Introductory Speculative Fiction Led By C.L. Clark

Sundays, March 13th - April 3rd, 2022 | 1 PM ET - 4 PM ET

Tuition | $200.00

Capacity: 20 Storytellers

Whether you’re new to writing or just new to writing science fiction and fantasy, this 4-session workshop will introduce you to the current conventions of the genre and how you can make them your own as you progress in your writing journey. In particular, we’ll talk about how to sculpt a few elements of fiction--worldbuilding, characters, occasion--into a speculative short story. This course would also be great for experienced genre writers looking to move from long-form to short-form for the first time. We’ll spend time generating ideas, characters, and settings, and sculpting these massive worlds into a tale that leaves your readers satisfied and wanting more at the same time.

About the Faculty: C.L. Clark is a BFA award-winning editor and Ignyte award winning-writer, and the author of The Unbroken, the first book in the Magic of the Lost trilogy. She graduated from Indiana University’s creative writing MFA and was a 2012 Lambda Literary Fellow. She’s been a personal trainer, an English teacher, and an editor, and is some combination thereof as she travels the world. When she’s not writing or working, she’s learning languages, doing P90something, or reading about war and [post-]colonial history. Her work has appeared in Fantasy Magazine, Uncanny, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and more.

Partial and full scholarships are available. Email scholarship inquiries to Info@RootsWoundsWords.org. Explicitly state the scholarship (partial or full) you’re interested in.

Like all RWW offerings, this space is for Black, Indigenous, Latinx/e, Asian, and other Storytellers of Color only. BIPOC Storytellers are centered here, exclusively.