Small Wonder: THE short story festival. 23-26 September 2010

asham atelier

Brief Encounters

Stella Duffy	Hari Kunzru

Alice Munro, the modern mistress of the short story, described it as ‘a world seen in a quick glancing light’. Carver’s famous maxim was ‘Get in. Get out again. Don’t linger’. No wonder the perfect short story is notoriously hard to accomplish. Two of our sharpest and most innovative authors, Stella Duffy and Hari Kunzru, share top writing tips and provide insights into structure, character, dialogue and different types of story. A unique opportunity to develop your own ideas and create new work by means of improvisation and theatre techniques as well as traditional writing methods.

Stella Duffy has written forty short stories, including several for BBC Radio 4, and won a CWA Short Story Dagger Award. Her twelve novels include The Room of Lost Things, State of Happiness and her latest, Theodora, about the legendary empress. She also writes plays and is an actor and theatre director. Hari Kunzru was named as one of Granta’s best of young British novelists. He is the author of the short story collection, Noise, and three novels - Transmission, The Impressionist and My Revolutions. He is also a journalist and has recently won a Pushcart Prize for one of his stories. He lives in New York.

Students will work with both tutors and in groups as well as individual sessions.

Dates: Thursday 23 and Friday 24 September
Fee: £185 (students £165) for two-day workshop, inclusive of two public events on Thursday and two on Friday evenings, plus lunch, tea and coffee each day, as well as entrance to Charleston.
Registration: 9.30am; finish 4.30pm. Events 6pm and 8pm Thursday and Friday
Refreshments on sale prior to evening events and throughout weekend.
Booking: Asham Atelier & Outsider Events only: 01323 811 626: h.wood@charleston.org.uk
Venue: Workshops will take place at Charleston and Tilton House (pictured above), the former home of Maynard Keynes, a short walk from Charleston.