The Well Review: The Trickster - Short Fiction as Subversion with Sarah Byrne and special guests Kevin Barry and Gunnhild Øyehaug
This six-week online short story course looks at the character of The Trickster and also at how we can be tricksters in our own work. How can we mislead the reader? How can we reveal the reader to themselves? And how can writing be an act of mischief? Open to all genres of writers.
We will read and respond to work by short story masters such as Kevin Barry, Lydia Davis and Vladimir Nabokov. The class also includes a 1:1 feedback session.
Choose from a Tuesday morning or Thursday evening class.
Lead Tutor: Sarah Byrne is the Artistic Director of The Well Review, founded in 2016. She is a first-generation college graduate from Co. Cork and studied at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Cambridge (Masters in Criminology) and the University of Oxford (Masters in Creative Writing). She worked in mental health and criminal justice settings for a decade in England, Ireland and the United States. Her work has been published in The Irish Times, The New Statesman, Poetry Ireland Review and elsewhere. She has received awards for her writing projects from The Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation, the Arts Council of Ireland, Cork City & County Councils, The Design & Crafts Council Ireland and UNESCO.
Guest Week Three: Gunnhild Øyehaug was born in 1975 in Norway, and is an award-winning essayist and fiction writer. She teaches at the Academy of Creative Writing in Vestland, and has an MA in comparative literature from the University of Bergen. Her story collection Knots was published by FSG in 2017 in Kari Dickson’s English translation, followed in 2018 by the novel Wait, Blink, which was adapted into the acclaimed film Women in Oversized Men’s Shirts. In 2022, FSG published her novel Present Tense Machine and in 2023 the story collection Evil Flowers.
Guest Week Eight: Kevin Barry is the author of three novels and three short story collections, including most recently Night Boat to Tangier which was a New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and nominated for the Booker Prize, and That Old Country Music, which won the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. His other awards include the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Goldsmiths Prize, The Sunday Times EFG Bank Short Story Award and a Lannan Foundation Literary Award. He also writes plays and screenplays. His work has been translated into over twenty languages. His new novel, The Heart in Winter, will be published in the summer of 2024. He lives in County Sligo, Ireland.
Course Dates:
Tuesday mornings (10am-Midday) February 6th- March 12th 2024 (SOLD OUT-Email for Waitlist)
or
Thursday evenings (7pm-9pm) February 8th-March 14th 2024
Location: Online
Cost: €250
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