Creative writing for beginners with Kevin Higgins will take place at Galway Technical Institute on Mondays from 7pm to 9.30pm for eight weeks.

The course commences on Monday, 7 April. Advance booking is essential and places cost €110. Kevin Higgins will provide writing exercises for, and give gentle critical feedback to, those interested in trying their hand at writing poems, stories or memoirs.

Intermediate Creative Writing with Susan Millar DuMars takes place one evening per week on Tuesdays from 7pm to 9.30pm for eight weeks. It commences on Tuesday, 8 April. Advance booking is essential and places cost €110.

This class is suitable for those who have participated in creative writing classes before or begun to have work published in magazines. Flexible exercises and work-shopping of assignments, together with the study of the works of published writers, will help each class member to find their own writing voice.

To book a place in either class, contact GTI, Father Griffin Road on 091-581342 or go to www.gti.ie.