Writing Fiction Workshop with Wendy Erskine – BOOKED OUT Exploring short story possibilities through pop videos and Chekhov.

This event is now booked out with a waitlist in place.

In this session, join acclaimed short story writer Wendy Erskine, where you’ll be looking at how pop videos on YouTube – and the ways people respond to them – generate so many possibilities relating to how short stories can be constructed. And, you’ll be considering Chekhov and what we can learn from his genius. This writing workshop should be rigorous, fun and suitable for everyone. Those with no experience of writing are particularly welcome!

This workshop takes place in LitLab on the 4th floor.

All participants will have access to the museum and gardens while visiting for the workshop.

Wendy Erskine image  ©  Khara Pringle.

Wendy Erskine’s two short story collections, Sweet Home and Dance Move (Stinging Fly/Picador) were variously listed for The Edge Hill Prize, the Gordon Burn Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize. Stories from the collections were listed for The Sunday Times Audible Short Story Prize and the Irish Book Awards short story of the year. Sweet Home won the Butler Literary Prize. Dance Move was Book at Bedtime on BBC Radio 4. She edited well I just kind of like it, an anthology about art in the home and the home as art, for PVA Books. Other fiction and non-fiction has been published by Rough Trade Books, the Tangerine Press, Ration Books, Daunt Books, Faber, the Guardian and the Quietus, among others. In 2022, she was Seamus Heaney Fellow at Queen’s University, Belfast and in 2023 was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. A frequent interviewer and broadcaster, she hosted a show on Soho Radio for Rough Trade Books until 2024. She is a head of department in a secondary school in Belfast. Her debut novel The Benefactors will be published in June 2025.

With thanks to our venue partner MoLI – Museum of Literature Ireland.