Achievements

• Our members have been shortlisted in the People's College Writing Competition, and represented in Ireland's Own, Sunday Miscellany, the Hennessy New Writers Awards (both prose and poetry sections); and quite a few of us had poems and prose included in an anthology of works compiled by Dermot Bolger called County Lines: A Portrait of Life in South Dublin County (New Island). Some were invited to read their work at the annual Readers Day in the Plaza Hotel in Tallaght.

• A number of us have been interviewed on local radio stations and were highly commended for a radio story competition by Liffey Sound 96.4FM and read our work on air. And this year six of us have entered for the Francis McManus Awards on RTÉ Radio 1. One member collaborated on Treasures of Lucan – a book portraying the beauty and the history to be found in and around our Village with its wonderful Demesne walks, while another is in the process of setting up a Junior Writers Group in Clondalkin.

• Two of the group have completed novels that are wending their way to publishers; and four more novels are in gestation. Last December a Lucan Creative Writers Group poet had a poem chosen for the 2008 Oxfam Ireland calendar – other contributors to this calendar include Seamus Heaney and Mary O'Malley. And a television programme City Loops, soon to be featured on RTÉ 1, will feature another member.

• In 2007, thanks to Library funding, we published our own anthology – Caught in Amber – which was edited by Eileen Casey and launched by Dermot Bolger.

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