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Written by one of the country's leading experts on the short story, Write Short Stories - And Get Them Published is ideal if you want to write creatively in a genre that is increasingly attracting attention from publishers, and which offers plenty of competition and festival opportunities for you to showcase your work.

It will help unlock your imagination and creativity, and to discover stories you didn't know you had. It will help you to observe the world around you more sharply, as well as to structure, shape and polish your story. It is full of practical exercises that will both inspire imagination and refine skills, and confidence-building suggestions and hints.

Finally, this inspiring book offers clear strategies and techniques for securing a readership or even a publisher, and gives the very latest information on how to use the internet for maximum advantage. Zoe Fairbaines is a short story writer whose work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4, and published in magazines including The Yellow Room and Cosmopolitan. She has contributed to two collections of feminist short stories and to several anthologies. She teaches short story writing at City Lit, and work by her former students has been published in collections and shortlisted for prizes.