Highly Irregular Newsletter #5
Dear TinyLetterers,
Well, it’s been a month since my last Highly Irregular communication, and it does look like, here in the Northern part of the globe, we’re slowly moving spring-wards! Is there a feeling of newness in the air where you are? Does that inspire you to try something a bit different with your writing? Booking opened today for a brand new online course I’m teaching through the London Lit Lab that is the one I wish I’d been offered when, as a short story writer, I began tiptoeing towards poetry: Poetry for Prose Writers!
“Are you a writer of sentences who has been eyeing the line break? Someone who deals in paragraphs but wonders about verses, stanzas, end rhymes? Does the word “poem” fill you both with excitement and trepidation as you wonder if you are, if you might be, if you’re allowed to…? Join Tania Hershman on the course she wishes she’d been offered as a short story writer tiptoeing towards poetry, wondering if she could…”
The course runs from 13 June – 7 August, and is asynchronous, so you can join from anywhere in the world, no need to be online at a particular time. More information and booking here, bursaries are available too, as always.
Other Workshops and Classes
April 23, 1-3pm New workshop alert! I’m delighted to be running my science-flavoured writing workshop at the excellent Poetry Pharmacy in Shropshire. Find out more here.
Final few places…on both the in-person monthly short and very short story course I’ll be running in Manchester from Tues April 4th - booking here - and my online 8-week flash fiction course with London Lit Lab, booking here.
Events and Readings
Last few tickets… for the in-person reading and Q&A next week at the excellent Grove Bookshop in Ilkley, W Yorkshire. Details here.
April 5th 7.15pm-8.15pm UK time I’ve had a wonderful six months as Arvon’s latest writer-in-residence, and for the culmination of my residency I’ll be doing an online reading from my new poetry collection and novel, and doing a Q&A – so come, let me read to you, and ask me anything you’d like! Booking here, hope to see you there!
Teaser: I’ll be the support act for a wonderful friend’s book launch in London next month, more details when I have them!
Quick Plug for FUEL Anthology
If you’re someone who teaches writing workshops and courses, can I highly recommend in a very unbiased way (!) the FUEL flash anthology I’ve edited and produced. I think it really is an amazing resource for writers, exploding the myths of what a “prize-winning” short story “should” look like - grab a copy of the book here and please do recommend it to your students, it’s a fantastic read, as well as raising money for fuel poverty charities!
And finally, welcome to new subscribers, lovely to have you - here’s the special secret page on my website if you’d like to buy some of my books with your subscriber discount!
Tania x