We are SO excited to be hosting Granta Best Young British Novelist and short-story writer extraordinaire Camilla Grudova for an intimate workshop in Edinburgh, intended to help you embrace the short story form in your own unique way. Here’s the blurb:

In her introduction to The Oxford Book of English short stories, A.S Byatt writes that many of the stories she chose ‘break all the rules of unity of tone and narrative. They appear to be one kind of story and mutate into another… they pack together comedy and tragedy, farce and delicacy, elegance and the grotesque.’

In this workshop we will learn to break the rules of what she calls ‘the well-made tale’,  ‘even-toned and neatly constructed’. We will look at the difference between unofficial rules we may be pressured to follow and the clichés we should dispose of.

Can I use dreams? Must a story have a revelation or psychological progression? We will wrangle with these questions and more, using examples from A.S Byatt’s anthology and beyond to discover that short does not mean narrow. 

To be held in-person at Edinburgh’s Argonaut Books, May 27th, 7-8:30pm

About the tutor:

Camilla Grudova lives in Edinburgh. She holds a degree in Art History and German from McGill University, Montreal. Her fiction has appeared in The White Review and Granta.

Her critically acclaimed debut collection, The Doll's Alphabet, was published in 2017. Her first novel, Children of Paradise, was longlisted for the Women's Prize. Her most recent book is a second collection, The Coiled Serpent. 

In 2023 she was named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, a once-in-a-decade accolade. 

Info:

The full price for this workshop is £40.

Half of the tickets are reserved for Pay What You Can pricing, which you can purchase in the ‘additional info’ section below. Please email us at hello@extrateeth.co.uk to make sure we have you registered.

The workshop will be held at Argonaut Books in Glasgow, which has step-free access, is at ground level and is fully accessible to all mobility needs.