Writing the City: Bradford Short Story Course

About the event

Writing the City: Bradford
Develop your skills in place-writing over six sessions with writer David Barnett.

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 focus of the course is place writing, so creating a strong sense of the city within your work will be the main criteria, however writers of all genres and niches are encouraged to participate! Open to all levels of experience.

Dates and Times:

6-8pm

Tuesday 11 February

Tuesday 11 March

Tuesday 8 April

Tuesday 6 May

Tuesday 3 June

Tuesday 1 July

Tickets are £65 for the whole course. We do not offer partial tickets.

To book without Eventbrite fees, email george.forster@commapress.co.uk.

PLEASE BE AWARE: If the minimum number of attendees is not reached by 1 week from the course start date, Comma Press may cancel or postpone. At this point, attendees will receive a full refund.

Thanks to Bradford Libraries for partnering with us on this exciting course.

Participants' work may also be considered for publication in the upcoming Comma Press anthology: The Book of Bradford, in association with Bradford 2025. Participants must be from or have a strong relationship to Bradford to be considered for publication in this anthology.

David Barnett is a journalist, novelist and comic book writer based in the North of England. After many years working in regional newspapers he became a full-time freelance writer in 2015 and as a journalist works primarily for the UK press. He is also the author of several published novels, including the bestselling CALLING MAJOR TOM, and writes comics for DC, IDW and others. David has also worked in training and lecturing, principally in journalism, and takes on commercial content commissions.