Using the Delete Key
There is an art to knowing how to frame a scene, a moment, a character. What you omit in a short story is more important than what you include. The tutors will guide you into ruthless revisions and encourage paring down prose. Brevity is all.
This course is fully booked. Please call the centre if you would like to be put on the waiting list or to discuss other courses.
Start Date:
Monday, 9th June 2008
End Date:
Saturday, 14th June 2008
Monday, 9th June 2008
End Date:
Saturday, 14th June 2008
Jackie Kay
Jackie Kay’s collections of short stories include Why Don’t You Stop Talking? and Wish I Was Here (both Picador).
Jackie Kay’s collections of short stories include Why Don’t You Stop Talking? and Wish I Was Here (both Picador).
Ali Smith
Ali Smith’s first collection, Free Love and Other Stories (Virago) won the Saltire First Book of the Year award, and a Scottish Arts Council award. Her most recent collection is The Whole Story and Other Stories (Granta). Her novel Hotel World (Penguin) won the Man Booker prize.
Ali Smith’s first collection, Free Love and Other Stories (Virago) won the Saltire First Book of the Year award, and a Scottish Arts Council award. Her most recent collection is The Whole Story and Other Stories (Granta). Her novel Hotel World (Penguin) won the Man Booker prize.
Maggie O'Farrell
Maggie O’Farrell’s short stories have been broadcast on BBC radio and her most recent novel is The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (Headline Review). Visit www.maggieofarrell.com.
This course is based at:
Moniack Mhor
Teavarran, Kiltarlity, Beauly
Inverness-shire
Tel: 01463 741675
Email: moniackmhor@arvonfoundation.org
Moniack Mhor
Teavarran, Kiltarlity, Beauly
Inverness-shire
Tel: 01463 741675
Email: moniackmhor@arvonfoundation.org
