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 MoreMaking a Genre Smoothie
Genre mashups are a hot trend in publishing, but crafting a novel that sits comfortably on two or more shelves is easier said than done. Every genre has specific expectations…
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 MoreTo the Point: Intro to Flash Nonfiction
In this focused workshop for writers of all phases and stages, we will explore the brevity and beauty of flash essays. Flash is generally considered under 750 words, and it…
Read MoreWalk the Line: The Balance Between Author and Audience
In this session, we will discuss how to manage an audience’s expectations, while still honoring your vision as a writer. By examining famous works and adaptable techniques, you will learn…
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 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 MoreThe Snowflake Plotting Method
Do you want to write a novel, but you’re stuck figuring out how to start? Or maybe you already have a great synopsis–but how do you convert that into ninety-thousand…
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