The Ultimate Science Fiction Writing Workshop, a 10-week intensive course led by authors Jeffrey A. Carver and Craig Shaw Gardner, will run on Sunday evenings from October 3rd to December 12th (excepting Thanksgiving weekend) in Arlington, MA. The class will be limited to 12 members, and the deadline to apply is September 26th. See http://www.starrigger.net/workshop.htm for details.
[Tip from Pandemonium Books and Games]
The Grub Street writers’ workshop has announced a class that may be of interest to aspiring science fiction and fantasy writers:
Noted fiction editor, Stoker and International Horror Guild Award-winner, crime and SF writer Michael Marano will be offering a new class this fall on “Writing the Smart Page-Turner” at Grub Street, Inc., a non-profit creative writing center dedicated to nurturing writers and connecting readers with the wealth of writing talent in the Boston area. The class is geared for writers who work in all kinds of genres, from SF/Fantasy to Romance to Suspense/Thrillers to just about any other genre you can name, and is designed to help authors find their own distinct literary voice while working within those genres. Classes will also be dedicated to practical concerns, like finding the right publishing venues to send your work, and how to work with editors and agents. Details can be found here http://tinyurl.com/2ego4km.
The class begins September 16th and runs for 10 weeks. You can learn more at the link above and at http://www.grubstreet.org.
Odyssey is a six-week intensive writing workshop for writers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Led by book editor Jeanne Cavelos, the course features guest lectures from authors Elizabeth Hand, Gregory Frost, Alexander Jablokov, and Michael A. Arnzen and award-winning editor David G. Hartwell. The workshop also has an official writer-in-residence, Laura Anne Gilman. The workshop will be held at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, NH June 7 through July 16. Note that applications must be received by April 8. Learn more at http://www.sff.net/odyssey/.
Viable Paradise, the annual science fiction writing workshop held on Martha’s Vineyard, is scheduled for October 3rd-8th, 2010. You must apply to attend the workshop; the submission period for is now open, and will close June 30th. Here’s more information:
Viable Paradise is a unique one-week residential workshop in writing and selling commercial science fiction and fantasy. The workshop is intimate, intense, and features extensive time spent with best-selling and award-winning authors and professional editors currently working in the field. VP concentrates on the art of writing fiction people want to read, and this concentration is reflected in post-workshop professional sales by our alumni.
For full details visit http://www.sff.net/Paradise/.
The Ultimate Science Fiction Writing Workshop is a 10-week writing course for adults led by authors Jeffrey A. Carver and Craig Shaw Gardner. The class will meet at Pandemonium Books in Cambridge, MA on Sunday evenings beginning October 11th. Registration is limited to 12 people. For details see http://www.starrigger.net/workshop.htm and http://community.livejournal.com/pandemonium_bks/225815.html.
Necon, the Northeastern Writers’ Conference, “is a small annual convention that draws authors and editors, artists and fans from around the country,” according to their website at http://www.campnecon.com/. This year’s event will take place on July 16-19, 2009, in Bristol, RI. The writer guests of honor are Sarah Pinborough, John Skipp, and Thomas E. Sniegoski, while the artist guest of honor is Lars Grant-West.
[Once again, thanks to Rich of the New England Browncoats, who was in turn quoting NESFA]
The Grub Street writing workshop in Boston, MA has announced its spring class schedule, and they’ve got a genre writing class lined up called “Writing the Smart Page-Turner”:
Exciting plots and larger-than-life characters are the cornerstones of so-called “popular” or “genre” fiction, but in an era when Michael Chabon wins science fiction’s Nebula Award and Cormac McCarthy wins the Pulitzer for the apocalyptic novel The Road, the lines between genre and literary fiction are blurrier than ever. Whether you’re writing romance, mystery, science fiction, erotica, supernatural or suspense, the principles of writing popular fiction – clear prose, characters we can empathize with, and a story that moves – are key, and in this course, you’ll learn ways to do that while developing a distinct literary “voice”. Classes will entail the workshopping of your stories and novel chapters, exploring the terrain of the genres, the use of writing and idea-generating exercises, and discussion of the magazines and publishers looking for your sort of fiction. The goal is to give you a solid grounding in the demands of popular fiction, and a better understanding of literary potential of your favorite genres. An intermediate level class, recommended for students with some workshop experience.
This is a 10-week program that starts April 19th and runs on Sunday evenings; the deadline to register is April 15th. The cost is $425 for nonmembers, but instructor Michael Marano says there are scholarships available. For more information visit http://www.grubstreet.org/index.php?id=12#genre.
Odyssey is a six-week writing workshop for writers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror, held annually on the campus of Saint Anselm College in Manchester, NH. This year’s workshop takes place June 8 through July 17, 2009; applications, including a writing sample, are due by April 8. For more information, visit http://www.sff.net/odyssey/.
Another opportunity for aspiring science fiction writers is opening up: the weeklong Viable Paradise writers’ workshop on Martha’s Vineyard. An alum of the workshop sent in this description:
The Viable Paradise writing workshop is currently accepting applications for its 2009 session. It bills itself as: “a unique one-week residential workshop in writing and selling commercial science fiction and fantasy,” and is currently in its thirteenth year. It takes place October 4-10 on Martha’s Vineyard, and this year’s instructors are Elizabeth Bear, Debra Doyle, Steven Gould, James D. Macdonald, Laura J. Mixon, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, and John Scalzi — several of whom will be at Boskone and will be more than happy to talk to you about it. To learn more about the workshop, including the extensive list of sales by their alum, visit their website at http://www.viableparadise.com.
Submissions close June 30, 2009.
[Tip via http://www.jenniferpelland.com]
We have an update on the previously announced genre writing class at Grub Street: the enrollment deadline has been extended to this Thursday the 15th, and scholarships are available for reduced tuition. For more information contact http://www.grubstreet.org/.
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September 9, 2010 8:44 pm | 
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