Winning a short fiction competition is a great way into the publishing and literary industries. Many short story prizes and awards include literary agent representation as part of the prize, and many more offer lucrative prize money.
The winner of the BBC National Short Story Award gets £15,000. The Manchester Short Story Writing Competition has a top prize of £10,000. In fact, there is over £100,000 prize money for short fiction awarded every year.
This weekend course takes you through the art, craft and business of writing short stories and winning prizes. It will look at a range of recent prize-winning short stories and analyse the technical and literary devices that are being utilised for affect. It will then turn to the substance of the stories, before focusing on your own work and applying lessons learned to your writing.
The two-day course will be led by award-winning, bestselling and critically acclaimed writer, Michael Stewart. He is the author of nine books, including four novels and two short story collections, one of which was longlisted for the Edgehill Short Story Prize. He is the winner of the BBC Alfred Bradley Bursary Award, The Guardian’s Not-the-Booker Award, the H.E. Bates Short Story Prize, and many other awards. He was head of Creative Writing at the University of Huddersfield for nearly 20 years, and has taught the art, business and craft of short fiction for 18 years. He is the editor-in-chief of Grist Books and has edited many short story anthologies, including the recent Apocalypse Now? Stories for the End of the World. He is now the director of the Brontë Writing Centre.
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