Science Fiction Writing Workshop
Is environment a speculative field? In this eight week workshop, we will consider the polyvalence of wastes by passing rapidly amongst the desert and the frozen. With an emphasis on speculative fiction novels from Samuel Delany and Anna Kavan, Students will perform a reading of what it means to be a waste a wasting a waste/land, in all its (anti)productive force. As we examine these speculative landscapes, we will consider the implications and potentialities of rendering our own wastelands in word(s) by completing weekly writing prompts and workshopping together. The course readings will familiarize students with science fiction devices and possibilities to generate new speculative works. Our science fiction readings will be supplemented with selected critical and literary readings. This is an open genre course.
Workshop Goals
This workshop will be divided into an hour of critical and generative discussion amongst the class about the readings and an hour and a half of group workshopping, however, this is subject to recalibration dependent upon the needs of the particular group. By the end of the course, students will have produced and workshopped seven discrete speculative pieces in any and/or multiple and/or not yet invented genres. In the final session, we will discuss methods for organizing the works into a chapbook or tentative full-length book project.
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, Samuel Delany Ice, Anna Kavan Outgoing Vessel, Ursula Andkjær Olsen
Start Date
Here's a review of the Dhalgren course from Krystal Languell in periodicities.
Classes will begin tentatively in October, 2022.
Our workshops will take place in weekly 2 1/2 hours sessions conducted as video conferences over Zoom. I will provide a syllabus, creative writing prompts, PDFs, and a suggested and required reading list to all enrolled students.
The Course will be $425* per student (around 53.13 per weekly 2.5 hour session).
*Contact me about need-based aid and paying via installment.
Students may cancel up to a week before the start date for a full refund minus a $20 fee. Otherwise, if a student drops out of the course they will be charged a prorated fee based on the course week, starting with week 1. There will be no refunds issued after week 3.
In this eight week workshop, we will be investigating the possibilities of science fiction tropes, as kitsch culture and/or portals to radical social rupture. We will independently consume assigned course media, including science fiction poetry and film, as instigatory means of producing our own speculative works. We will particularly focus on the book Dhalgren* and I will also provide PDFs of selected stories and critical readings (from writers like Octavia Butler and Foucault). We will think about space vampires and narrative time. We will consider the speculative with respect to avant-garde language in Girondo's work. Students will share and workshop weekly writing assignments. This is an open genre course so writing in any genre will be accepted.
*Repeat readers of Dhalgren welcome
Workshop Goals
This workshop will be divided into an hour of critical and generative discussion amongst the class about the readings and an hour and a half of group workshopping, however, this is subject to recalibration dependent upon the needs of the particular group. By the end of the course, students will have produced and workshopped seven discrete speculative pieces in any and/or multiple and/or not yet invented genres. In the final session, we will discuss methods for organizing the works into a chapbook or tentative full-length book project.
Dhalgren In the Moremarrow The Invention of Morel
Start Date
Here's a review of the course from Krystal Languell in periodicities.
Classes will tentatively begin on April 12th.
Our workshops will take place in weekly 2 1/2 hours sessions conducted as video conferences over Zoom. I will provide a syllabus, creative writing prompts, PDFs, and a suggested and required reading list to all enrolled students.
The Course will be $425* per student.
*Contact me about need-based aid and paying via installment.
Students may cancel up to a week before the start date for a full refund minus a $20 fee. Otherwise, if a student drops out of the course they will be charged a prorated fee based on the course week, starting with week 1. There will be no refunds issued after week 3.
Science Fiction Writing Workshop
Is environment a speculative field? In this eight week workshop, we will consider the polyvalence of wastes by passing rapidly amongst the desert and the frozen. With an emphasis on two novels from Samuel Delany and Anna Kavan, Students will perform an Eco Language reading of what it means to be a waste a wasting a waste/land, in all its (anti)productive force. As we examine these speculative landscapes, we will consider the implications and potentialities of rendering our own wastes in word(s). The course readings will familiarize students with science fiction devices and possibilities to generate new speculative works. Our science fiction readings will be supplemented with selected critical and literary readings. This is an open genre course.
Workshop Goals
This workshop will be divided into an hour of critical and generative discussion amongst the class about the readings and an hour and a half of group workshopping, however, this is subject to recalibration dependent upon the needs of the particular group. By the end of the course, students will have produced and workshopped seven discrete speculative pieces in any and/or multiple and/or not yet invented genres. In the final session, we will discuss methods for organizing the works into a chapbook or tentative full-length book project.
Contact Me for the Required Book List
Start Date
Classes will begin in ???.
Our workshops will take place in weekly 2 1/2 hours sessions conducted as video conferences over Skype. I will provide a syllabus, creative writing prompts, PDFs, and a suggested and required reading list to all enrolled students.
The Course will be $425* per student.
*Contact me about need-based aid and paying via installment.
Students may cancel up to a week before the start date for a full refund minus a $20 fee. Otherwise, if a student drops out of the course they will be charged a prorated fee based on the course week, starting with week 1. There will be no refunds issued after week 3.
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The Vampire Workshop
These two complementary four week workshops, which can be taken together or separately, will investigate poetic and narrative practices through the respective (anti)themes of crystallography and vampire lore. In The Crystal Workshop, we will read poetic texts by Coolidge and Bok, alongside supplementary critical texts, to investigate crystals as generative forms with and from which to organize the ap/parent world. In the Vampire Workshop, we will read experimental novels by Bellamy and Luca in conjunction with readings of sadism and ethnographies of vampirism. We will use vampyric lore as an allegorical lens with and through which to generate creative works examining the limit(ation)s of the Real and Violence. These are both open genre courses.
Workshop Goals
This workshop will be divided into an hour of critical and generative discussion amongst the class about the readings and an hour to an hour and a half of group workshopping, however, this is subject to recalibration dependent upon the needs of the particular group. By the end of each respective course, students will have produced and workshopped four discrete pieces in any and/or multiple and/or not yet invented genres. In the final session, we will discuss methods for organizing the works into a chapbook or tentative full-length book project.
Crystallography by Christian Bok The Crystal Text by Clark Coolidge
The Passive Vampire by Gherasim Luca The Letters of Mina Harker by Dodie Bellamy
Start Date
Classes will begin in July, 2021.
Our workshops will take place in weekly 2 to 2 1/2 hours sessions conducted as video conferences over Skype. I will provide a syllabus, creative writing prompts, PDFs, and a suggested and required reading list to all enrolled students.
The Course will be sliding scale $120-225 per student.
*Contact me about need-based aid and paying via installment.
Students may cancel up to a week before the start date for a full refund minus a $20 fee. Otherwise, if a student drops out of the course they will be charged a prorated fee based on the course week, starting with week 1. There will be no refunds issued after week 2.
Science Fiction Writing Workshop
In this eight week workshop, we will investigate UFO lore as an allegorical lens with and through which to generate creative works examining the limit(ation)s of the Real. In this eight week workshop, we will be studying the potentialities of science fiction tropes from the New Wave. The readings will familiarize students with science fiction devices and possibilities to generate new speculative works. The particular focus of the course will be our readings of New Wave classics Up the Walls of the World and The Einstein Intersection, both of which will be supplemented with selected critical and literary readings. This is an open genre course.
Workshop Goals
This workshop will be divided into an hour of critical and generative discussion amongst the class about the readings and an hour and a half of group workshopping, however, this is subject to recalibration dependent upon the needs of the particular group. By the end of the course, students will have produced and workshopped seven discrete speculative pieces in any and/or multiple and/or not yet invented genres. In the final session, we will discuss methods for organizing the works into a chapbook or tentative full-length book project.
Up the Walls of the World by James Tiptree Jr Einstein Intersection by Samuel Delany Dark Matter by Aase Berg Exobiology as Goddess by Will Alexander
Start Date
Classes will begin in March, 2021.
Our workshops will take place in weekly 2 1/2 hours sessions conducted as video conferences over Skype. I will provide a syllabus, creative writing prompts, PDFs, and a suggested and required reading list to all enrolled students.
The Course will be $425* per student.
*Contact me about need-based aid and paying via installment.
Students may cancel up to a week before the start date for a full refund minus a $20 fee. Otherwise, if a student drops out of the course they will be charged a prorated fee based on the course week, starting with week 1. There will be no refunds issued after week 3.
