Are you struggling to make progress with your fiction? Suffering with writer’s block? Have you started to hate your own work? If you write prose fiction and are experiencing staleness and self-censoring, this workshop is for you – whether your work is yet to be published or you have several publications behind you.
This workshop will help you refresh your writing. We’ll discuss examples of how other writers have used unconventional approaches to storytelling, and, based on extracts you’ve submitted to Ruby in advance, look at ways you might shock your own particular work back to life. We’ll also talk about what else stops us making progress and how we can overcome those barriers.
Ruby will tailor this small-group workshop in response to your individual work-in-progress (WIP), but rather than “workshopping” your WIP in the group, we’ll do short exercises, discussion and idea-sharing, taking a step back and giving you tools to apply afterwards.
Course participants will need to submit a sample of writing up to a maximum of 2,500 words, by the deadline of
27th September (two weeks before the workshop takes place). Please also send a short paragraph describing why you’re struggling with this piece of writing or your work as a whole.
Ruby Cowling was born in Bradford and lives in London. Her short fiction has won five competitions including The White Review Short Story Prize and the London Short Story Prize, and has been shortlisted by Glimmer Train, Aesthetica and the Gertrude Stein Award. She is Associate Editor at Short Fiction. Her collection This Paradise is forthcoming in 2019.
Date: 11 October 2018, 6:15 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: Room 9, The Albany, Douglas Way, London SE8 4AG
Cost: Non-Members £15 / Members £13.50 / Concessions £12
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