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Last chance to enter the festival competition!
If you've already bought your ticket you'll have the link and
prompt in the welcome email. If you haven't yet bought your
ticket, better get in quick if you want to be in with a chance of
winning some great prizes! Winners will be announced over the
weekend and their winning stories will be published in out
website and eligible for the 2022 Retreat West Awards.
You have until 1st August 2021 to send us your
150-word stories.
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Here's
what's happening over the festival weekend
We've got workshops to get you writing
featuring:
- KB Carle - Associate Editor at
Fractured Lit. and Editor at FlashBack Fiction.
- Catherine McNamara - Litro’s Flash
Fiction editor and flash/short fiction author.
- Gaynor Jones - Retreat West's book manager
and award-winning author.
- Amanda Saint - Retreat West founder,
author, publisher and tutor.
As well as panel Q&As with your favourite
literary magazine editors:
- Steve Campbell from Ellipsis Zine
- Janice Leagra from Janus Literary
- Tommy Dean from Fractured Lit
- Laura Danks from Virtual Zine
The Retreat West competitions reading panel will also be on hand
for you to ask all your burning questions and on the Sunday morning
we've got an inspirational session looking at how to write flashes
that really stand out:
Writing
Fantastic Flash with Nuala O’Connor
Tight, brief, tense, and precise, flash fictions throw us
in-and-out of the human condition in deep and surprising ways. In
this session, we will explore what makes a good flash and, as
editor at Splonk, Nuala will outline the kinds of things that
make her want to publish a story. Followed by Q&A.
Plus we'll be launching our anthology of winning stories from
the 2020 short story and flash fiction prizes and there will be
readings of the winning and shortlisted flash stories.
If you can't make any of the sessions live we'll be recording them
all and sending the links to the videos to everyone who has a
ticket after the weekend.
We can't wait! Hope to see you there!
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Want to write, or revise, your novel with support and
cheering on all the way and have a complete draft by next summer?
The Novel Creator Course starting in September 2021 is almost half
full now so better get your applications in quickly!
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Watch our
free webinar with Amanda Saint and CM Taylor where
they look at ways to make the themes and characters at the heart of
your novel really mean something so that they resonate with readers.
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 Start Your Novel
We know that a year-long course is not for everyone so if you're
writing a first draft of a novel, or revising one, or even just
thinking about writing one, then our Start Your Novel online course
can help you create a compelling story with memorable characters
that resonate with readers. A condensed version of our Novel
Creator Course, it enables you to work at your own pace to outline
your novel, get to know your characters and the world they live in,
and identify the themes at the heart of your story.
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ALL ABOUT FLASH FICTION WRITING
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Amanda Saint's brand new flash course is running again
in October. The first one started at the beginning of this month and
it's been so much fun, with writers on the course saying they are
writing in ways they never have before! Spaces limited to 12 writers.
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The hugely popular Fantastic Flashing 2 group course
is back in November. Spend 2 weeks creating new drafts and getting
feedback from Amanda Saint and your fellow writers to help you
develop them for submission. Stories written in the previous group
courses have recently appeared on the Bath Flash Fiction Award
longlist, as Editor's Choice in Janus Literary, and in several flash
journals here and in the US. Join and get writing! Spaces limited to
15 writers.
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Last chance to get your ticket in time to enter the
festival micro comp. You need to send stories by 1st August to be in
with a chance of winning one of the four brilliant prizes that will
be revealed over the weekend! The prompt is sent after you purchase a
ticket. We've got tickets for the whole weekend or individual day
tickets.
We've got an amazing line up of writers and lit journals who'll be
getting excited about all things flash, as well as a book launch, the
winners of the first Retreat West Awards, and the chance to submit
for the festival anthology!
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ALL ABOUT SHORT STORY WRITING
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Join Peter Jordan for his latest 6-week course focused
on writing literary fiction short stories. He'll dive deep into
character, setting, theme and prose and help you write the best short
stories you've ever written!
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The brilliant short story course from Amanda Huggins
is now available on our community website as a work-alone option
start anytime and she's also running a group course in September for
up to 12 writers.
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