Chris Ames is a writer from California. His work has appeared in HEAT, The Big Issue, The Saturday Paper, New Australian Fiction, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a Hot Desk Fellowship, the Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Award, and the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. He lives in Melbourne with his wife and son.
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Writers’ Salon: Not Funny Haha
In an evening part-workshop part-roundtable, emerging writer Chris Ames will explain how some principles of comedy can be used to tighten narrative structures, resolve discomfort, and improve all kinds of stories—from absurdist, high-concept short fiction to your sad novel about a marriage in disrepair.
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