Online Feedback Clinic: Speculative Fiction
Writers Victoria
Speculative fiction empowers you to understand other perspectives. It encourages a response in fiction to sometimes real-world themes, like climate change, technology, societal dysfunction, and the crucial what if? In this online feedback clinic that runs over five months, author Eugen Bacon will offer you feedback on your short story or excerpt of a longer work of fiction, enabling you to hone your work with believable worlds and robust characters in convincing speculative fiction.
Starts 18 July. Pieces of up to 1500 words due 21 July, 25 August, 22 September, 27 October, 24 November.
Our Online Feedback Clinics are asynchronous, with no face-to-face meetings, allowing you to engage with the content at the times of day and week that suit your schedule. They are hosted on our private Wordpress server. There will be an optional Zoom introduction to the clinic website for those less confident with technology, which will be recorded for those who cannot attend live. For more information on our online feedback clinics, please read our FAQs.
You Will Learn:
- to be your first critical reader
- to craft convincing speculative fiction
- to hook your audience
- to build immersive worlds that may be strange yet believable
- to employ one or more genre or subgenre of fantasy, science fiction or horror/paranormal
About the Tutor:
Eugen Bacon is an African Australian author of novels, short stories and prose poetry. She’s a 2022 World Fantasy Award finalist, and was honoured in the 2022 Otherwise Fellowships for ‘doing exciting work in gender and speculative fiction’. Danged Black Thing received an Otherwise Award honour as a ‘sharp collection of Afro-Surrealist work’. Eugen has two novels, a novella and three anthologies (ed) coming out in 2023, including Serengotti, and Danged Black Thing (US).
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When: 18 July 2023 - 12:00 through 24 November 2023 - 12:00 Where: Online AustraliaSubscribe to events
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