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SUMMARY:Event: Lucy Caldwell & Nell Stevens\, Short Story Magic
DESCRIPTION:BBC National Short Story Award-winning Lucy Caldwell (author of Openings and These Days) and Nell Stevens (author of The Original and Somerset Maugham Award-winning Mrs Gaskell & Me) are both masters at catapulting you into characters’ lives\, conjuring entirely new worlds in a matter of pages. In this conversation they discuss their new story collections\, Devotions and The Good Time\, talking stories of love\, grief\, haunted lives\, emotional crossroads\, and irresistible humour with Di Speirs.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/event-lucy-caldwell-nell-stevens-short-story-magic/
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SUMMARY:Event: WRITE Festival at The Word\, South Shields
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate stories\, poetry\, writing and everything in between with another fantastic line up of events\, workshops and performances. \nAvid readers can look forward to a brilliant mix of author talks featuring local talent\, regional writers and bestselling favourites. We have two costume talks\, creative calligraphy\, a regency tea dance workshop and lots more. \nIf you’re a writer looking for feedback on your work\, interested in poetry\, or eager to learn how to get published\, we’ve got a whole host of workshops just for you. You’ll also have the chance to get advice and insights from industry professionals. \nWe will be closing the festival on Saturday 26 September as Bay Tales return with The Word is Murder – South Tyneside’s Crime Fiction Festival. \nEvents will be taking place at The Word\, with some at Cleadon Park\, Jarrow Focus and Hebburn Central too.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/event-write-festival-at-the-word-south-shields/
LOCATION:The Word
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SUMMARY:Event: Short Story September Festival\, Phoenix Leicester
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by short story publisher Dahlia Books\, the Short Story September Festival is the ultimate weekend for writers looking to master the art of writing short stories. \nOur main festival sessions will take place on Saturday 20th September in Leicester. \nAdditional writing workshops will take place on Sunday 21st September via Zoom. \nAll online workshops will be recorded and will be available on playback for up to 30 days. \nBook your ticket via the Eventbrite box office. \nFESTIVAL PROGRAMME (subject to change) \nSaturday 20th September 2025 – Phoenix Square\, Leicester \n10.30 AM Registration & Warm-up workshop \nIn this warm-up workshop\, we will start generating new ideas for fiction by playing a series of writing games and prompts. Meet in the Phoenix cafe. \n11 AM – 12 PM Developing Your Short Story Craft – Panel Discussion \nIn this panel discussion on developing your craft\, writers Catherine Menon\, Rebecca Burns\, Laura Besley and Jonathan Taylor will share their writing process\, the tools and tricks they use to master the short story form\, and discuss how and why they return to writing short stories alongside their other works and responsibilities. \n12 PM comfort break \n12.15 – 1 PM – Interactive roundtable: Is Writing Short Stories Sustainable? \nIn this interactive roundtable and listening space\, we will split up into groups to share our experiences of writing short stories. We will discuss what we’ve heard about working in this form\, from family and friends\, and publishing professionals and begin to answer the question whether writing short stories is sustainable? If you love the form but are constantly told you should be working on a novel\, this session will nourish your soul. This session will be facilitated by Dahlia Books authors. Post it notes\, pens and paper will be provided. \n1 – 2 PM – Lunch (not included) \n2 – 3 PM Abi Hynes and Malachi McIntosh in conversation \nWinner of this year’s Edge Hill Short Story Prize Debut and author of Parables\, Fables\, Nightmares Malachi McIntosh will be in conversation with Abi Hynes\, fellow shortlisted writer and author of Monstrous Longing. This session will be followed by a Q&A. \n3 – 3.45 PM Everything You Wanted to Know About a Small Press But Were Too Afraid to Ask \nWhat does a small press do\, and how do they support a short story writer get their work out there? How are they set-up and do they pay an advance? From submitting your work to a small press to handling distribution and subsidiary rights\, this session is your opportunity to put your questions to Farhana Shaikh and have them answered – with no question off the table! Participants can submit their questions in advance via email to f.shaikh@dahliapublishing.co.uk. \n3.45 PM Comfort break / Doors open for ceremony only \n4 – 5 PM – Leicester Writes Short Story Prize Ceremony \nThe Leicester Writes Short Story Prize was set up in 2017 to recognise and reward the best short story writing talent. Join us to celebrate this year’s fantastic long-listed writers and listen to the short stories that made it to our top 20 from just under 400 entries! Our prize anthology featuring all 20 short stories will be launched on the day. Readers on the night tbc. \nSunday 21st September 2025 – Zoom\, online \n10.30 AM Registration & Warm-up workshop \nIn this warm-up workshop\, we will mine our personal histories and life experiences to generate material for short stories. You will leave with a handful of fragments and titles. Please bring a photograph of you as a child to the session. \n11.00 – 12.15 PM The Significance of Voice Workshop \nIn this workshop Mona Dash\, Catherine Menon\, and Reshma Ruia – members of The Whole Kahani – will discuss the crucial building blocks for writing authentically. They will examine different types of voices\, cread and discuss their own writing\, and give us a peek behind the workshopping process they use to develop their single author collections and their group’s anthologies. \n12.15 – 1.30 PM Lunch break – virual brownies and tea for all \n1.30 – 2.45 PM How to Pitch a Short Story Collection Workshop \nIn this session with publisher Farhana Shaikh\, participants will learn what makes a good pitch for a short story collection. We will look at live pitches received by Dahlia Books\, think about what makes a successful pitch\, and have a go at writing and pitching our own collections. You will leave feeling confident in approaching publishers and talking about your stories to absolutely anyone. \n3 – 4.10 PM Planning a Short Story in 60 Minutes Workshop \nIn this workshop with three-time novelist\, short story writer and editor Leone Ross\, participants will learn how to plan a beginning\, middle\, and end of a short story in just 60 minutes. You will leave with the bones of a new short story to work on. \n4 – 4.30 PM – Plenary \n\n\nBooking & payment\n\nBook your place via Eventbrite. \nYou can join us in person\, or online\, or for the entire weekend. \nTicket prices vary. From £25 (plus booking fee).
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/short-story-september-festival-phoenix-leicester/
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SUMMARY:Event: Sahra Hersi\, Stories and Symbols as Tools for Making (CPD Session) at Charleston House\, Sussex
DESCRIPTION:Join artist and educator Sahra Hersi for a free CPD (continuing professional development) session. \nConnected to our Reimagine project\, a creative learning programme developed with Year 9 students from Priory School in Lewes\, this session is open to all educators and practitioners interested in creative learning\, including teachers\, youth workers\, social workers\, artists and home educators. \nSahra will share an insight into her practice\, which uses stories\, motifs and symbols as tools for collective making. Her work begins with conversations and time spent with people and places\, translating individual ideas and experiences into shared artworks. \nSahra will lead a practical collage activity exploring the idea of an animal as a personal symbol or ‘familiar’\, representing companionship\, protection or something more personal. Using a limited palette of coloured paper\, participants will create individual animal motifs before bringing them together as one collective tile panel. Through cutting\, collage and composition\, you will explore an accessible approach to collaboration that can be adapted for use with young people in educational and community settings. \nSpaces are limited\, so please register to reserve your free place. \nFor more information\, please contact Natasha Holdgate\, Learning Manager at n.holdgate@charleston.org.uk
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/event-sahra-hersi-stories-and-symbols-as-tools-for-making-cpd-session-at-charleston-house-sussex/
LOCATION:Charleston House
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SUMMARY:Event: Classics Book Club at Hatchards\, Piccadilly; Japanese Ghost Stories
DESCRIPTION:The Classics Book Club meets on the first Thursday of each month here at Hatchards\, Piccadilly. This book club will instead take place one week ahead of schedule\, on Thursday\, 29th October. \nThis month’s book is: “Japanese Ghost Stories” by Lafcadio Hearn. \nThe dead wreak revenge on the living\, paintings come alive\, spectral brides possess mortal men and a priest devours human flesh in these chilling Japanese ghost stories retold by a master of the supernatural. \nLafcadio Hearn drew on the phantoms and ghouls of traditional Japanese folklore – including the headless ‘rokuro-kubi’\, the monstrous goblins ‘jikininki’ or the faceless ‘mujina’ who stalk lonely neighbourhoods – and infused them with his own memories of his haunted childhood in nineteenth-century Ireland to create these terrifying tales of striking and eerie power. Today they are regarded in Japan as classics in their own right. \nTickets include £3 off the purchase of next month’s Book Club book. \n 
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/classics-book-club-at-hatchards-piccadilly-japanese-ghost-stories/
LOCATION:Hatchards\, 187 Piccadilly\, London\, W1J 9LE
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