The Art of the Short Narrative

4 Mondays 6:30 pm—9:30 pm April 7—28 (Vancouver)
Instructor: Stephen Osborne
Fee $260 / WRIT 603

This advanced course in writing short narratives (a few pages in length), with special attention to the craft of sentence-making and the art of paragraphing, is for writers who wish to enhance their narrative powers. Fiction and non-fiction forms will be considered in a series of intensive writing workshops, with close study of work by Wright Morris, Thomas Bernhard, Joan Didion, Gianni Celati, Jorge Luis Borges and other masters of short narrative. Please note that you should have experience writing narrative, and be prepared to develop and workshop pieces in class.

Stephen Osborne is the editor of Geist magazine and author of Ice and Fire: Dispatches from the New World (Arsenal Pulp Press, 1998). In 2004 he was awarded a Vancouver Arts Award for Writing and Publishing and he won first prize in the CBC Literary Competition. He is a recipient of the Event Creative Non-Fiction Prize, three Western Magazine Awards for best column and a Maclean Hunter Arts Journalism Residency at Banff.