Get Your Work Published: A Short Story Workshop

What does it take to get your short story over the line for publication? In this in-person, two-day workshop, author and Fiction Editor at Overland literary magazine, Claire Corbett, will take you through the steps of what makes a short story stand out, and how you can increase your chances of publication.

The modern short story is relatively young; it’s dynamic, developing and still one of the most exciting literary forms. Publishing a short story is one of the main avenues to first publication for writers and often provides their first experiences of working with professional editors and publishers. In this workshop, through close reading of selected stories by writers such as George Saunders, we will gain a clearer understanding of how the modern short story works and how it has changed over the last few decades. This process of close reading is the most powerful technique for improving your own writing and story structure.

We then work through the process of submitting a story to a journal and learning how your story will be read, evaluated and either rejected or accepted. Participants will also be taken through the editing of a real story from submission to final publication, gaining invaluable insight into the production of contemporary Australian fiction.

Expected learning outcomes

In this workshop, participants will:

1. Receive an overview of the modern short story

2. Learn in depth how contemporary short stories work and how to use these insights to strengthen their own writing

3. Learn how to submit their short stories to literary journals and simple things they can do to make it more likely their work will be read and published.

Participant requirements

Pen and paper, and/or a fully charged device.

Please read our FAQ> before enrolling.If you have questions about this course, please contact us.