This course will focus on what exactly is worth writing about: the interior life or the social world and in what proportions. The course will explore advanced techniques and approaches to writing compelling short stories. Participants will read classic short stories and undertake exercises leading to the creation of a short story.
Akhil Sharma was born in Delhi in India and emigrated to the USA in 1979. His stories have been published in the New Yorker and in Atlantic Monthly, and have been included in The Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Prize Collections. His first novel, An Obedient Father, won the 2001 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. He was named one of Granta’s ‘Best of Young American Novelists’ in 2007. His second novel, Family Life, won The 2015 Folio Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award 2016. Sharma is currently a Fellow at The New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.
Please note particiants are required to attend all the 6 workshops. The first will take place on 18 Sep.
VENUE: Online
LINK: To be provided to registrants
EVENT WEBSITE: ACWP (for registration)
DATE AND TIME
18, 25 Sep and 2, 9, 16, 23 Oct 2021, 8pm–10.30pm, $190 / $75