Comma Press Online Short Story Course with SJ Bradley
21 Sep 2021 - 6.30PM
Venue: Zoom (free video conferencing platform)
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Price: Full price places are £150, a limited number of bursary places (for low-income writers in receipt of means-tested benefits and single parent writers) are £75.
Attendees must pay for full course - individual course units not available separately.
Dates: Six workshops, held fortnightly on Tuesdays, to enable you to complete writing assignments:
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This course is about the short story …
Over the course of 6 workshops, you’ll get a handle on the predominant narrative structures and techniques used by short story writers, and implement them in your own work, including how to improve the characterisation, dialogue, and narrative voice. You'll discuss exemplary short stories selected by the tutor, and discuss as a group, before being set tasks and prompts to encourage and inspire you to write between sessions.
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About the Tutor:
SJ Bradley is a K Blundell Trust award winning writer from Leeds, UK, whose short fiction has appeared in various journals and anthologies including New Willesden Short Stories 7, Queen Mobs, Litro magazine, and in the Comma Press books Resist! and Conradology. She is the editor of the Saboteur Award-winning anthology Remembering Oluwale, which is available from Valley Press. Her first two novels including Guest, one of Morning Star's Books of The Year 2017, are published by Dead Ink Books.
She has previously been fiction editor at Strix magazine, director of the Northern Short Story Festival, and organiser of non-profit literary social Fictions of Every Kind. She has been writer in residence for First Story in Bradford and Leeds, and was writer in residence at Alton Towers through the Liminal Residency. She tweets @bradleybooks / www.sjbradleybooks.com
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