If you love short stories and you want to hone your craft, become a better, more critical reader, you will love this course with the brilliant award-winning short story writer, Zoe Gilbert.
The course involves repeated reading and discussion as a group, with the aim of learning critical reading skills and how to read deeply as a writer in order to unpack the technique behind prose. ‘Looking under the hood’, as it were, but digging much deeper than we usually do.
It's an unusual course in that you will read the same two short stories together over the course of five weeks, meeting five times, each meeting focusing on a specific aspect of craft. Zoe will take you through setting, character, structure, language and metaphor, in that order.
If you love short stories, please listen to Zoe tell you more about this course above, and we are also offering a discount to all subscribers of The Writing Laboratory (both free and paid!). You can book by clicking on this link Craft Lab: Interrogating Fiction-writing Techniques and use this discount code WRITE15 for 15% off.
Here are some testimonials for Zoe’s Craft Lab from past participants:
‘Focusing on two stories from multiple angles and layers each week gave us the opportunity to dig deep down, and get to the absolute bones and heart of each in a way I've never done in quite that way before. It has changed me both as a reader and a writer.’
‘Zoe has an inspiring, warm and light-touch teaching style. She strikes that perfect balance of bringing her own unique insight and interpretation whilst making sure there is a huge, and also supportive and trusting space for the group to contribute our own thoughts and views, and debate and discuss those together.’
‘I loved the choice of stories on this course as both were new to me. The group was full of wise, thoughtful readers and writers and it felt like such a supportive space to talk freely, and I think this was as much about Zoe's expert facilitation as it was about what a lovely group it was.’
‘Zoe is great in the way she accepts and affirms each person's contribution, listening carefully to what they say and then developing/ building on it. She was also super well prepared and her insights are always valuable.’
‘I really enjoyed it, I felt the weekly zoom discussions were so well managed, brilliantly facilitated discussion where I felt like I was really learning new ideas and perspectives, and felt my own ideas were valued. A fantastic experience (one of the best I've had in a creative writing/ story class)’
‘Illuminating Comprehensive Welcoming’
‘I loved it!’
Also! Zoe is doing a live Radio event tomorrow, talking about folklore, and the symbolism of salt, and the link if you are interested is here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00289xw
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