Body Horror: Short Story Course with Alison Rumfitt
Price: 200.00
Discount Price: 170.00
For underrepresented writers and writers in receipt of benefits.
About the event
Body Horror
Learn the gruesome art of body horror with acclaimed author Alison Rumfitt.
Participants on this course will create up to three short stories (up to 5k words) over the duration of this course. Your best story will be published in a Comma Press eBook to be sold online.
The theme of the course is body horror - a genre of horror that focuses on decay, transformation and mutilation of the human body so attendees are warned that some content may be disturbing.
As well as learning the genre conventions and techniques of body horror, writers will learn the basics of short storytelling that are applicable to all genres.
Open to all levels of experience.
Dates and Times:
6:15-8:15pm on Thursdays
April 17th
May 15th
June 12th
July 10th
August 7th
September 4th
Tickets are £200 for the whole course. We do not offer partial tickets.
A limited number of bursary tickets are available for £170 for underrepresented writers or those on a low income. To book without Eventbrite fees, or to apply for a bursary discount, email george.forster@commapress.co.uk.
PLEASE BE AWARE: If the minimum number of attendees is not reached by 1 month from the course start date, Comma Press may cancel or postpone. At this point, attendees will receive a full refund.
Alison Rumfitt is a writer and cultural critic. Her two horror novelsTell Me I'm Worthless andBrainwyrms push the boundaries of both taste and form to the shock of readers everywhere. She has written forLittle White LiesandDazed, and interviewed new Doctor Ncuti Gatwa forRolling Stone.
