Creative Saturday/Short Story: Dystopia

Course details

Jump on a current trend to set short stories in the uncomfortable, not-too-distant future. Explore how altered environments and situations can intensify relationships and put pressure on your protagonists in a series of exercises designed to create distinctive but elusive future-anxiety and compelling unease in your short stories.

Margaret Wilkinson has been a senior lecturer on the MA in Creative Writing at Newcastle University for over fourteen years. She writes script for both stage and radio, is a prose writer, mentor and regular contributor to Mslexia. Margaret gained her PhD in Creative Writing at Newcastle University.

Course fee: £40

In the unlikely event of the course being cancelled, a full refund will be given. Otherwise refunds are not available.