Make Your Own Literary Luck Workshop

With Sue Divin.

‘The harder I work, the luckier I get.’ – Samuel Goldwyn

Is getting a traditional publication deal just about pure luck? Can you make your own luck? This course, whilst useful for all writers, is ideal for emerging prose, novel or short story writers aiming to publish their writing.

Through discussion and activities, this course aims to help writers to be purposeful, focused and active in working to breakthrough. It covers two key areas:

1. Connect, submit, compete: How to get your writing noticed.

2. Polish until it shines: How to lift your work to the next level through self-editing, mentoring and pitching.

Sue Divin is a Derry-based writer with Armagh roots. She has published two YA/crossover novels, and another is due to be published in 2026. Carnegie-shortlisted Guard Your Heart, a ‘Romeo and Juliet set in Derry 2016’, won the Great Reads Award Ireland, and Truth Be Told, ‘Parent-trap meets Derry Girls’, was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards.

You may also like the following events from Seamus Heaney HomePlace:

• Next Wednesday, 20th August, 10:30 am, Open Ground Experience in Magherafelt
• Next Thursday, 21st August, 02:00 pm, Gary Lightbody in Conversation with Jan Carson (MATINEE) in Magherafelt
• Next Thursday, 21st August, 07:30 pm, Gary Lightbody in Conversation with Jan Carson in Magherafelt

Also check out other Arts events in Magherafelt, Literary Art events in Magherafelt, Workshops in Magherafelt.