Short Story and Flash Fiction is a course in the Creative Writing and Authorship track, delivered by Al Qurain Training Center in Doha, Qatar, and taught by Anwar Abdulrahman Al-Taneeb, author of the very short story collection "Winged Dreams". It focuses on choosing the story's moment, compression and building the ending, and ends with a certificate of completion in cooperation with the International Business Council.
After this course, you will be better prepared for
- Choosing the moment worth telling.
- Compression: saying more in fewer words.
- Building an ending that serves the story's idea.
- Editing the story down to its right length.
Who is this course for?
- Graduates of Creative Writing Foundations
- Writers who want to develop their stories
- Writers of reflections who want to move into fiction
- People preparing to enter a literary competition
What do you receive?
- Course materials and sample short stories and flash fiction to analyse
- An applied project: a short story and pieces of flash fiction you write and revise during the course
- Exercises in compression and endings, with the trainer's notes on your text
- A certificate of completion from Al Qurain Training Center, in cooperation with the International Business Council
Why this programme?
The trainer has worked in this form herself: she published the very short story collection "Winged Dreams" in 2014 and has led the workshop "The Art of the Short Story". You learn from her how to shorten a story and keep its meaning.