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A good short story can convey an entire world in just a few thousand words and will continue to reverberate in the reader’s mind long after the last sentence. But how is that achieved? In this masterclass, join prize-winning writer and editor Vicky Grut as we consider the key ingredients for creating short fiction that sings. What kind of material works and what does not? Where do you begin and how do you end? Learn techniques in concision that will help you hone your short fiction skills as well as sharpening all of your writing.
This workshop will include practical exercises, so please bring writing materials.
Vicky Grut’s short fiction has been published in anthologies and collections by Picador, Granta, Serpent’s Tail and Bloomsbury, and has won or been shortlisted for a number of prizes, including the Asham award and the Trip Fiction prize. Her collection Live Show, Drink Included was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize in 2019. She also writes nonfiction and memoir. She was a contributor to Garden Among Fires: A Lockdown Anthology, and her work has been published in Psyche/Aeon magazine in the UK, and Kitchen Table Quarterly and Harvard Review in the US. A personal essay, ‘Into the Valley’, was listed in Best American Essays 2013. She has worked in academic publishing as a copy editor and she currently teaches creative writing at the City Lit Institute and the University of Greenwich. Vicky is a TLC Editor providing feedback on short stories, fiction, and memoir.
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