata, which involves poets based mainly in India and Ireland and some in between, playing with issues of identity. An anthology of the work will be published by Yoda Press in 2018.
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Believing in yourself as a writer can be hard, and sustaining a regular writing practice can be even harder. As writers, what should we focus on tostay energised and focused on our art and craft? In this session, the focus was on the key factors needed to help writers stay committed to their practice, despite the ebb and flow of a writing life.