Family, Culture, and KidLit – a Conversation with Shveta Thakrar
A conversation with YA author Shveta Thakrar about writing YA and Middle Grade families outside of the WASP or Western family framework pushed by most media and literature.
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Deep Dive Into Building Inclusive Worlds
Worldbuilding for speculative fiction can be a daunting task, even moreso for authors who want to create inclusive cultures filled with diverse characters. This class offers writers a deep dive into key aspects of building inclusive worlds.
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Deep Dive Into Dialogue and Dialect | a Writing the Other class
An essential part of creating a character is understanding how that individual speaks or communicates. In this 3 week craft-focused class we’ll help you sharpen your dialogue skills through lectures, hands-on exercises, and feedback.
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Writing the Other on Writing Excuses – Yes, You Can!
If you’ve heard from agents or editors that writing books that aren’t #OwnVoices isn’t something you can do, listen to us dismantle that idea and give advice for how you can go forward.
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A Writer’s Guide to Research for Fiction
Whether you’re a writer who creates whole new worlds or futures, a writer who uses historical settings or events, or a writer crafting characters whose identities or cultures are very different from your own, you need to learn effective research skills.
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Writing Fat Characters – An Interview With Marianne Kirby
Tempest interviewed Marianne about fat characters, why she uses the term Fat, non-conforming bodies, and stereotypes to avoid and representations she’d like to see.
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Writing the Other on Writing Excuses – Latinx Representation
Julia Rios joins Tempest on Writing Excuses to talk about writing characters who come from one of the many Latin-American cultures or subcultures. There’s a LOT of discussion of food (yum!)
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Deep Dive Into Description | a Writing the Other class
When writers get to the point of describing people from marginalized groups they’re sometimes filled with anxiety over the words and phrases they should use.
In this three week craft-centric class, authors Nisi Shawl and K. Tempest Bradford dive deep into these language and description pitfalls and how to avoid them.
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Who’s Consuming Whom? – A Roundtable Discussion
Join three award-winning authors and editors as they dig into the roots of this dynamic in speculative fiction and publishing.
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Deep Dive Into Diverse Characters | Year of Writing Inclusively
Authors Nisi Shawl, Piper J. Drake, and K. Tempest Bradford will dive deep into character creation with writing exercises, discussion, and lectures on intersectionality, character relationships, avoiding stereotypes and tropes, and depicting characters from different genders, sexualities, classes, ethnicities, ability levels, and religious backgrounds.
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