All levels and all genres welcome! While we'll do some in-class exercises, this is a craft seminar, not a workshop. DM me for any questions, and here's that link! . (4/4).

Week 2, Exposition and Conflict.- Octavia Butler, "Bloodchild".- Ted Chiang, "Exhalation". Week 3, Time.- Ken Liu, "Seven Birthdays".- Aimee Bender, "The Leading Man". Week 4, Speculative Sentences.- Samuel R. Delaney, "Aye, and Gomorrah".- Cesar Aira, "The Musical Brain". (3/4).

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We'll study techniques for all genres brought into high relief by contemporary SF/F masters. Check out this syllabus:. Week 1, POV and Narrator .- Carmen Maria Machado, "Help Me Follow My Sister into the Land of the Dead" .- Elizabeth McCracken, "Something Amazing" (2/4).

In one month! I'll be teaching a 4-session online seminar through the Lighthouse Writers Workshop, "Standing on the Shoulders of Giant Robots: Craft Lessons from Speculative Fiction." Four Wednesday evenings, March 19 to April 9. Registration link below: (1/4)

And, if we have time, we'll do paragraph-level read of the opening to Chekhov's novella "The Black Monk" and the bravura reality-warping passage from Carmen Maria Machado's "Mothers." (WandaVision should be writing her checks IMO)

It's impossible to narrow this topic to a handful of stories, but I want us to look at Mavis Gallant and Elizabeth McCracken's ghost stories "From the Fifteenth District" and "Something Amazing" (two favorites), and magical realism in Gabo's "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings."

What happens when realist fiction tries to digest the fantastical? We'll take up stories from realists, speculative writers, & the unclassifiable and look at how their mysterious cores shape & invigorate not just plot, character, and theme, but structure, style, even syntax.

Here's the sign-up link:

Hey everyone, in two weeks I'll be teaching an online seminar though @lighthousewrite, on realist fiction with unreality at its center. Details below and at the sign-up link below. Anyone can register. I cannot wait to dive into these stories together!

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