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Tickets for Tessa Hadley’s online seminar Writing Summery v Writing Scenes are now sold out. To be added to a waiting list should there be cancellations please email Eoin at eoin@stingingfly.org.
As part of our Second Tuesday Series, we are delighted to offer an online craft seminar with Tessa Hadley entitled Writing Summary v Writing Scenes.
The seminar will be held via Zoom on Tuesday May 12th from 7pm – 8.30pm.
Tickets are now on sale. We expect demand to be high so please book early to avoid disappointment.
The Second Tuesday Series is intended to offer writers a space to gather, share their experiences, and learn from one another. All events are run online via Zoom from 7pm.
The series features writers in conversation, discussion with participants, as well as craft seminars.
The Seminar:
Writing Summary v Writing Scenes
with Tessa Hadley
7pm-8.30pm, Tuesday May 12th
‘One of the key aspects of writing short stories or novels is pacing. In constructing a narrative, one of the many choices a writer must make is between providing summarised descriptions of the flow of events over time, or plunging the reader into particular scenes, which will seem to happen slowly, blow by blow, in front of the reader’s mind’s eye. These are two different approaches to creating the illusion of life occurring – and time passing – on the page. It’s easy for writers to get stuck in an exhausting habit of writing ‘scene after scene’; but it can be tiresome too if the fiction never touches down in time, if it only summarises everything.
For this session, we’ll start by talking about the different energy of writing summary and scenes, by looking at a story by Mavis Gallant called ‘1933’ (it’s in a new Pushkin Press selection I’ve made of her stories, called The Latehomecomer).’
Tickets to attend seminar:
Full price: €25 / Unwaged and low income price: €15
The seminar will be conducted via Zoom with a maximum of 45 participants. Places are available on a first-come, first-served basis. We are unable to refund tickets once purchased.
Participants will receive an email prior to the date of the seminar with a link to join the seminar. Please keep an eye on your spam or junk mail folder if you have not received the link before the seminar date.
Please note: This seminar is a live event and will not be recorded.
Tessa Hadley has published eight novels, including The Past, Late in the Day, and Free Love, three collections of short stories and, most recently, a novella, The Party. Her short stories appear regularly in The New Yorker, and she reviews for The Guardian and the London Review of Books; she was awarded a Windham Campbell prize for Fiction and the Hawthornden Prize in 2016, and the Edge Hill Prize in 2018.
