Course Information

Recorded on May 14th 2022.

Learn how to craft powerful narratives in as few words as possible from an award-winning short story writer. Working from a collective prompt, students will receive all information needed to pen a succinct-but-rich tale using a variety of tools, and will observe how to bring an idea from conception to a publishable draft, using the author’s own raw work as an example This course has been successfully featured in numerous libraries and writing organizations including the Alexandra Writer’s Centre Society, The Writer’s Guild of Alberta, and Pandemic University.

Instructor

Katie Bickell

Katie Bickell is author of the novel-told-in-short-stories Always Brave, Sometimes Kind. This book received the 2021 Indie Author Project Award for Alberta, the 2020 George Bugnet Award for Fiction, and was shortlisted for the 2020 ReLit Award for Best Novel. Earlier versions of the book’s chapters won the Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Story, the Writers Guild of Alberta’s Emerging Writer Award, and the Alberta Views Fiction Contest. Katie lives in Sherwood Park, Alberta, with her husband and children, where she is currently penning her second novel, Alskling.

Course curriculum

    1. Packing a Punch: Big Stories in Small Spaces - Webinar

About this course

  • $20.00
  • 1 lesson
  • 1 hour of video content

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