Workshop: Raise Your Short Story Game with Cynan Jones

Time and date

Wednesday 15 July 2026

Time

9:30 am

Ends

2:30 pm

Location

Curious Keys

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This workshop will run from Wednesday 15 to Friday 17 July, from 9.30am to 2.30pm each day with two breaks built into the day.

Join acclaimed Welsh writer Cynan Jones for a three-day workshop that will help give you the tools and motivation to make your short stories stronger.

Hands-on teaching sessions will get you working with the words themselves, with the why and what of your writing, and with key elements of good fiction such as structure, tone and impact. You’ll dig into the writing you’ve already done to find possibilities you might not have seen, provoke your characters, and set them into a compelling world.

During the workshop, each participant will also benefit from a 1-1 clinic to discuss a work in progress, which you’ll be invited to send for Cynan to read ahead of the course.

Max: 15 participants

Admission: €245 for 3 days

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Participants will be asked to submit up to 1,500 words from work in progress, along with some context for the extract they submit, and an idea of where they believe they are with their writing in general. This must be submitted by 1 July.

Writer

Cynan Jones

Cynan Jones won a Society of Authors Betty Trask Award 2007, a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize 2014, the Wales Book of the Year Fiction Prize 2015 and the BBC National...

Workshop: Raise Your Short Story Game with Cynan Jones

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Cynan Jones

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