Writer Vandana Singh blogs about a science fiction writing workshop that will happen in India this summer. Singh will be one of the instructors:
“Until fairly recently, though, we didn’t know if we were going to have any applicants, but now it is pukka, as we say in India. Eighteen people have been selected based on their submitted writing samples. Most are not established writers but all have promise and enthusiasm. And — amazingly — about 50% are women!”
Nojojojo posts an essay on The Angry Black Woman about the problematic casting choices for the film The Last Airbender.
With this casting, we have two nations of heroic white people fighting genocidal brown people to save other poor downtrodden brown people.
Shared Worlds is a two-week residential camp based on a “shared world” theme. A shared world is a growing trend in fiction that centers around a complete, fictional world designed by a group. During Wofford’s Shared World program, students will design fantasy worlds with other young, creative writers and share those worlds through fiction, art, and game design.
Held on the historic campus of Wofford College in South Carolina, USA, Shared Worlds takes multi-disciplinary learning to a new level. During this two-week-long residential campus learning experience, students will work together with authors and instructors to create entire worlds, complete with history, economy, language and culture. Students will write in those worlds, share those worlds and apply those worlds to fiction, art, and game design.
