Workshop: The Short Story with Ross Raisin
- Professional Development
- €230
- St Finbarr’s Boys National School
- 16/07/2025 - 9:30 am - 2:30 pm
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This workshop will run from Wednesday 16 to Friday 18 July, from 9.30am to 2.30pm each day with two breaks built into the day.
This three-day course with Ross Raisin, winner of the 2024 BBC National Short Story Award, will provide a relaxed, creative environment for a close examination of the short story form. You will engage in the pleasure of reading and writing stories, and in the technical approaches involved in constructing them. Whether you are starting out or already working on a collection, you will be encouraged to focus on different aspects of the form, producing new writing as well as developing an expertise in re-writing, and leave at the end of the week with new work and a new range of skills, and confidence, to continue writing into the summer.
Max: 15 participants
Location:
Saint Finbarr’s Boys National School
Seskin, Bantry, Co. Cork
P75 NY51
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.
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