Starting and Finishing Stories with Ben Walter

Some of the most difficult elements of writing short stories include developing a gripping opening, and closing out the ending in a way that resonates with readers. In this workshop, we'll spend time discussing how we can do this more effectively, workshopping a range of possibilities to draw readers into our stories and then impact them in way that lingers well beyond the page.

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 and the poetry collection Lithosphere. 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 regularly in Australia’s major periodicals, including Meanjin, Overland, Island, Griffith Review and The Saturday Paper.

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Cancelling your registration four days or more before the workshop: you can request a 50% refund of the fee.

Cancelling your registration within four days of the workshop: there is no refund of the fee. However, instead of forfeiting the fee, you can do another workshop for half price.