How To Craft a Short Story From opening paragraph to pitch by Sally Cranswick

How do you get your short story to stand out from the crowd? Bring your short story idea to this workshop and let’s craft your story for success. We will work on techniques that are specific to short story writing and will cover:

• Creative-writing exercises
• The opening paragraph
• Point of View
• Tense
• Characters
• Setting
• We will finish by exploring some short story markets and how to pitch and present your story to a publication
• Q&A session


Sally’s collection of short stories, Women out of Water, is about to be published with Modjaji Books. She lives in Cape Town and is a workshop facilitator with a special interest in memoir and life-writing.