 | Tuesday, September 10, 2024 | | | | | | Read nothing else but short stories | | | "To write a good short story, you have to immerse yourself in the story as a form. Personally, when I am writing stories, I try to read nothing else but short stories.
"You need the demands and parameters of that form completely embedded in your conscious and subconscious as you write and as you revise." | | | Leo McKay Jr. is a writer and a high school teacher. His novel Twenty-Six won the Dartmouth Book Award and was chosen for the One Book Nova Scotia event. His debut collection of stories, Like This, also won the Dartmouth Book Award and was a finalist for the Giller Prize. His latest book is the novel What Comes Echoing Back. He was a reader for the 2024 CBC Short Story Prize. | | | | | | | | Brought to you in partnership with: | | | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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