Jun 16 2008
Short Story Workshop
In September this year, just three short months away, a very special workshop will be held here on the Oregon Coast. September 11, 12, 13, and 14, Sheila Williams, the editor of Asimov’s Magazine will teach a short story workshop. She will be joined by Hugo Award winning editor and writer, Kristine Kathryn Rusch. (I’ll be there as well, but even with all my editing and short story sales, I don’t hold a candle to those two. I’ll be fetching the drinks.)
Kris and Sheila are on the top of the form. If they can’t help you become a better short story writer, a better writer in general, no one can. And you have four days with them.
The format of the workshop is going to be pretty simple. The writers signed up will have a few months to write two short stories this summer. Sheila, Kris, and I will then talk about the stories, and if Sheila really likes the story, she might have you send it in to her. At the workshop, the writers will also write a new story to assignment.
So the writers attending will have three stories in front of the editor of Asimov’s, letting her get to know you, get to know your work, get to know your fiction. This is an opportunity that just doesn’t come along very often.
The information about this workshop has been held close for a time, since my fear was that it would fill up too fast, but here we are three months out and there are still five spots open. So if you are interested, if you have been mailing stories to Sheila regularly and haven’t had any luck yet, if you just want to know how to write better stories and find out what is both right and wrong with your writing, e-mail me and put Short Story Workshop on the subject line. I’ll give you all the details.
A once-in-a-lifetime workshop. Sheila Williams and Kristine Kathryn Rusch helping you learn short fiction. A chance to sell stories to Asimov’s. It just doesn’t come any better. Don’t miss this one.
Cheers
Dean
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Dean –
You did mean Sept 11 (Thursday) through Sept 14 (Sunday), right? I hope so, cause I’ve already made my reservations!
And somehow you managed to make the workshop sound even more awesome, and as a result I’m even more thrilled about it than I already was! And intimidated, too…
Really looking forward to this!
- yeff
Yes, thanks, Jeff. I changed it. Thursday, September 11 through Sunday September 14, 2008.
Cheers
Dean
I’m interested in information about the workshop.
Thanks
Sam Wilson
Some of the basic information is over under the header “workshops” on this site. And in this post. I think I covered most everything in those two spots. But if you have more questions, just e-mail me through the contact me. I’ll be glad to answer any questions.
One thing extra I didn’t stress is that these workshops I have announced are not for beginning writers. But the word beginning is a hard term to put a line on, to be honest. We let people in who haven’t sold a thing yet, but who are working darned hard at getting there. So just because you may still think of yourself as a beginner, but are driven to be a professional writer, you might be right for these workshops. Write me and let me make that call.
Cheers
Dean
I would like to participate if there is still space. I sent an email too before I realized you could comment here.
Thea Hutcheson