Author: Ruth Frances Long

Saturday 26th October at 2pm
Workshop for adults and teens. €15pp
Booking essential as places are limited.

Ruth Frances Long will be joining us again this year for a workshop and for the author panel discussion.

Workshop details 
Irish folklore and modern writing
We're living in a world where we move further away from the natural world and its natural rhythms. Irish myths and folklore remind us that the past is still lingering beneath the surface of the present, and reaches out to shape the future. These are stories which were made to be told and retold, adapting with each retelling, constantly changing to reflect the world around them. In this workshop we'll look at how to use our most ancient stories to tell modern myths, how to identify the themes buried in the words and rework those tales for a new audience.


About Ruth
Ruth Frances Long writes young adult fantasy such as The Treachery of Beautiful Things (Dial, 2012) and The Dubh Linn trilogy set in the world of demons, angels and fairies that exists alongside our own in modern day Dublin (A Crack in Everything, A Hollow in the Hills and A Darkness at the End (O’Brien, 2014-2016)). In 2015 she was the winner of The European Science Fiction Society Spirit of Dedication Award For Best Author of Children’s Science Fiction and Fantasy for A Crack in Everything.
As Jessica Thorne she writes fantasy and space opera romance – The Queen’s Wing (Bookouture, 2018) and The Stone’s Heart (Bookouture, 2019, and the forthcoming Mageborn (Bookouture, 2020)
As R. F. Long she writes fantasy & paranormal romance such as The Scroll Thief, Soul Fire and the Holtlands stories (The Wolf’s Sister, The Wolf’s Mate and The Wolf’s Destiny).
She lives in Ireland and works in a library of rare, unusual & occasionally crazy books. But they don’t talk to her that often.

Visit her website: www.rflong.com
Follow her on:
Twitter: @RFLong / @JessThorneBooks
Facebook: RuthFrancesLong
Instagram: ruthfranceslong

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