After a successful run last November, I’m so excited to partner with the Asian American Writers’ Workshop once more for this genre-bending workshop! 🧝♂️🧑🏼🚀🧛🏽
It’s on Saturday, June 3 and Saturday, June 10, both at 2 PM to 5 PM Eastern Time. Here’s the course description:
This course is open to beginner and novice writers in any genre and any form (short or long) with an interest in writing fiction with speculative elements.
Keeping in theme with our workshop theme of understory, this workshop harkens to interspecies relationships by way of genre blurring, this course will introduce attendees to effective ways of blending the speculative fiction genres (science fiction, fantasy, and horror) and non-speculative genres such as domestic fiction, mysteries and thrillers, and romance.
This workshop will involve lectures about genre and subgenre definitions; works that successfully straddle genre lines; structural considerations and managing reader expectations when writing genre-blending works.
This workshop will also have a seminar and discussion component centering genre-blending short stories. Attendees will generate writings based on prompts during the workshop.
Finally, attendees will have the opportunity to submit their own writing (submitted in advance of the course) for feedback from the instructor and other attendees.
This two-day workshop is fully virtual, and has a small class size. The sliding scale fee is $100-$200, and scholarships are available. More details and registration information can be found at the course site here.
Hope you can join us!
* Limited scholarship seats are available and will be chosen by lottery. The deadline to apply for a scholarship seat is end of day May 29, 2023
** All AAWW workshops serve writers of the global majority (BIPOC). If you are not a person of the global majority, we ask you to refrain from signing up for this workshop.
