Writing the Short Story with Saeed Teebi - The FOLD

Writing the Short Story: Form & Function

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This workshop with author and lawyer Saeed Teebi will focus on the principles of structuring a short story. We will discuss common forms, beginnings, and endings, as well as offer a few general tips.

This session will be closed-captioned. Closed captioning provided by Zoom auto transcription.
This session will be followed by a Q&A.

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Saeed Teebi is a writer and lawyer based in Toronto. His debut collection of short stories, Her First Palestinian, was a finalist for several awards, including the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Prize and the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. The title story was shortlisted for the CBC Short Story Award.

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