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Online: Beginners Short Story Clinic

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Laura Jean McKay

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Every story begins with a messy first draft. This beginners’ clinic is a constructive and supportive environment that will help you identify the strengths and weaknesses of your story, learn the elements of your craft and provide direction for your next draft.

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Laura Jean McKay

Details

Receive direct feedback from your tutor and fellow course participants with this online course for those just starting out in short story writing.

Stories of up to 1,500 words due midnight Wednesdays 7 February, 7 March, 4 April, 9 May and 6 June

You will learn

  • what makes a short story work
  • how to find your story’s thread
  • characterisation and point of view
  • story structure
  • the art of constructive feedback.

Tasmanian Writers Centre members are welcome to book in at the member rate.

About Laura Jean McKay

Laura Jean McKay is the author of ‘Holiday in Cambodia’ (2013), shortlisted for three national book awards in Australia, including the Asher Award in 2015. Her work has appeared in ‘The Best Australian Stories’, ‘Award-Winning Australian Writing’ and The North American Review, and she won the Alan Marshall Short Story Award in 2011. Laura is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne.

Read more about our other online courses, digital intensives, clinics and webinars:

Online: Digital Fantasy Novel Intensive, 15 January

Online: Intermediate Short Story Clinic, 7 February

Online: Advanced Short Story Clinic, 21 February

Online: Poetry Clinic, 21 February

Online: How to Write… about your work, 19 March

Online: Storytelling for Social Change, 15 May

Online: Digital Memoir Intensive, 12 June
 

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Registration for this event ended on 07 February 2018 - 4:00
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