Short Story: First Draft, First Edit

The Writing Squad

Editing your short story, with Leone Ross

SQUAD 10 If you are a Squad grad (1-9), and would like to be added to the reserve list for this workshop, please email Billie on billie@writingsquad.comAn uncompromising workshop in which Leone will explore how to edit the first draft of a short story and offer some hard golden rules that will last you forever and invite a lifelong relationship with the underlying idea. An hour of listening hard, an hour of activity. Leone was born in England and grew up in Jamaica. Her first novel, All The Blood Is Red was long listed for the Orange Prize in 1997. Her second Orange Laughter was published in the UK by Anchor Press. In 2013, her short story collection, Lipstick, Lighters, Pens &amp; Porn [now Come Let Us Sing Anyway] was shortlisted for Salt Publishing's Scott Prize. Her work was shortlisted for the VS Pritchett Award. She is presently Senior Lecturer in the Creative Writing department at Roehampton University in London. Leone Ross's most recent stories are 'The Mullerian Eminence', published in Closure: Black British Contemporary Writing and limited edition chapbook, The Woman Who Lived in A Restaurant . She has also published an essay, 'How To Write Weird Shit/Magic Realism' in The Art of the Novel.

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