Masterclass: Short Story Endings w/ Leone Ross

A MASTERCLASS: SHORT STORY ENDINGS with Leone Ross

Sunday December 6th, 2026

5-8pm UK time via Zoom

Award winning writer, editor and educator for more than three decades, course leader Leone Ross offers a masterclass in the mystery of the short story ending. 

How DO you know when to stop? What are the different kinds of narrative endings? How do you choose? How do make sure you’ve made your point? Is a twist ending the best kind? What is an open ending? 

Full of accessible, practical tips, mini-lectures, and writing exercises, this is the Masterclass that will help you feel more confident about that last full stop, and ensure you write those two little words - THE END - with a flourish. 

This course is designed to help experienced fiction writers and beginners at all levels, although do be aware that participants are asked to read several short stories in advance. 

“This was the best gift I gave myself this year.”

- Dzifa Job 

All activity takes place on Zoom. The course is open to writers all over the world. The Course goes across three hours, including comfort breaks. 

FEES

The Story Endings Masterclass costs £90. 

There will be TWO free spots made available in the Masterclass, first come, first served. 

*Please note that all tickets are non-refundable.

Enquiries are always welcome. 

“Leone is incredible. I couldn’t have got my novel to where it is now, 

without her..”  - novelist Nikesh Shukla

About Leone:

Leone Ross FRSL is a novelist, short story writer, editor and educator. Her third novel, This One Sky Day [Faber] was nominated for the Women’s Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize, and the Ondaatje Prize, among others — and named a New York Times Editor’s Choice. Her short fiction has been widely anthologised and her first short-story collection, Come Let Us Sing Anyway, prompted the Times Literary Supplement to call her ‘a pointilliste, a master of detail...’. In 2021, she won the Manchester Prize for Fiction for a single short story. Ross has facilitated other writer’s voices for 35+ years, as editor and creative writing tutor up to PhD level. She has taught variously for Cardiff University, Roehampton University, Goldsmiths University, The City Literary Institute, the Faber Academy and the Arvon Foundation. Ross is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Higher Education Academy. She is the editor of Glimpse: A Black British Anthology of Speculative Fiction, the first of its kind.

We reserve the right to cancel or postpone this course if a minimum number of attendees is not met. If cancelled, full refunds (minus processing fees) will be made to all ticket holders.