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 MoreHow to Self-Publish Your Book
You’ve written a great book, but the query letter/literary agent/publisher game isn’t your cup of tea. Have you considered self-publishing? With print-on-demand, it’s easier than ever to get your book…
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 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 MorePutting “Play” In Your Pen
Many writers find that sticking to a structure, routine, or rhythm helps with accountability and productivity. But what happens when the wheels are in motion, yet feel stuck on the…
Read MorePodcasts and Shorts: Advance Your Writing Through Producing
“In this class we will explore harnessing the power of podcasts and short films to showcase your writing. We will cover adapting existing material for audio and short form mediums,…
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 MoreMapmaking for Writers
Who doesn’t love cracking open a fantasy tome and finding a gorgeous, lavishly illustrated map of the novel’s fictional world emblazoned on the end pages? Maps and speculative fiction have…
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