- Overview
- Syllabus
- What we offer
- Requirements
Overview
This course will appeal to anyone keen to become a freelance lifestyle journalist. Food, fashion and travel are essential elements in all Sunday Supplements and this course will enable students to hone their writing skills in all three areas.
The course will give you an overview of the current lifestyle media marketplace while developing your journalistic skills, with a specific relevance to the freelance features industry. Students will learn about the reality of working as a freelance journalist across a variety of titles.
Students will become familiar with the workings of the Irish media market and will hone their feature writing skills. Throughout the course, students will produce a portfolio of work and will develop feature ideas that they will be confident to pitch to editors in the marketplace.
Students will be inspired by guest speakers including leading food, travel and fashion writers who will share their personal expertise in the field.
Classes have both lecture and creative-workshop elements. Students will finish the course with a completed writing project.
Meet The Lecturer - Aoife Carrigy
Aoife Carrigy is a freelance journalist and editor specialising in food, wine, travel and the arts. Aoife has contributed to FOOD&WINE Magazine, The Irish Times, Sunday Business Post, The Evening Herald, Irish Tatler, Cara, Abroad, Exclusive, Village, Totally Dublin, The Dubliner and The Event Guide.
Since leaving her post as deputy editor at FOOD&WINE Magazine (January 2006 – September 2010), for whom she continues to write the monthly ‘Guinea Pig wine tasting’ and regular restaurant reviews, Aoife set up the food blog HolyMackerel.ie, which provides readers with regular industry news and foodie inspiration. She is an experienced public speaker, and currently chairs the bi-monthly food discussion forum, For Food’s Sake. She is also an experienced copy-editor, having cut her teeth in the book publishing industry with stints at Lilliput Press and Gill & MacMillan, and has worked as a freelance sub-editor for broadsheets, tabloids and lifestyle magazines.
Following on from her MA in Anglo-Irish Literature (and a BA in English Literature and Philosophy), Aoife has lectured across diverse topics, including literature, language and communications, and journalism. She teaches Ethics, Freelance Journalism and Food, Fashion & Travel Journalism at Independent College Dublin.
Course Start Date
Tuesday 7th February 2012
Course Timetable
Evening Course
Tuesday Evenings 6.30-9.30pm
7th February 2012- 1st May 2012 - No classes 10th April 2012
Day Course
Tuesday afternoon 2pm-5pm
Awarding Body
The Institute of Commercial Management
Contact Details
Email: arts@independentcolleges.ie
Phone: 01-6725058
Course Duration
12 weeks
Course Fees
Full time: n/a
Part time: €895 ( Payment plan options available- Please call 01 672 5058 for details)
Syllabus
Syllabus.
- Back to basics - what is a Lifestyle Feature – we look at tone, structure, mood and study examples focussing on food, travel and fashion.
- Get a taste for it. We begin with the genre of Food writing. Debate on Foodie inspirations from AA Gill to Jamie Oliver and Rachel Allen. What makes a great food writer?
- Meet the critic. A leading restaurant critic will come and reveal the tricks of the trade.
- Travel writing. Learning to take the reader on a journey with you. How to be both informative and entertaining.
- Fashion. Whether you’re blogging or writing for a busy daily we explore the various fashion feature styles from single page ‘How to Wear It’ pages to image-led montage pages and full-length fashion features.
- Writing it. Hone your feature writing skills Part I. We will tackle structure, format and style.
- Writing it. Hone your fashion feature writing skills Part II. Interview skills, polishing your prose and more.
- Developing Ideas. How to kickstart the creative process. And how to successfully pitch to editors.
- What makes a great feature? We ask editors across the Irish media marketplace to tell us what they look for in freelance feature pitches.
- Get out there. How to survive as a freelance journalist.
What We Offer
This course will appeal to anyone with a passion for fashion and the written word.
Students will be inspired by guest speakers including leading fashion editors, writers, stylists and fashion photographers who will come in and share their personal expertise in the field.
Classes will include an information session (lecture) and a creative workshop dimension. Students will finish the course with a completed writing project.
Requirements
This course will appeal to anyone with a passion for fashion and the written word. Students will be inspired by guest speakers including leading fashion editors, writers, stylists and fashion photographers who will come in and share their personal expertise in the field. Classes will include an information session (lecture) and a creative workshop dimension. Students will finish the course with a completed writing project.
