For those who were not able to attend our Writing Short for Audio Impact complimentary workshop as a lead-up to our CT Voices: WWWxWSHU Radio Contest, we’re pleased to share the full recording here so you can watch at your own pace. The workshop was split into two parts.

For the first part, Terry Sheridan, the WSHU News Director, will work with writers on the fundamentals of writing and revising for radio. How do we compel listeners to keep listening? Which tools do writers need to write for the “theater of the mind”?

For the second hour, Creative Nonfiction instructor and author, Suzanne Farrell Smith, will teach tools for brevity. It’s one thing to write short pieces. It’s another to write strong short pieces. How do writers of very short nonfiction compress so much meaning and energy into so few words? How do we make a flash feel complete? And what kind of writing process generates these small written wonders? Suzanne will provide prompts and revision strategies for flash CNF pieces that writers could submit to the contest.