H G Wells Short Story Competition: Creative Writing Workshop. Iceberg!

The annual HG Wells Fiction Short Story Competition offers a £500 Senior and £1,000 Junior prize and free publication of all shortlisted entries in a quality, professionally published paperback anthology.We also run a series of writing workshops each each year and our annual awards ceremony in November.

HG Wells Short Story Competition

The H G Wells Short Story Competition have organised two online writing workshops for aspiring writers of all ages led by Sarah Anthony.

These two hour-long sessions are designed to explore the idea of the ‘unspoken’ in the short story through Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Iceberg Theory’.Participants are asked to attend both sessions to make best use of this workshop.Session 1 at 1100 on 23 May will look at the theory and analyse a short story by Hemingway which will be available to all participants. At the end of the class students will be set a creative writing assignment to be emailed to the tutor mid-week.These assignments will be emailed anonymously to the rest of the group.Session 2 at 1100 on 30 May will give the opportunity for constructive peer and tutor feedback.Please note that we will be observing the same protocols as the Short Story Competition where all submissions are also judged anonymously.The two free workshops offer aspiring writers the opportunity to learn, write and share ideas online.Both of our free workshops will be held via Zoom with Sarah Anthony. Participants will be limited to 14 on a first come first served basis so sign up now!Login details and course details will be emailed to registered participants by no later than 8pm on 22nd May by Sarah Anthony. Please watch your email after registration for her message.Sarah AnthonySarah Anthony graduated from Bristol University with a degree in English and French literature and did her MA with the Open University, specialising in postcolonial literature She has worked for the School of English at the University of Kent, co-ordinating their part-time programmes in English and American literature and Creative Writing and acting as academic advisor to international students.Sarah has 15 years’ experience lecturing and teaching university undergraduates and adult learners at the University of Kent, for the Workers’ Educational Association and for the U3A. She has taught on subjects as disparate as the plays of Christopher Marlowe and the writers of the Windrush Generation, and has taken part in a TV documentary on E M Forster for international arts and culture channel ARTE.  Current projects include the novels of John Steinbeck, the Bloomsbury Group, and 20th century Russian literature.[Photo credit: AWeith / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iceberg_in_the_Arctic_with_its_underside_exposed.jpg]

Our {communityGuidelinesLink} describe the sort of content we prohibit on Eventbrite. If you suspect an event may be in violation, you can report it to us so we can investigate.

To report other categories of prohibited or illegal content, submit {link}

H G Wells Short Story Competition: Creative Writing Workshop. Iceberg!

More events from HG Wells Short Story Competition

Discover more events from HG Wells Short Story Competition, from Hobbies to other experiences you might love.

Still looking for the right event?

Explore all online events to browse and filter by date, category, and more.

H G Wells Short Story Competition: Creative Writing Workshop. Iceberg!

More events from HG Wells Short Story Competition

Discover more events from HG Wells Short Story Competition, from Hobbies to other experiences you might love.

More Hobbies events

Browse more Hobbies events with different dates, prices, and formats to find your next great experience.

Still looking for the right event?

Explore all online events to browse and filter by date, category, and more.