Short Story – Bernard MacLaverty & Claire Keegan, Guest A L Kennedy

Date/Time
Date(s) - Mon 13th Apr - Sat 18th Apr, 2015
12:00pm

Location
Moniack Mhor, Kiltarlity, Inverness-shire , IV4 7HT

The tutors will ask participants to consider and re-consider the structure of narrative.  What does it mean to begin?  What is tension?  And how and why does tension rise and fall – or not rise at all?  They will lead you through the structure of a paragraph and discuss how movement and static work within the short story.  All writers will be asked to have read Constance Garnett’s translation of Chekhov’s story A Misfortune in advance of the course.

Claire Keegan’s debut, Antarctica, was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. In 2007, Walk the Blue Fields was published and went on to win The Edge Hill Prize. Foster (2010) won The Davy Byrne Award, judged by Richard Ford. Her stories have been published in Granta, The Paris Review, Best American Stories, The New Yorker and translated into 14 languages.

Bernard MacLaverty has published five collections of short stories, including Matters of Life & Death, and Walking the Dog. Formerly from Northern Ireland, he now lives in Glasgow.  www.bernardmaclaverty.com

Guest

A L Kennedy is considered one of the finest short story writers in the UK. She’s written six collections, the most recent being All the Rage.

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