Coming Soon!
Before we dive into three glorious Narrativity days of talking theory and craft, let’s get practical! Join us Thursday, July 22, for a day-long workshop focused on what you write, how you’ve written it, what we can do to help you write it better, and what you can do to help some of us do the same.
Workshop participants will submit up to 5000 words for critique by one of our workshop leaders and up to five of your fellow writers. Critiques will happen in small groups and be bookended by two workshop-wide discussions. You’ll get coffee/tea/etc. first thing, lunch in the middle, an in-depth discussion focused on your writing, and (almost certainly) a few new comrade-in-arms friendships.
Workshop leaders will be announced soon.
Submission Guidelines
You can submit one complete short story or one excerpt from a novel or longer story, up to 5000 words. Please no poetry or non-fiction. If you have a screenplay, please check with us first (so we can be sure there’s a group that’s conversant with the form).
Genre: any (with the recognition that we’re mostly sci-fi/fantasy writers)
Format: Please use Shunn manuscript format (classic or modern), or something reasonably close to it (double-spaced, 1″ margins, 12-point Times New Roman, header with name/abbreviated title/page numbers). Especially page numbers. And be sure to put your name on it!
Cover sheet: Please include a cover sheet with the title and genre of the piece, and your name and email address.
If your submission is not a complete short story, please let us know whether it’s the beginning of a story or novel. If it’s not the beginning, please give us no more than 200 words of context on the cover sheet.
Deadline for manuscript submission will be about a month before the con. (Exact date will be announced when sign-ups open.) Early is fine. Late is not. If you’re not finished, send what you’ve got. It doesn’t have to be a full 5000 words and it doesn’t have to be perfect. It does have to be on time, because we want to get the 15,000-25,000 words you’ll be critiquing to you with enough time for you to do them justice. Please do them justice. We’re not going to require a full printed page of critique for each piece you read, but giving good critique is good manners and a great education.
Sign-ups for the workshop will be opening soon. We’ll announce it here and on our mailing list. If you’re not on our mailing list, let us know you’d like to be added so you won’t miss this and other announcements! And it wouldn’t hurt to subscribe to website updates, either.
And of course, if you have any questions about how all this works, please drop us a line, and we’ll do our best to answer them.