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Online: Crafting Short Stories

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When

Every day, all day Wednesday 5 November to Wednesday 5 November

Cost

Full Price: $225Member: $170Concession: $145

The short story is the most elegant and penetrating of fictional forms. It is also, notoriously, one of the most difficult forms to write.

In this one-week course with author Gretchen Shirm, participants will discuss the short story form as a narrative in miniature, looking at Ernest Hemingway’s ‘iceberg’ theory, and the way the short story often works by what is left unsaid.

You will consider examples of short stories as different ways in which the short story structure can be realised, such as through precision, absence and clarity.

Participants will also examine ways of finding voice and the techniques of short story writers such as Anton Chekhov, Anne Enright, Lauren Groff, Melissa Lucashenko, and Elizabeth Strout, to name a few.

Since endings are often defining of the short story form, we will discuss different approaches to endings and how an ending might be uncovered as we write. Finally, we will consider the way the short story, though small, expands outwards, drawing in meaning that extends beyond its own words.

This writing course, Online: Crafting Short Stories with Gretchen Shirm, will be held online.

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