The Anatomy of a Short Story with Sheila Armstrong
Info
Date: January 7, 2025
Time: 2.00pm - 4.00pm
Duration: 6 weeks
Level: Intermediate |
Cost: €190 (€171)
Location: Online
This course will take place online on Tuesdays (6 sessions in total).
Course Summary:
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.
Course Outcomes:
A better understanding of short fiction and some raw material for our next stories.
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.
Booked out? To be added to the waiting list for this course, please email info@irishwriterscentre.ie.
