Editor’s note: As a site primarily focused on science fiction and fantasy literature, this blog considers itself lucky to have a few genuine practitioners of the genre on staff. When we learned one of them, Lauren Naturale, had attended the famed Clarion Writers’ Workshop, an intensive six-week program that’s like a condensed Iowa Writers’ Workshop for […]
It’s almost November,which means it’s almost National Novel Writing Month, those 30 glorious, frustrating, enervating, nerve-wracking days when writers everywhere attempt to pen an entire book (or at least 50,000 words of one). Anyone who has attempted NaNoWriMo knows hitting that goal is certainly possible, but also just as certainly not easy. And it could […]
At this year’s Hugo Awards, an unprecedented number of shiny rocket trophies went to women writers. And yet, despite the strong female presence in science fiction and fantasy awards over the past few years, women still face struggles in the field, from online harassment to readers who question their credibility. It’s one thing the future […]
In Storyteller: Writing Lessons and More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop, Kate Wilhelm wrote, “Great fiction reveals that there is no such thing as a common, everyday uninteresting person. They are all interesting if you learn enough about them to discover who lives behind the facade.” So we asked members of the […]