Here in Lincoln City, over the last nine years, Kris and I have, at times, put on workshops focusing on the needs of professional writers. We figure that a lot of people help out new writers, but no one helps the newer professional writers, the writers working hard to sell, who are starting to sell, who have a dream to be a full time professional fiction writer.

Over the years writers and editors such as Michael Swanwick, K. W. Jeter, Denise Little, Ginjer Buchanan, John Douglas, Loren L. Coleman, Gardner Dozois, Laura Anne Gilman, and others have helped Kris and I teach these workshops. And this year, Asimov’s editor Sheila Williams joins the fun in September.

So these workshops are focused at a professional level. We are back doing workshops for the next year. We tend to start and stop these as the years go by since they are a lot of work to put on and teach. But for the moment, we have decided to do the following workshops over the next year. If you have any questions, just e-mail me. And feel free to send any professional writer, either with novels or short stories published in professional level markets to this page. Keep up the learning.

Summary of workshops and dates and costs:

All workshops start at 7 PM unless otherwise noted. All workshops include room costs. All workshops are held in Lincoln City on the Oregon Coast, two hours from Portland, Oregon. If you would like to sign up for any of these or have questions please e-mail me at Dean@deanwesleysmith.com and put the words writer’s workshops in your subject line.

–SHORT STORY WORKSHOP. Sheila Williams, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith. September 11, 12, 13, 14, 2008. $800.00 Includes three nights room.

–MASTER CLASS FALL October, 2008. (Full)

–NOVEL/MARKETING WORKSHOP November 7 through 15, 2008. $1,200.00 for both.  Includes nine nights room. Dean Wesley Smith, John Douglas comments on novels. All aspects of marketing, including everything you will need to know about agents.

–NOVEL WORKSHOP January 30, 31, February 1, 2009. $300.00. Includes two nights room. Dean Wesley Smith. New York editor John Douglas comments on novels.

–DENISE LITTLE ANTHOLOGY WORKSHOP February 19, 20, 21, 22, 2009. $600.00. Includes three nights room. Denise Little, Dean Wesley Smith. Short story workshop focused on professional anthologies, writing for them, how to get invited, and so on.

--MASTER CLASS SPRING 2009. February 28 through March 14, 2009. $2,500.00. Includes 15 nights room. Instructors: novelists Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith, Loren L. Coleman, Christine York and New York editors Ginjer Buchanan and John Douglas. A complete master course on ever detail about the publishing industry and two weeks of help on craft issues to help professionals understand what they do well and what needs work on the craft side to help sell regularly. Business and craft, a boot camp for professional level writers.  If your goal is to make a living with your writing, or your career is stalled, this is the workshop to take.

–NOVEL WORKSHOP April 3, 4, 5, 2009. $300.00 (same as above)

–NOVEL/MARKETING WORKSHOP May 1 through May 9, 2009. $1,200.00 for both. (same as November)