Hope and Happiness in Short Fiction with Danielle McLaughlin

Presented in partnership with Dublin and Seattle City of Literature.

Hope is punker than despair! Challenge short fiction’s pull towards doom and gloom at this short fiction workshop with Danielle McLaughlin. Discover ways of making happiness and hope, compelling through short in-workshop writing exercises and reading selections. Resist the urge to destroy civilization...again, and write futures worth living in!

Danielle McLaughlin is an Irish author whose work has appeared in newspapers and magazines such as The Stinging Fly, The New Yorker, Southword, The Irish Times, The Sunday Times and, and have been broadcast on RTE Radio 1 and BBC Radio 4.  Her debut collection of short stories Dinosaurs on Other Planets was published in Ireland by The Stinging Fly Press in 2015, and subsequently in the UK (John Murray), US (Random House), Germany (Luchterhand), Uruguay (alter ediciones) and Slovakia (Inaque).  She edited Counterparts, an anthology of work by writers with legal…