These courses are fully online and self-paced. Start and finish whenever is convenient to you!

By the end of these courses, you will have:

  • Built confidence in your ability to recognise, trust and value your ideas
  • Learned how to find and develop new story ideas
  • Produced drafts of several original stories through structured and playful exercises
  • Developed new characters, dialogue and narrative voices
  • Found new creative ways of responding to an increasingly absurd modern world

Student Reviews of Writing Very Short Stories with Ennis Ćehić

‘This is a well-planned and presented course for anyone daring to foray into Very Short Stories. The course yielded much glorious information and not some few surprises. Engaging, informative, inspiring.’—KYD Student

‘I had never written a short story when I started this course, but I was able to generate six edited stories, and now I have a mechanism for future ideas.’—KYD Student

Student Reviews of Finding Ideas for Fiction with Claire Thomas

‘This course was fun and easy to squeeze in between my other commitments. I feel inspired!’—KYD Student


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Meet Your Teachers, Ennis and Claire

Ennis Ćehić is a writer of fiction and non-fiction whose work explores displacement, creativity and capitalism, often through satire, absurdism and meta-fiction. His debut collection of stories, Sadvertising, published by Penguin Random House in 2022, has been hailed as an ‘electrifying and genre-defying new voice in Australian fiction’.

Claire Thomas is a writer from Naarm/Melbourne. Her novel, The Performance, was published internationally in 2021, and was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and shortlisted for the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards. Her debut novel, Fugitive Blue, won the Dobbie Award for Women Writers and was longlisted for the Miles Franklin. Claire’s third novel, On Not Climbing Mountains, is forthcoming in 2026. Claire holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne and has worked as a mentor, lecturer, supervisor, and teacher for many years.


Frequently Asked Questions

When do these courses start and finish?
The courses start now and never end! These are completely self-paced online courses—you decide when you start and when you finish. We encourage you to approach this material not just as lessons to be finished once and for all, but also as a collection of resources to which you can return time and again.

How long do I have access to the courses?
Forever! After enrolling, you have unlimited lifetime access to these courses—across any and all devices you own.

Does the teacher provide feedback?
No. If you are interested in receiving feedback on your project, we encourage you to check out KYD's Manuscript Assessment Service: killyourdarlings.com.au/shop/manuscript-assessments/

How do I access my courses?
All our online workshops are hosted at kill-your-darlings.teachable.com, via the Teachable platform. You can access your course by logging in at that link, or by following the link in your welcome email when you enrol. Please note that as the Teachable platform is a separate website to KYD you will need to create a new account, and will not be able to use your KYD login details.

I'm a KYD member. How do I receive my $50 discount?
Click on 'Enrol now'. Enter the coupon code that was emailed to you on 18 February 2026. If you can't find your code, please email us and we'll be happy to remind you!

What if I have another question? You can email us at courses@killyourdarlings.com.au and we'll be happy to help!