Wednesday 16 July 2025
3 days
9:30 am
2:30 pm
Some of the elements that will be covered during the week include:
• The special nature of the short story.
• The short story’s relationship to the novel – and whether the process of writing one is different to the other.
• Analysis and discussion of extracted classic and contemporary short fiction (provided during the class).
• A technical introduction to ways of structuring a short story.
• Practical exercises – writing across different lengths of short fiction.
• Opportunities for creative discourse – and reading out some of what you have written – in a supportive and encouraging environment.
What to bring:
• Please bring along a collection of short stories or a single story that you particularly like. You’ll be encouraged to let the group know about it, therefore helping each other to widen your knowledge of different short stories and writers.
Ross Raisin is the author of four novels: A Hunger (2022), A Natural (2017), Waterline (2011) and God’s Own Country (2008). In 2013, he was named on Granta’s once-a-decade Best of Young British Novelists list. In 2018 he...
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