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ONLINE The Short Story: That Calling-Card Genre
8 WEEKS | THURSDAYS | 11-2PM MT | BEGINS MAY 2, 2024
Instructor: Dr. Darryl Whetter
MEMBER PRICE: $450.00 (with member coupon AWCSM25)
NON-MEMBER PRICE: $600.00
Few writing courses can put students on a path towards publication as rapidly as a short-story course. Short stories invite (and require) all the narrative fundamentals of storytelling found in movies, graphic novels, stage plays, etc.—character, desire, opposition, conflict, resolution, setting, theme—while also showcasing the hallmarks of novels: voice, prose, dialogue, etc. All that, and running the mile of the short story gets writers working on three-act narrative structure (aka beginning-middle-end) much more rapidly than running the marathon of the novel. The short story is both an accessible form for new writers and, Alice Munro knows, fiction at its finest.
This is an interactive online class using the Zoom web platform.
Professor Darryl Whetter (BAH, MA, PhD) is the author of seven books of fiction and poetry, including the 2023 collection #Travelsend: Poems at Travel’s End, and Canada’s first oil-sands novel, Our Sands (published by Penguin Random House). As an anthologist, he also curated and edited the books Teaching Creative Writing in Asia (2022) and Teaching Creative Writing in Canada (2024), both with Routledge. He also edited The Best Asian Short Stories 2022. His multi-genre writing has been included in Best Canadian Essays, Best Canadian Stories and Best Asian Short Stories 2020 as well as The Walrus, and The Brooklyn Rail. He has reviewed books for all of Canada’s major Anglophone newspapers, especially The Globe and Mail, as well as national CBC Radio. Recently, he was the inaugural program director of the first creative writing master’s program in Southeast Asia, in a degree conferred by Goldsmiths, University of London.
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