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The Joys of Constructing a Collection of Stories

December 7, 2020By Bronwyn_Mehanguest blog, NEWS & EVENTS (Homepage), The Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award, THE COLUMN
The Joys of Constructing a Collection of Stories

by Carmel Bird Writing a short story is one of my greatest pleasures. Then taking a bunch of stories I have written and devising a structure for a collection – that’s another. Sometimes writers set out with a theme – say, to keep it simple here, fourteen stories about plagues – and then their task … Read More

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