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Irish Writers Centre: The Anatomy of a Short Story with Sheila Armstrong
Tue 7 Jan 2025 to Mon 10 Feb 2025
What makes a short story work? From skin and bones to the beating heart, how do we bring them to life? In this course, we’ll take some great short fiction apart for parts, work on exercises to get to know our own writing, and try to breathe new life into our stories.
Course Outline:
Week 1. Voice – making language work.
Week 2. Eyes – choosing where to sit.
Week 3. Skin – building a universe.
Week 4. Bones – structure, or the lack of.
Week 5. Heart – epiphanies and disappointments.
Week 6. Stitching – shaping and editing.
Sheila Armstrong is a writer and editor from the northwest of Ireland. How To Gut A Fish, her first collection of short stories, was shortlisted for the Kate O’Brien Award and the Edge Hill Prize. Falling Animals, her debut novel, was shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize. Her short stories have been shortlisted for the Society of Authors Awards and the Irish Book Awards and have appeared in The London Magazine and The Stinging Fly. She is working on her second novel.
Dates: Tuesdays at 6.30pm - 8.30pm, 7 January - 10 February 2025
Location: Online
Cost: €190 (€171)
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Additional Information:
Location:
Online
Region(s):
International
Price:
€190 (€171)
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