Ghost Story Reading & Writing Workshop

This workshop will explore the work of three 19th century Northern Irish ghost story writers: Charlotte Riddell (Carrickfergus), Rosa Mulholland (Belfast) and Ethna Carbery (Ballymena). After engaging with the ghostly fiction of these important writers we will help the ghost story tradition live on through your own writing.

The tutor will lead you through creative exercises and support you to write your own ghost story during this three-hour workshop.

You'll be thinking about the themes of isolation, gender, fear and the supernatural. 

About the tutor

Jen Herron is a local writer and teacher whose work has been featured in The Irish Times, Bowery Gothic, The Honest Ulsterman, Poetry Jukebox, Seaside Gothic, Hearth and Coffin and BBC Radio Ulster.

She won the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing, 2022 and is an Associate Editor for the Belfast Review.

Twitter/X: @_jenherron