Courses
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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Mastering the Art of Sci-Fi and Fantasy Crime Fiction
Mystery and crime are two of the most popular genres of our time, the mainstay of numerous books and television shows. They also have an enormous influence on science fiction and fantasy, from Asimov’s The Caves of Steel to William Gibson’s Neuromancer and beyond. In this class we’ll discuss the different approaches to mystery and crime, from the…
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How to Write Inclusively Without Appropriation
When it comes to storytelling, we all want to write colorful worlds that reflect and represent our everyday experience, but navigating gender, race and marginalization along with managing our own assumptions can be hard when you try to do it without guidelines and awareness. From sensitivity readers to taboos, let’s talk about struggles, and what…
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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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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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Keep It Short: Writing Flash Fiction
Writing flash and micro fiction can be a satisfying, quick way to tell stories and there are an increasing number of markets for both forms. Getting a story right in under 1000 words, or in the case of micro fiction, under 250, is a challenge. This workshop will be part lecture and part workshop, including…
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Creating an Effective First Page
Join us for an immersive workshop where we dissect the essential components of a captivating first page in genre fiction. From creating a gripping opening line to introducing compelling characters and establishing the story’s inciting incident, we will explore the art of hooking your readers from the beginning. Through lecture, discussion, and hands-on exercises, you…
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Keep It Short: Writing Flash Fiction
Writing flash and micro fiction can be a satisfying, quick way to tell stories and there are an increasing number of markets for both forms. Getting a story right in under 1000 words, or in the case of micro fiction, under 250, is a challenge. This workshop will be part lecture and part workshop, including…
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Writing Tips and Strategies for Neurodiverse Writers
Neurodiverse writers have always been around and frequently approach the art of fiction in different ways from neurotypical people. For authors who are on the autistic spectrum, have ADHD, anxiety, dyslexia, bipolar disorder, and other diverse ways of experiencing the world, traditional advice on how to write fiction may actually be harmful or counterproductive. In…
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Plot Mastery: Strategies and Formulas for Satisfying Narratives
Many writers find plot scary, or feel it has to be instinctive. This class is here to tell you that isn’t the case. There are formulas and guidelines you can use to give your story the bones it needs to feel satisfying and complete to the reader. The first session will cover beginnings and endings,…