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Learn to write characters very different from you sensitively and convincingly

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Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward

Bridging Cultural Differences for Successful Fiction | March 2016

January 1, 2016October 4, 2021Writing the Other
The Classic Workshop Returns! Are you afraid to write about characters whose racial heritage, sexual orientation, or religion differs from your own? Do [...]

Closed: Writing the Other Online | Fall 2015

August 1, 2015October 4, 2021Writing the Other
When: September 26th to October 31st weekly on Saturdays at 10am PacificLocation: ONLINE via Google HangoutPrice: $450 + service feeRegistration begins: August 26th, [...]
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Writing the Other Workshop and Retreat

January 1, 2014July 23, 2023Writing the Other
The first Workshop and Retreat took place in June of 2014 with instructors David Anthony Durham, K. Tempest Bradford, Mary Robinette Kowal, Nisi [...]

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Going into the workshop I had a particular story I was burning to learn how to tell without being inappropriate. I was terrified I was writing it (and anything else involving characters of color) like an out-of-touch white dork. Ms. Shawl and Ms. Bradford were compassionate and emotionally generous while being very straightforward. Their class both eased my mind and made me realize how clueless I’ve been; it has started me on a lifetime learning project that can do nothing but make me a better writer.

― Ellen Saunders, a Weekend Intensive student

This class was eye-opening and world building for me as a writer. The content was amazing, the guest speakers impressive, and the exercises broadened my thinking. If you want to build worlds in your writing (and after the class I would argue that worlds get built in all fiction) you need to take this class. It will give you the knowledge, courage and community to take risks, to be inclusive in ways you’d not yet thought of, and to change the world by building a better one.

― Michelle, a Building Inclusive Worlds student

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