As part of its programme to develop publishing skills in the Caribbean, CaribLit, in partnership with Commonwealth Writers, with support from the British Council and CODE, will conduct a skills development workshop for emerging fiction editors from 18 to 22 January, 2016. Administered by the Bocas Lit Fest, the workshop will take place in Georgetown, Guyana, with assistance from the Moray House Trust.
Led by Jeremy Poynting, managing editor of Peepal Tree Press, and Johnny Temple, publisher of Akashic Books, the workshop is aimed at emerging editors from the Anglophone Caribbean resident in the region. Focused specifically on editing fiction, including both novels and short stories, for publication in both books and periodicals, the workshop sessions will include areas such as:
- macro-mechanics: structure, plot, character, voice, showing vs. telling
- micro-mechanics: “style”, dialogue
- geographic, social, and market contexts of publishing
- differences/overlaps between literary and genre fiction
- issues of particular relevance to Caribbean fiction, eg. writing in different registers, non-standard English, “dialect”
- special considerations in editing fiction for young adult readers
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