Summer Workshops

Taos Toolbox

The Taos Toolbox master class in writing science fiction and fantasy, delayed for two years by COVID-19, took place June 12-25, 2022. Because its normal site at Angel Fire NM was under threat by a massive forest fire, the workshop was moved to the Sonesta ES in Albuquerque. Taos Toolbox hopes to return to Angel Fire next year.

Taught by Nancy Kress and Walter Jon Williams, the workshop was attended by Glen Engel-Cox, Melissa Gerard, AC Fuller, Scott Nash, Mark Rhodes, Theresa von Kerguelgen, Rebecca Gomez-Farrell, Sophie Trist, Julia Hansbrough, Denise Spain Schuh, Cathren Page, Heidi Wainter, Maurice Haeems, Taylor Poulos, Melanie Haskell, and Keith Proctor. Guest speakers included Emily Mah Tippetts and George R.R. Martin

Launch Pad

The 2022 Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop for Writers took place on May 22-28, 2022 at the University of Wyoming in Laramie WY.

Participants (l to r): kneeling: Christian Ready (instructor), Theodora Zastrocky (instructor), Mike Brotherton (instructor), Alexandra Oliva: standing: Daphne Kalotay, Kali Wallace, Emily X.R. Pan, Kevin Andrew Murphy, Laura Lam, J. A. Campbell, Emma Törzs, Sylvia McNicoll, and David Boop

Shared Worlds

The Shared Worlds teen writing summer program took place on July 10-23, 2022 at Wofford College in Spartanburg SC.

Staff: Alex Agar, Caden Booth, Cady Gardiner-Parks, Lynzi Hammett, C.L. Herman, Aimee Hyndman, Molly Jones, Shannon Katz-Dean, Amanda McGrath, Gratia Mittelman, Emelia Muilenburg, Rory Power, Miller Putnam, Renee Stimpert, Isabel Townsend, Aiden Tyler, Ella Webster

Staff: Alex Agar, Caden Booth, Cady Gardiner-Parks, Lynzi Hammett, C.L. Herman, Aimee Hyndman, Molly Jones, Shannon Katz-Dean, Amanda McGrath, Gratia Mittelman, Emelia Muilenburg, Rory Power, Miller Putnam, Renee Stimpert, Isabel Townsend, Aiden Tyler, Ella Webster

Not pictured: Jackie Gitlin, Kim Henry, Jeremy LC Jones, Bennett Lewis, Marm Oshiro, Robert V.S. Redick, Joseph Spivey, Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer


Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop

The Odyssey Writing Workshop transformed in 2022 into Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop, an intensive, one-on-one online workshop customized for each student, com­bining expert feedback, deep mentoring, and the renowned Odyssey lectures. The 12 stu­dents admitted were able to choose whether to take the program over six weeks (beginning in June), three months (beginning in August), or six months (beginning in November).

Graduates of the six-week session and students currently participating in the three-month session of Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop (l to r), top row: Avione Lee, Sheryl Hamilton, V. Voya Tse, Odyssey Director Jeanne Cavelos; bottom row: Iris Hwang, Isabel Cañas, Jill Tew, Nicole Magoon

Clarion West

Clarion West held its summer workshop from June 19–July 29, 2022, at various locations in Seattle.


Rio Hondo

The Rio Hondo Workshop, postponed by COVID for over two years, took place September 18-25, 2022, in the mountains near Angel Fire NM.
Terry Boren was unable to attend after testing positive for COVID, but participated via Zoom.

Rio Hondo participants: Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Carrie Vaughn, Walter Jon Williams (host), Alexander Jablokov, Paolo Bacigalupi, Diana Rowland, John Kessel, C.C. Finlay, Rick Wilber, James Patrick Kelly

This report and more like it in the October 2022 issue of Locus.

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