Writing Unconventional Short Fiction with Ben Walter

How can we make our stories original and distinct? In this session, we’ll consider a range of examples and reflect on questions of voice, form, structure and emotional heft to consider what will help make our stories stand out from the crowd.

Ben Walter is a Walkley Award-winning essayist, a past fiction editor at Island, and the author of the acclaimed short story collection, What Fear Was. Internationally, his stories have appeared in The Cimarron Review (US), 3:AM Magazine (France) and The Kenyon Review (US), one of the world's most prestigious literary magazines. His work has appeared multiple times in Australia’s major periodicals, including Meanjin, Overland, Island, Griffith Review and The Saturday Paper, and his debut poetry collection, Lithosphere, is being published this year through Puncher & Wattmann.

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