Starting and Finishing a Short Story

Details

You can find details of how Covid-19 restrictions will affect the workshop here: https://writersvictoria.org.au/about-us/covid-19-information/. You are encouraged to wear a mask in the workshop space. The Wheeler Centre’s policy is that close contacts should not attend the building. If you are a close contact of somebody with Covid-19, or have Covid-19 symptoms yourself, please do not attend; please contact [email protected] to arrange a refund in this situation.

You Will Learn:

• How to start a story, including how to generate ideas and begin writing
• How to craft a story sentence by sentence
• Where to end a short story and how to know when you are finished with a first draft
• How to revise a short story and to create a revision practice
• How to send out stories for publication and other next steps

About the Tutor:

Paige Clark is a Chinese/American/Australian fiction writer, researcher and teacher. Her first book of fiction, She Is Haunted, was published by Allen & Unwin in 2021 and shortlisted for the Readings Prize and longlisted for the Stella Prize. She has her Master of Creative Writing, Editing and Publishing from the University of Melbourne, where she is currently at work on her PhD.

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