At this year’s festival there will be a Short Story Club where participants can discuss stories with professional writers. How do we know if our idea will work as a short story? In this exclusive 3-hour workshop, prize-winning short-story writer Adam Marek will explore practical methods for tapping your imagination, generating ideas and developing them. There will also be a poetry workshop with the poet Anne Marie Fyfe who will help you to discover the poetic fascination of raging seas, of Force-9s and undercurrents, of tidal pull, hidden depths, unknown treasures, and uncertain homecomings.