Our COURSES
We offer genre-focused workshops that cover every angle of the craft modern writers need to know. Our professional workshop leaders are dedicated to helping you reach your writing goals!
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Seduce Your Writing – On Demand
Learn how to approach your writing with an editorial eye, taking the raw material and shaping it into a compelling narrative. Perfect for writers of all experience levels looking to improve their self-editing skills. This 60-minute session will cover, with examples, approaches to creative expression by: To form something that feels right, the feeling right…
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Writing Folk Horror
Join us for an immersive workshop delving into the eerie and captivating realm of folk horror in literature. Throughout this course, participants will unravel the rich tapestry of folk traditions, superstitions, and cultural narratives intertwined with horror storytelling. Whether you’re a seasoned writer or a budding wordsmith, this workshop offers a unique opportunity to craft…
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Ready. Set. Go! How to write perfect openings.
Ready, Set, Go! How to write the perfect opening for your story, from the first paragraph to those all-important first chapters
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Nostalgia Sells – Writing Coming-Of-Age Horror Stories
Join Tom Deady, 2016 Bram Stoker Award-winning author of HAVEN for this live 90 minute webinar. Explore all facets of the coming-of-age journey. Create and grow a believable, likable protagonist to star in your story. Learn how to how to use the everyday struggle of growing up as a backdrop to your story. And more!
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Nonlinear Fiction – VOD
This class will explore nonlinear fiction of various lengths, with a focus on speculative fiction. Sessions will involve text analysis, structural diagramming, historical and cultural traditions in nonlinear fiction, the goals and motivations for writing nonlinear narratives, and strategies and tools to stay organized.
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Outlining Your Novel – On Demand
Don’t like outlining? Feel like it stifles your excitement to create? Just want to build on or experiment with your current outlining practice? This class will have something for everyone, from pantsers to plotters, to create a transparent, flexible outlining system that works for you and your process and results in faster, more joyful writing.
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Writing the SF Short Story
Do you want to write short stories? Not sure where to start – or how to finish? Join us for this masterclass in the art of the SF short story, from conception to execution! Learn how to find new ideas, tackle effective story openings, understand structure and explore plot, discover story beats, find emotional truths…
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How to Write Authentic Queer Characters – On Demand
Diversity in fiction is a hot topic, and there are ways it can be achieved that are organic and honest. Join author Mark Allan Gunnells as he gives tips for creating authentic and complex queer characters.
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Exploring Our Monsters – On Demand
Monsters have become a staple of the fiction we consume. Turn to any book, movie, or video game, and you’ll find some sort of monster. Oftentimes, this monster is a “recycled” version of one we’ve encountered before: a fresh kind of vampire, werewolf, witch, etc. Yet no matter how much time goes by, and how…