Scottish Writers' Centre: Getting Started with London author Allen Ashley

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Getting Started – Generating Short Story Ideas: A practical writing workshop with Allen Ashley. Allen is an experienced tutor and runs several regular groups including Clockhouse London Writers. In this workshop, Allen will show you a range of ways to get started on short stories and how to improve your writing to make it more publishable. Allen’s workshops are always task-based and purposeful, so expect to be fully occupied throughout. Bring a pen, paper, something to lean on plus your imagination. You will go away fired with ideas and inspiration.

London author Allen Ashley is a leading editor of the independent press and one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary fiction. He is the author or editor of nine published books to date. In 2006, he won the British Fantasy Society award for Best Anthology as editor of The Elastic Book Of Numbers (Elastic Press, 2005). A specialist in the short form, he was the sole judge for the British Fantasy Society Short Story Competition 2012. His most recent book is as editor of Where Are We Going? (Eibonvale Press, 2012) – an anthology of stories about “Journeys. On Earth. No quests.”

www.allenashley.com