Mairtín Crawford Award: Preparing Short Stories for Submission - In-person workshop

With the Martín Crawford Award submission closing at midnight on the Wednesday 9th April, join judge Wendy Erskine for a workshop aimed at writers seeking advice, guidance and practical approaches to assembling and presenting short stories for submission.

Places for the in-person workshop are very limited so we recommend early booking. 

Traditionally the Award workshops been free. You can absolutely still sign up with no cost attached; but if you’d like to make a contribution to Crescent activity – as sometimes we get asked about - you’d be very welcome to. 

Unable to make the in-person workshop; join for for an online workshop. Click here for information. 

About the judge

Wendy Erskine is the author of two short story collections, Sweet Home and Dance Move. She edited an anthology, well I just kind of like it, on art in the home and the home as art. Her non-fiction has appeared in The Guardian, the Quietus and many other publications. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she has been listed for the Edgehill Prize, the Republic of Consciousness Prize, the Gordon Burn Prize and The Sunday Times Short Story Award. She was awarded the Butler Prize for Literature. She hosts a radio show on Soho Radio for Rough Trade Books and is a full-time secondary school teacher.