Writing Workshop: Beginnings and Endings with Mark Jarman

In this workshop on beginnings and endings of short stories, we will look at inspiring models and very handy techniques from writers James Joyce, Alice Munro, Flannery O’Connor, Denis Johnson, Ernest Hemingway, and Elizabeth Tallent, and from Jarman’s own stories.

Mark Anthony Jarman is a Canadian fiction writer. Jarman's work includes the novel Salvage King, Ya!, the short story collection Knife Party at the Hotel Europa and the travel book Ireland's Eye. His latest book Burn Man was reviewed in the New York Times.

A graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop, Jarman has taught at the University of New Brunswick and the University of Victoria.

Jarman's writing has won the O. Henry Award, the Gold National Magazine Award in nonfiction, the Jack Hodgins Fiction Prize, and has been a finalist for the Journey Prize. Jarman has been awarded the Maclean-Hunter Endowment Award twice.

Host or Publisher Florence Literary Society