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Short Story Programme This Summer (With a Twist)

Every Fortnight on Mondays 7.30pm-9pm on Zoom (Starts June 22nd)

Four Live Sessions (All Sessions Recorded and Stored on Cloud for 3 Months)

Special Pilot Price: €200 €100

This special summer writing and wellbeing programme explores what we mean when we talk about “the real world” through playful, experimental short stories.

Perhaps, as a child, you wanted to be an artist, a writer, an astronaut and were told to be realistic. To live in the real world. But what does that actually mean and what were the implications for your life?

Must You Live in the Real World? is an invitation to play.

Across four live sessions, we’ll read bold, strange stories, begin to write our own, and spend time thinking together. In the weeks between, you’ll be given small creative missions to carry out in your everyday life; gentle, slightly surreal prompts designed to reconnect you with the world around you. For those of you on a different timezone or signature, you can watch the videos on playback.

(Some of them will be a bit silly. That’s the point.)

This is also an invitation to go offline.

While we’ll meet online every fortnight, you’re encouraged to turn down the noise of social media and re-engage with your own version of the real world—whatever that looks like for you.

To reconnect with your imagination. To make things up. To have fun.

Authors we’ll read and respond to include Etgar Keret, Eka Kurniawan, Kevin Wilson and Karen Russell.