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It operates on the premise that creative writing is an essential part of every child\u2019s education: that giving children a real dedicated chance and space to explore the limitlessness of their imaginations, does great things.\u00a0 The raw skills that are passed on are some of the key ingredients for succeeding in life with marked improvements in self-expression, literacy, self-esteem and self-confidence.\u00a0Kerry Writers\u2019 Museum, Listowel established the first Fighting Words Centre in Kerry in 2018 and continue to deliver free creative writing workshops to primary and secondary school pupils. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>Due to impacts of Covid 19 this year, the 2020 programme had to temporarily suspend workshops, however, ran a programme of online workshops in August and with the easing of restrictions in September ran in-house workshops for small class sizes.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>The focus of 2020 and beyond is to extend each with continued and strengthened commitment to the project.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>The \u2018Fighting Words\u2019 Creative Writing Programme is supported\u00a0through Creative Ireland Kerry in partnership with the Kerry Writers Museum, the\u00a0Seancha\u00ed Centre Listowel.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11469,"template":"","class_list":["post-11468","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fighting Words Kerry 2020 - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Fighting Words is a free creative writing programme founded by Roddy Doyle in 2009.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/fighting-words-kerry-2020\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fighting Words Kerry 2020 - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Fighting Words is a free creative writing programme founded by Roddy Doyle in 2009. 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