Whether you’re writing your first novel or just thinking about it, this workshop will help you get to grips with the nuts and bolts of structure. Discover how timeline, perspective, different narrative forms and setting can be used to provide the best framework for your story. Join Clare O’Dea, author of Before the Leaves Fall and Voting Day, to explore the possibilities.
📅Date and time: Saturday 28 February, 11:00-13:00
📍Venue: Pianofabriek, Rue du Fort 35, 1060 Saint-Gilles
💰Price: €25 Eur (non-member) €20 Eur (Member)
The price of the workshop is €25 and €20 for members (read more about membership). Our bank account details are: Wordcraft Collective; BE27 0019 5813 6673.
Sign up by making the payment and filling in the sign-up form. For additional information email us on info@wordcraft-collective.eu.
In the case that there are fewer than 6 participants enrolled for the workshop, we reserve the right to cancel. We will undertake to inform all enrolled participants of the cancellation. In this case, we will refund all participants the full amount of their fees paid.
Clare O'Dea
Clare O’Dea’s latest novel Before the Leaves Fall was published by Fairlight Books in October 2025. Her historical novel Voting Day was published by Fairlight in 2022.
Clare’s two non-fiction books – The Naked Irish: Portrait of a Nation Beyond the Clichés, published by Mentor Books in September 2019, and The Naked Swiss: A Nation Behind 10 Myths published by Bergli Books (2016 & 2018) – were critically acclaimed. In 2023, she was the founding director of the Irish Festival Fribourg/Freiburg.
Originally from Dublin, Clare has lived in Switzerland since 2003, on the invisible line where the French- and German-speaking cultures meet. She spent nine years as a journalist at the international news service of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, swissinfo.ch, covering Swiss politics, culture and business news. She previously worked as a staff journalist for The Irish Times.
