{"id":37807,"date":"2025-08-29T03:04:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T02:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/event\/fighting-words-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T03:04:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T02:04:03","slug":"fighting-words-2025","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/fighting-words-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Words 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Laois County Library Service in association with Local Creative Youth Partnership&nbsp;\/ LOETB and supported by Creative Ireland Laois is establishing&nbsp;a&nbsp;Fighting&nbsp;Words&nbsp;programme in Laois. The aim is to help children, young people, and adults to discover and harness the power of their imaginations and creative writing skills.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Fighting Words, founded by Roddy Doyle (writer) and Sean Love (former director of Amnesty International Ireland), is a creative writing initiative launched in January 2009. Fighting Words is open to all who want to write \u2013 and its free. Inspired by 826 National in the United States, Fighting Words helps students of all ages to develop their writing skills and to explore their love of writing. Fighting Words can provide story-telling workshops for primary school groups and creative writing workshops for secondary students and adults.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">At its core, Fighting Words is also about something much broader and more inclusive. It is about using the creative practice of writing and storytelling to strengthen our children and teenagers \u2013 from a wide range of backgrounds \u2013 to be resilient, creative and successful shapers of their own lives.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Go to&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightingwords.ie\/\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">www.fightingwords.ie<\/span><\/a><span lang=\"EN-US\">&nbsp;for more information and follow Fighting Words on Facebook:<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Fightingwordsireland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dates and locations of Fighting Words Laois will be updated shortly. 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