Workshops

Clarion West announced a call for “an artist to create artwork for our 2023 summer programming!” The submission deadline is February 24, 2023 and compensation starts at $750, with the potential for increased payment “depending on experience.”

We want to commission a piece of art that inspires us and our writers to create and explore with bravery and freedom. The art needs to represent the genres of science fiction, fantasy, ...Read More

The Horror Writers Association‘s 2023 Horror University Online is currently open for registration for the next quarter (February, March, and April 2023). They are offering virtual workshops on a variety of topics for “horror writers everywhere interested in refining their writing, learning new skills and techniques, or perfecting their manuscript presentation.”

Live courses include:

• The Master Plotting Crash Course with John Skipp, February 6
• Decoding Screenwriting with L. Marie Wood,

The Odyssey Workshop has announced the “Space Cowboy Books Working Class Writers Scholarship”:

Funded by the award-winning Space Cowboy Books, which has the mission to spread the love of science fiction, literature, literacy, and print media, the Space Cow­boy Books Working Class Writers Scholar­ship is offered to provide financial support for a working-class or impoverished writer to attend Your Personal Odyssey. To be considered for this scholarship, you must complete ...Read More

The Odyssey Writing Workshop has transitioned away from its old in-person, six-week workshop model, continuing the online approach that began in during the pandemic: Your Personal Odyssey Workshop.

Director Jeanne Cavelos explains,

Holding Odyssey online in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic revealed to me that a huge number of talented writers want an in-depth, challenging program to build their skills but can’t attend a six-week, in-person workshop. More ...Read More

The Clarion West Writers Workshop in Seattle WA is looking for new facilities:

Clarion West has a long history of partnering with universities and organizations in the Seattle area to house the Six-Week Workshop. As we’ve honed in on what our students need for their workshop experience and focused on affordability, equity, and accessibility, the number of potential partners has narrowed. Even before the pandemic, we couldn’t secure a long-term ...Read More

The Odyssey Writing Workshop has announced the instructors for its online classes in 2023.

Gregory Ashe will teach “Angled Dialogue: Crafting Authentic-Sounding Dialogue to Convey Information, Escalate Conflict, and Advance Character-Driven Stories” from January 5 – February 2, 2023.

Barbara Ashford will teach “One Brick at a Time: Crafting Compelling Scenes” from January 3-31, 2023.

Scott H. Andrews will teach “Emotional Truth: Making Character Emotions Real, Powerful, and Immediate to ...Read More

The Alpha Workshop for Young Writers was held on the campus of University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg from July 20-31, 2022.

The 2022 Clarion Workshop took place on June 19 – July 30, 2022, on the University of California at San Diego campus.

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

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The Clarion West Summer Workshop has announced its 2023 instructors: Samit Basu, N.K. Jemisin, Karen Lord, Mary Anne Mohanraj & Benjamin Rosenbaum, Cat Rambo, and Arley Sorg. The six-week summer workshop will be held June 25 – August 5, 2023 in Seattle WA, with applications opening in December 2022. For more information, see the Clarion West website.

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Aspen Words, a longstanding literary program of the Aspen Institute, has announced the addition of a new Sci-Fi/Fantasy Writing Workshop, led by author Fonda Lee, expanding their current workshop offerings into genre literature.

The workshop is sponsored by the General Motors’ Future Fiction Collective, which “aims to decolonize the sci-fi/fantasy genre by increasing the diversity of authors and readers in STEM based literature.” They will provide 10 scholarships for writers ...Read More

Lambda Literary has announced open applications for the Writers’ Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices, the “only multi-genre writing residency devoted exclusively to emerging LGBTQ writers”.

The 2022 retreat will be held online July 31 – August 6, 2022, with faculty including Jewelle Gomez (playwriting), torrin a. greathouse (poetry), Zeyn Joukhadar (fiction), Larissa Lai (speculative fiction), Alex Marzano-Lesnevich (non-fiction), Amos Mac (screenwriting), and Mark Oshiro (YA fiction). The applications for entry ...Read More

The Odyssey Writing Workshop has announced the instructors for its online classes in 2022.

Gregory Ashe will teach “Scene & Sequel: How to Generate Character-Driven Momentum, Control Pacing, and Write a Page-Turning Story” from January 6 – February 3, 2022; Barbara Ashford will teach “Getting the Big Picture: The Key to Revising Your Novel” from January 4 – February 15, 2022; and Scott H. Andrews will teach “Emotional Truth: Making ...Read More

The Clarion West Writers Workshop has received a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), as part of a round of funding totaling more than $88 million for projects across the country. Of that amount, $1,490,700 was granted to literary arts projects.

For more information, see the NEA website.

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We Need Diverse Books has launched a new program, the Black Creatives Fund, starting in Spring 2021. The program, sponsored by Penguin Random House, is devoted to “supporting emerging and established Black writers and illustrators,” with plans including a workshop on revision, mentorships, and marketing education in association with The Brown Bookshelf, a group devoted to pro­moting children’s literature by Black creators. The revision workshop will include stipends for a ...Read More

The 2021 Odyssey writing workshop is accepting applications until April 1, 2021. The six-week workshop will be held June 1 – July 7, 2021, though exactly where and how is yet to be determined:

If the world has returned to a post-COVID state of near normality, it will be held as usual on the campus of Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. If social distancing is still neces­sary but ...Read More

The Odyssey Writing Workshop has announced that its summer 2021 classes will be held online. The six-week course is normally held at Saint Anselm College in Manchester NH, though the 2020 session was also held online due to COVID concerns. Odyssey director Jeanne Cavelos said,

Odyssey brings together adult students of all ages from across the globe. Many may not have the opportunity to be vaccinated by summer. If one ...Read More

The Odyssey Writing Workshop has announced recipients of several of its scholarships available for students attending in 2020.

Scott Gray won the Miskatonic Scholarship, funded by George R.R. Martin and covering full tuition and housing for a promising new writer of Lovecraftian cosmic horror.

Vikram Ramakrishnan won the Walter & Kattie Metcalf Singing Spider Scholarship, funded by Pam Metcalf Harrington, covering full tuition for “a fantasy writer whose novel excerpt ...Read More

Applications are now being accepted for the Writers Bootcamp, organized by Borderlands Press, to be held January 29-31, 2021 in Baltimore MD. Robert McCammon is special guest instructor. Other instructors include Ginjer Buchanan, Thomas F. Monteleone, F. Paul Wilson, and Douglas E. Winter. The Tracie Orsi Memorial Scholarship grants free tuition to “the applicant who best exem­plifies Tracie’s talent and energy and determination to improve.” For more, or to apply: ...Read More

Clarion West is offering free writing workshops for teens and adults on a first come, first served basis. The classes and writing sprints will run from March 30 – April 24, 2020. Instructors include K. Tempest Bradford, Marie Brennan, Tobias Buckell, Curtis Chen, Andy Duncan, Eileen Gunn, Elizabeth Hand, James Patrick Kelly, Fonda Lee, Henry Lien, Seanan McGuire, Ian Muneshwar, Brooks Peck, Laurie Penny, Erin Roberts, Nisi Shawl, James Sutter, ...Read More

The Odyssey Writing Workshop has announced several scholarships available for students attending in 2020, ranging in size from several hundred dollars to over $4,000. Scholarship applications and information queries should be made by contacting director Jeanne Cavelos. Scholarships include the Miskatonic Scholarship funded by George R.R. Martin for writers of Lovecraftian cosmic horror; the Walter & Kattie Metcalf Singing Spider Scholarship for novelists (applicants must submit a novel excerpt as ...Read More