The Craft of Fiction: Dialogue, with Susannah Dickey

With samples taken from a broad span of global contemporary fiction, in this workshop you will study ways of providing exposition through dialogue in nuanced and subtle ways; learn how to make your characters distinctive through their speaking styles; and study how humour in dialogue can supplement and strengthen tragic or serious topics.

Susannah Dickey is a poet and novelist from Derry. Her debut collection of poetry, ISDAL (Picador, 2023), was the winner of the inaugural PEN Heaney Prize, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and John Pollard Prize, and was an Irish Times and Guardian Book of the Year. Her third novel, to pieces, will be published in 2026 by Bloomsbury.

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