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Body Horror: Short Story Course with Alison Rumfitt

Name: Body Horror: Short Story Course with Alison Rumfitt
Start: 2025-04-17T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-04T20:00:00+01:00
Location: Hanley Crouch, Brickworks Community Centre

17 April @ 6:00 pm - 4 September @ 8:00 pm

£200

Body Horror
Learn the gruesome art of body horror with acclaimed author Alison Rumfitt.

Participants on this course will create up to three short stories (up to 5k words) over the duration of this course. Your best story will be published in a Comma Press eBook to be sold online.

The theme of the course is body horror – a genre of horror that focuses on decay, transformation and mutilation of the human body so attendees are warned that some content may be disturbing.

As well as learning the genre conventions and techniques of body horror, writers will learn the basics of short storytelling that are applicable to all genres.

Open to all levels of experience.

Dates and Times:

6:15-8:15pm on Thursdays

April 17th

May 15th

June 12th

July 10th

August 7th

September 4th

Tickets are £200 for the whole course. We do not offer partial tickets.

A limited number of bursary tickets are available for £170 for underrepresented writers or those on a low income. To book without Eventbrite fees, or to apply for a bursary discount, email george.forster@commapress.co.uk.

PLEASE BE AWARE: If the minimum number of attendees is not reached by 1 month from the course start date, Comma Press may cancel or postpone. At this point, attendees will receive a full refund.

Comma Press is not-for-profit publisher and development agency specialising in short fiction from the UK and beyond.

Alison Rumfitt is a writer and cultural critic. Her two horror novels Tell Me I’m Worthless and Brainwyrms push the boundaries of both taste and form to the shock of readers everywhere. She has written for Little White Lies and, Dazed, and interviewed new Doctor Ncuti Gatwa for Rolling Stone.