About This Training
Join author Lyndsey Croal for a workshop on different ways of experimentation in style and form, from flash fiction to longer fiction. This will include looking at epistolary fiction, interactive and choose-your-own-adventure narratives, ways to generate ideas from other media, unusual points of views, metafiction in short and long fiction, and other unconventional forms (like fiction through reviews, lists, adverts, audio transcripts, and more). We will look at published examples to explore what these authors did and what they achieved, followed by guided writing exercises to bring your own experimental stories to life. This workshop will be suitable for a range of writing levels, and of particular interest to writers working in flash and short fiction.
About Lyndsey Croal
Lyndsey is a Scottish author published in over eighty magazines and anthologies, including Apex, Analog, Weird Tales, Shoreline of Infinity, and Mslexia’s Best Women’s Short Fiction. She’s a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee, British Fantasy Award Finalist, and former Hawthornden Fellow. Her longer works include Have You Decided on Your Question (Shortwave), Limelight and Other Stories (Shortwave ‘24) The Girl With Barnacles for Eyes (Split Scream Volume Five, Tenebrous Press ‘24), and Dark Crescent (Luna Press ‘25).
In 2019, she co-founded Edinburgh Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers and feels fortunate to have such an active literary scene on her doorstep. Her writing is influenced by her professional background in climate and nature policy as well as her experience growing up in remote places.
She has also edited a number of projects including ‘Ghostlore: An Audio Fiction Anthology’ and Shoreline of Infinity Magazine’s Climate Change Special.
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