Ryan Dunne
With a lifelong passion for the written word, I have honed my writing skills across a variety of media throughout a career spanning twenty years.
Having worked in newspapers and magazines, radio, television, and online, and acquired full certification in Google’s Fundamentals of Digital Marketing and WordPress for Business, I have all the expertise needed to help you get your message across as clearly and crisply as possible.
As a journalist, editor, subeditor, and advertising executive, both full-time and freelance, I have written for such media outlets as RTE, The Irish Times, The Journal, The Irish Sun, The Irish Mirror, The Independent, The Ulster Herald, The Tyrone Constitution, The Strabane Weekly News, The Dungannon Observer, The Strabane Herald, The Tyrone Herald, The Leinster Express, and The Laois Nationalist. As a court reporter, I have covered high profile criminal trials in the Central Criminal Court and the High Court in Dublin.
In the area of arts journalism, I was a correspondent for monthly dance music magazine BBM Magazine, and a contributor to the leading arts and cultural website, Culture Northern Ireland.
On radio, I have worked with BBC Northern Ireland and Q Radio, and on television I did production work with Mint Productions for BBC NI.
As an editor and proofreader, I edited the book Scribblers to Scribes, a collection of short stories by new Irish writers that was published through LOETB. I have also proofread and formatted business websites and academic theses, tidying up syntax, correcting grammar, and fact-checking content to ensure the finished product meets the highest standards.
I am also a tutor and trainer, with QQI Level 6 in Training Delivery and Evaluation. To offer guidance to other aspiring wordsmiths, I teach creative writing classes both online and in person through Education and Training Boards, delivering courses to adult learners at beginners level and advanced. The focus is on the art of short stories, but there are also classes in journalistic techniques and memoir writing, and I also teach IT skills.
In addition, I deliver workshops though Local Enterprise Offices and the private sector to help business owners and their staff develop the necessary skills to create their own blogs and social media content. It doesn't matter if what you're working on is a short piece of fiction or factual communication, the principles of simplicity of language and clarity in tone remain the same.
My enthusiasm for writing naturally extends into my personal life too. As well as being longlisted and shortlisted for the Fish Publishing Short Story Prize and Short Memoir Prize and the Michael Mullan Charity Fund Flash Fiction Competition, I am currently working on writing and illustrating my first children’s book, to share my love of the written word with younger readers.