Saying More with Less
LITERARY | WORKSHOP
Saying More with Less
The Art of the Short Story with Gerard Beirne
Thurs 10 July | 2pm
Event Details
Times & Dates:
Thurs 10 July | 2pm
Duration:
2 hours
Event Categories:
Literary, Workshop
Admission:
€20
Age Suitability:
18+
Venue:
Yeats Building, Hyde Bridge.
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Discover how the elements of short fiction fuse to create powerful and concise narratives that reveal larger truths about the human condition. This immersive session will explore how a story’s structure uses setting, plot, point of view, time, etc., to create unity and actively shape our understanding of characters and their conflicts. This workshop is suitable for emerging and experienced writers.
Gerard Beirne has published eight books of poetry and fiction. Most recently, he’s published the novel The Thickness of Ice (2024) and the poetry collection The Death Poems (2023). Gerard is a winner of the Hennessy New Irish Writer of the Year Award and has been shortlisted for The Kerry Group Novel of the Year Award, The Danuta Gleed Award (best first collection of short stories in Canada) and the Bord Gais Irish Book Awards. Gerard currently lectures on the BA Writing and Literature Program at ATU Sligo.