• Saturday, 21 October 2023

• 9:30 am  12:30 pm

• The Carrington15-47 Katoomba StreetKatoomba, NSW, 2780Australia

• Purchase Tickets HERE

Part of the Blue Mountain Writers’ Festival

Are you interested in writing short stories? This interactive three-hour course facilitated by Belfast-based writer Jan Carson will guide you through the basics of writing imaginative and engaging short stories.

Focusing on key themes such as developing ideas, writing believable characters, dialogue, plot, structure, pacing and conciseness, this workshop will also look at how to engage your readers from the very first line and hold their attention to the final word. Packed with useful tips and exercises, all you need for this workshop is a notebook, a pen and your imagination.

A writer and community arts facilitator based in Belfast, Jan Carson is the author of three novels, including The Fire Starters (2019), and The Raptures (2022), which was shortlisted for the 2022 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year. Jan’s second novel, The Fire Starters (2019), won the EU Prize for Literature for Ireland and was shortlisted for the Dalkey Novel of the Year Award. She published a short-story collection, Children’s Children, in 2016, followed by two micro fiction anthologies, Postcard Stories (2017) and Postcard Stories 2 (2020). 

This event is proudly sponsored by The Bridge Awards.