Short Story with Amra Pajalic

Are you interested in writing short stories?

Whether you want to write for fun, or are considering entering the Wyndham Writing Awards, this workshop will get you started. Award winning author and teacher Amra Pajalic will take you through the basics of story structure, conflict, and beginnings and endings before exploring more in depth topics as time permits. 

Suitable for absolute beginners or those with some writing experience.

This workshop will be run using MS teams, and you’ll be provided with a link to attend after registering. You will need an electronic device to participate.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER: 
Amra Pajalić is an award-winning author, an editor and teacher who draws on her Bosnian cultural heritage to write own voices stories for young people, who like her, are searching to mediate their identity and take pride in their diverse culture.

Amra Pajalić won the 2009 Melbourne Prize for Literature's Civic Choice Award for her debut novel The Good Daughter, re-released as Sabiha's Dilemma (Pishukin Press, 2022). The anthology she co-edited, Growing up Muslim in Australia (Allen and Unwin, 2014), was shortlisted for the 2015 Children's Book Council of the year awards and her memoir Things Nobody Knows But Me (Transit Lounge, 2019) was shortlisted for the 2020 National Biography Award. Her short story collection The Cuckoo's Song (Pishukin Press) features previously published and prize-winning stories.