London Lit Lab: Short Story Gold Rush: Write your Way to the Treasure with Ruby Cowling
Do you want to write a great story so much that putting the words down is daunting? Do you find yourself waiting for the muse? This course is all about writing your way to the good stuff: digging up the sand, and the gravel, so that you can sift through it to find the gold.
On this course, award-winning short story writer and journal editor Ruby Cowling will guide you through the process of writing your way to the treasure. Each week you will write 2,000 words against the clock, no matter your mood or how ‘good’ the words are. Ruby’s assignments will help you mine those words and discover the glints of promise for the next stage of your story.
This course is aimed at all writers who want to get the words down and work towards a finished short story.
Ruby Cowling has been writing, studying, teaching and continuously imbibing short fiction for over a decade. She regularly reads for international and UK competitions; her own short fiction has been published in over 40 journals and anthologies and has won awards including The White Review Short Story Prize, the London Short Story Prize and the Edge Hill Readers’ Prize. Her collection This Paradise (Boiler House Press, 2019) was longlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and shortlisted for the 2020 Edge Hill Prize. She is an Arvon tutor and was formerly Managing Editor of Short Fiction journal. She is passionate about the short story form and keen to unlock its joys for as many other writers as possible.
Dates: 10th April – 28th May 2024
Location: Online
Cost: £245 (There is one half-price place available on this course.)
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