The South Coast Writers Centre presents a 4-week online writing course on short fiction led by writer, poet, editor and workshop facilitator Linda Godfrey.

Each week, Linda can either workshop a story you have already begun to write, or she can set exercises to give you a leaping-off point to begin writing. Participants will submit their writing, from microfiction to 2,500 words, by email to Linda and she will provide feedback.

This course is intended for those with an interest in improving or starting to write short fiction, and does not require any previous experience in studying this subject.

Linda will encourage participants to create a joint Facebook page or Zoom meetings so that you can provide support and encouragement for each other as you work through the program. The group may consider meeting in person at the South Coast Writers Centre in Coledale NSW to continue as a writing group.

This course will be run by email correspondence submitted each Wednesday, begins on 22 June and runs for four weeks.

COURSE FACILITATOR

Linda Godfrey is a writer, poet and editor and has a Masters of Professional Writing from the University of Technology, Sydney. She has published poetry and short stories in anthologies and online. Linda was the Program Manager of the Wollongong Writers Festival 2015 to 2018. She is a fiction reader for Overland and was the online fiction editor for Overland Autumn 2018. Linda has a chapbook of prose poetry published, Count the Ways, won the AAWP’s First Chapter prize in 2021 and was shortlisted for the South Coast Writers Centre Poetry Prize in 2022. She lives on Wodi Wodi land, on the South Coast of NSW, land that has never been ceded.