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Building a Better Short Story Collection

This workshop takes that any writer can throw together a bunch of great stories to publish as a collection, but questions whether great stories alone make a great book.

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Description

Eight Thursdays, Oct 9-Nov 27, 8-10pm
Open to all
Limited to 12 participants
Online Workshop*

This workshop takes as its premise that any writer can throw together a bunch of good or even great stories to publish as a collection, but questions whether great stories alone make a great manuscript, a great book. 

In looking at what binds a story collection, we’ll consider:

  • a few writers (like Alice Munro, Raymond Carver, Edward P. Jones, Amy Sands Brodoff, Zalika Reid-Binta, and Kaie Kellough)
  • critiques/reviews of their collections/books
  • participants’ own work/stories.

We’ll also look at excerpts from a journal that participants will be asked to keep during the workshop (and hopefully beyond). The journal will contain thoughts, such as story ideas, outlines for their collections, story order and contents, frustrations, and illuminations, on the evolution of their manuscript.

*This workshop will take place online via Zoom. A Zoom link will be sent to all registered participants a week or so prior to the first session. 

Workshop leader

Credit: Russell Watson
Robert Edison Sandiford is the author of several books, among them the story cycle Fairfield, the novel And Sometimes They Fly, and graphic novels with NBM Publishing.  He has been shortlisted for The Frank Collymore Literary Award and is a recipient of Barbados’s Governor General’s Award of Excellence in Literary Arts.  In 2003, he founded with the poet Linda M. Deane the Barbadian cultural resource ArtsEtc Inc.  He has worked as a publisher, teacher, and producer with Warm Water Productions.  His stories have appeared in journals, magazines, newspapers, and anthologies.  Currently, he’s busy with another novel, this time about fathers, sons, and dementia.
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QWF gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Government of Canada.