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Do you have a draft short story or novel chapter that you would like to revise? This hands-on workshop will guide you through the macro and micro steps of editing your piece. In the first session, we shall analyze your story or chapter’s plot, characterization, setting, theme, and voice so as to better align it with your intentions. Based on this assessment, you will have time to edit your story or chapter before the second session. Next, we shall work at the micro level, focussing on issues of style such as: the narrative modes, sentence rhythm, imagery, word choice, and tone, while addressing their overall effect. By the workshop’s end, you will have an edited draft and a clear picture of further changes to be made. You will also have sharpened your editing skills. Please bring a (preferably new) draft short story or novel chapter to the first class.   

DOREEN BAINGANA’s short story collection, Tropical Fish, won an AWP Grace Paley Short Fiction Prize and a Commonwealth Prize, and she has been shortlisted thrice for the Caine Prize. Other awards include a Bread Loaf Writers Conference Fellowship, a Miles Morland Foundation Scholarship, a Rockefeller Bellagio residency, a Sustainable Arts Foundation grant, and a Gretchen J. Bryant Distinguished Freedom to Write Fellowship. She has also published two children’s books as well as stories and essays in journals including The Georgia Review, Agni, Transition, The Guardian, UK, Caravan: A Journal of Politics and Culture, African American Review, Callaloo, Transition, Chimurenga and Evergreen Review. She has an MFA from the University of Maryland, College Park, and is currently doing a PhD in creative writing at the University of Queensland, where she received the UQP Mentorship Award, 2023.