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Online Writing Clinic: Emerging Short Story

Date:

With:

Laurie Steed

Rating:

EARLY, EMERGING

Summary:

Receive direct feedback from your tutor and fellow course participants with this online writing group and five stories over five months. Whether you’re an experienced writer working towards the completion of a manuscript or looking to maintain momentum and sharpen writing skills, this clinic provides sustained mentorship and specific feedback on the refinement of your own voice and style.

A portrait of Laurie Steed

Details

1500 word short stories are due 11:59pm on Wednesdays 29 January, 26 February, 25 March, 22 April, 20 May. Feedback will be delivered Thursdays 6 February, 5 March, 2 April, 30 April, 28 May

You will learn:

  • How to create memorable, innovative short fiction that knowingly plays against type.
  • Ways to selectively stretch character and descriptive passages to ensure the greatest level of originality in every line of prose.
  • Sensory images and the importance of sight, sound, smell, touch and taste in creating a wholly immersive experience for the reader, editor, or competition judge.
  • The third option and how it allows you to break away from archetypal narratives and clichéd story arcs
  • Targeted narrative techniques to help your work get noticed, published and appreciated.

About Laurie Steed

Laurie Steed is the author of the 2018 WA Premier’s Book Awards Shortlisted Novel You Belong Here, and the editor of Shibboleth and other stories. His fiction has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and has been published in Best Australian Stories, Award Winning Australian Writing, The Age, Meanjin, Westerly, Island and elsewhere. His non-fiction has been published by The Courier Mail, Australian Book Review, Kill Your Darlings, Aerogramme Writer’s Studio, The Big Issue, The Emerging Writers Festival Reader, and The Emerging Writer: An Insider’s Guide to Growing Your Writing.

He won the 2012 Patricia Hackett Prize for Fiction, was shortlisted for the 2013 Bridport Prize, and is the recipient of fellowships and residencies form the University of Iowa, the Sozopol Fiction Seminars, Varuna, Writers Victoria, the Katherine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre and the Fellowship of Writers (WA).

Cancellation Policy

Venue:

Online
Australia

Contact:

Phone: 90947855
Email: [email protected]

Registration for this event ended on 28 May 2020 - 4:00
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