How To Author Like a Strategist – A Weekend Workshop with Suyi Davies Okungbowa
When: July 29th – 30th, 2023 @ 5PM – 7:30PM UTC (click here to convert to your timezone)
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Where: Online over Zoom
Price: 50 – 100 USD (Scholarships available!)
Are you a writer with a book in your head but virtually no time to write it? Maybe you have a day job, school to attend, family members to care for, various life responsibilities grabbing at you, and so that book project has languished away on the backburner, and you’re worried you’ll never get to complete it.
Author and creative writing professor Suyi Davies Okungbowa has been there. That’s why he’s here to tell you that you can still finish this project (because a book is a project) in spite of these pressures. It may take you longer than many, but you will get there. Come on this weekend with us, and he’ll show you how.
In this two-day class, Suyi combines principles from strategic project culture (honed during his time in a former corporate role) and the tips, tricks and techniques he has built up in his author career to deliver a pathway to starting and finishing your book.
Please note that this class will be recorded.
Decolonial Worldbuilding in Science-Fiction and Fantasy – A One-Day Workshop with Helen Gould
When: Sunday June 25th, 2023 @ 2PM – 8 PM UTC (click here to convert to your timezone)
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Where: Online over Zoom
Price: 50 – 100 USD
Genre fiction, like sci-fi and fantasy, are often places where we expect to find escapism; but assumptions around race, the status quo, and colonialism regularly leak into these fictional worlds. Annoyingly, this can happen even when the creator themselves doesn’t want it to!
This one-day workshop with instructor Helen Gould will help writers to identify and challenge the common tropes they might automatically be relying on when creating fictional worlds. In the first half, you’ll explore foundational literary theories about colonisation and its impact on culture; in the second half, you’ll look at how decolonial thinking can apply to the creative process and inspire different kinds of worlds.
Please note that this class will be recorded.
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