Find Fantasy In Your Reality: Crafting Fantasy That Comes From You
Fantasy doesn’t have to mimic the classics. This class focuses on how your cultural background, community, beliefs, fears, and memories can reshape the genre. You’ll learn how to mine your…
Read MoreUtopian Fiction
Where dystopian fiction explores just how bad the world can get, it’s often ignored sibling, utopian fiction, imagines new vistas for social, ecological, political, and economic possibility. We will look…
Read MoreHaunt Yourself: Finding Your Own Style of Horror
Horror is personal and rooted not in tropes, but in what unnerves you. This class helps you uncover your own flavor of fear: psychological, atmospheric, uncanny, visceral, or existential. Through…
Read MoreMaking Sci-Fi and Fantasy Digestible
Elaborate worldbuilding is a hallmark of science fiction and fantasy, but so is the plethora of confusing, unpronounceable, made up words and concepts. With so much information needed to tell…
Read MoreSouthern Noir to Grit Lit
Simply put, Southern Literature is complex—not Scarlett O’Hara’s plantation or Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County, but both. Recently, this traditional Southern Gothic literature has given way to Southern Noir, complete with sex,…
Read MoreRuthless, Radical Revision for Novelists
Ernest Hemmingway has said “The only kind of writing is rewriting,” and Michael Crichton noted “Books aren’t written – they’re rewritten.” Nearly every professional writer has their own version of…
Read MoreLiterary Activism
What is Literary Activism? How does the written word have the power to change the world? And how can your work make an impact? This one-time class will answer all…
Read MoreAnimal and Monster Narrators
This workshop focuses on creating and developing animal, monster and other non-human narrators. Participants will read and discuss examples of non-human narrators from published works and strategize how to develop…
Read MoreFilling Your Toolbox; Everything You Need to Write Fiction
You’re a first-time fiction writer or a seasoned author, this one-time workshop will cover essential techniques and applications to create an immersive and engaging fiction narrative. With prompts to practice…
Read MoreSex Scenes for Character Building
When do we see characters at their most vulnerable and intimate, when all their walls are down? Sex! Come join us as we learn to show our characters deepest fears…
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