In this online feedback clinic, author Rashida Murphy will provide feedback on your short fiction, enabling you to improve your skills over four months.
A short story ought to sustain both attention and imagination—a great short story leads the reader into a world where attention to detail is sustained by economy, complexity and depth. Rashida will provide targeted, individual feedback to improve your writing. This may include comments on plot, character, development and structure. Each month writers will be encouraged to focus on different aspects of the narrative form to create layered, nuanced stories. Some word prompts and links to specific texts may be provided to explore the links between language and form. Submit four stories or work on the same one through the clinic.
This online course takes place in our online forum.
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Details
- When: 16 March – 10 June
- Submission deadlines: Pieces of up to 1500 words due Tuesdays 18 March, 15 April, 13 May, 10 June.
- Where: Online
- With: Rashida Murphy
About the Tutor
Rashida Murphy is the author of the novel, The Historian’s Daughter (UWA Publishing, 2016) and a book of short stories titled The Bonesetter’s Fee & Other Stories, (Spineless Wonders, 2021), which was both a runner-up in the Carmel Bird Literary Award and shortlisted in the NSW Premier’s Multicultural Award. Rashida’s stories, poems and essays are widely anthologised. She has judged several literary awards including the WA Premier’s Literary Awards, the Hungerford Award and the 20/40 Publishing Prize. Rashida mentors emerging writers and lives in Boorloo/Perth with a multilingual cat and a monolingual husband. Information about her writing and the organisation she runs can be found here and here.