Writing Surgery: Feedback & Editing Skills

This 10-week course is workshop based in order to provide a creative, supportive environment to guide you in the advancement of your literary work.

Learn about deep reading techniques, literary analysis, critiquing fiction, as well as how to edit your work based on discussion and constructive feedback from other writers.

This intermediate course would be suitable for writers who understand the basics of writing but want to learn how to take their stories to the next level.

Ideally, students should come with an idea or first draft of a piece they would like to work on throughout the course.

About the tutor

Chris Wright is a short fiction writer from Bangor, Northern Ireland. He has been longlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards Short Story of the Year, runner-up in The MairtínCrawford Award, and his work has been featured in dozens of print anthologies and publications.

Chris recently had the honour of having his non-fiction work on the pandemic preserved in the Irish Reading Archive at UCD Library in Dublin for the next 100 years. Chris is a judge for the Mairtín Crawford Award for Short Story and has an MA in Creative Writing from Queen’s University, Belfast.