Kilkenny County Council Arts Office is a supporter of the National Mentoring Programme. As one of the largest writer mentoring programmes in Ireland, NMP has an enormous impact on a writers’ journey by providing essential professional support. The programme is aimed at both emerging and established writers of fiction, creative non-fiction, Children’s / Young Adult fiction and poetry. Writers from all thirty-two counties are eligible to apply. Selected mentees get the opportunity to choose the writer they work with from the Irish Writers Centre panel of experienced, professional writers (subject to availability).
Since 2017, the programme has numerous published authors among its alumni including Amy Barry, Anne Walsh Donnelly, Geraldine Walsh, Molly Twomey, Sam Furlong, Simon Costello, and Tom Roseingrave to name just a few.
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