David Mcloghlin

01/08/2026

Join us for "In the Woods: Fruitfully Lost," an in-person course in Life Writing (memoir and poetry) at Greywood Arts Centre, Killeagh east Cork from Saturday 22nd to Monday 24th August from 10 am to 4 pm daily. We will be generating new writing to exemplary prompts. and me aren’t just prize-winning writers, we’re facilitators with years of experience who create spaces highly conducive to creativity, whatever your level. For more information and to sign up: https://www.davidmcloghlin.com/classes -the-woods

29/07/2026

Fruitfully Lost: a Restorative Life-Writing Retreat.

The wonderful Lani O'Hanlon and myself are teaching an innovative, generative life-writing course at Greywood Arts Centre in the last week of August. It's IN PERSON! 10 am to 4 pm for three days. We'll be reading and writing to prompts from both memoir and poetry. This is a valuable opportunity. All levels are welcome. Sign up details and more information via this link.
https://www.davidmcloghlin.com/classes -the-woods

05/07/2026

I'm teaching and facilitating a 10-week memoir boot camp course starting on 20th August. This course is for writers of any level who are either beginning or revising a memoir or essay project. Each two-hour class is equally divided between the craft of memoir and generative writing exercises designed to practice those craft learnings. The What’s App check ins build team spirit and help individual writers meet daily writing goals as well as their overall goal for the course as a whole. Contact me directly at david[at]davidmcloghlin.com for a 20% discount, available until 16th July, and feel free to email me with any questions.

https://www.davidmcloghlin.com/classes -boot-camp

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27/05/2026

Hello All, I'm teaching a short online course via The Shipman Agency at the end of June, offering a scene / summary memoir paradigm that is essential if you want your nonfiction writing to pop into three dimensions.

Class structure: We’ll learn to read as writers by looking at extracts from writers like James Baldwin and Suad Aldarra (I Don’t Want to Talk About Home), we’ll discuss writing craft; we’ll do some thought-provoking writing exercises to practice these learnings, and we’ll have fun while building community. This highly practical course will give you the essentials on how to write effective scenes in memoir, and how to hold the reader’s hand with necessary background and context. Click the link to sign up and for more information. I hope to see you there!

2 Sessions: Saturday, June 20 + 27
11:00am-1:00pm ET / 4 pm - 6 pm Irish time
A full scholarship and 2 half scholarships are available.
$150.

2 Sessions: Saturday, June 20 + 27 11:00am-1:00pm ET David McLoghlin David McLoghlin is a prize-winning poet, and a writer of memoir plus and personal essay. His third book, Crash Centre (2024), was recently shortlisted for Ireland's Pigott Prize, Ireland's most valuable poetry prize. He

04/04/2026

I’m writing a golfing memoir / memoir plus about our grandfather, Eddie Hackett, “the father of golf design” in Ireland, per the top100golfcourses.com this list isn’t comprehensive. It’s estimated he designed 60 courses in the Republic, and redesigned or worked on some element of many more. Best known for his true links like Waterville, Connemara, Enniscrone, Donegal at Murrvagh, Carne in Belmullet, Ceann Sibeal in West Kerry, “half the people playing golf in Irelakd are doing so because of Eddie Hackett” per his friend Pat Ruddy.

30/03/2026

My course, "Memoir Boot Camp: Write Your Memoir or Personal Essay Collection in 10 Weeks" is starting on 16th April! It runs live every Thursday evening, 5:30-7:30 pm (Irish Standard Time; or 12:30 - 2:30 pm ET). The course is designed to help you write a first draft in 10 weeks via accountability and support both in and outside class (What's App Group, small group, Google Drive for learning materials, one-on-one office hours with me, etc). It has practical and easily-absorbed memoir craft elements, and writing prompts based on craft learnings. More information and sign up here:

https://www.davidmcloghlin.com/classes -boot-camp

28/03/2026

23/12/2025

I’m delighted to offer my third memoir boot camp via Zoom, which starts on 15th January and runs for 10 weeks every Thursday, 5:30 - 7:30 pm Irish Standard Time (12:30 - 2:30 pm EST). Capped at eight students, it’s an accountability-driven generative craft class offering core aspects of memoir and the personal essay. Students have enthused, “you transcend Zoom!” And, “you have been the teacher that I needed.” This is a great opportunity to kickstart your memoir, work out what the story is that you’re writing towards, read more widely and generate more work in an atmosphere of trust and support. In recent years, I have facilitated and taught several hundred of hours of creative writing, principally memoir and poetry, via The Irish Writers Centre, The Center for Fiction, The Shipman Agency and Hudson Valley Writers Center. This is a perfect course both for beginners and writers on the cusp of applying to MA and MFA in Creative Writing Programmes. Aspects of craft we will cover include how to

- write immersive scenes, weaving in effective exposition.
- identify and implement the “story within the story,” or through-line / central narrative thread.
- develop your narrative voice.
- work with leitmotifs, by implementing recurring images, or thematic elements.
- work with different time lines and establish a sense of the “narrative present”.
- map your narrative arc and develop a structure that works for you.
- use free writing to break through blocks and progressively home in on the story you want to tell.

For more details, consult https://www.davidmcloghlin.com/classes -boot-camp and feel free to email me at david[at]davidmcloghlin.com