Dear SF Writers

 

Please find information below about our year long course with Lucy Sussex at the Victorian Writers’ Centre. It would be very appreciated if you could promote this to interested members via your networks.

 

Many thanks

Kind regards

 

Mary Napier

VWC Program Manager

Ph. 9654 9068

Fax. 9654 4751

(Available Tuesday to Friday, 10am - 5pm)

 

2009 IS YOUR YEAR OF WRITING

 

UNLESS SPECIFIED OTHERWISE, ALL EVENTS ARE HELD AT THE VICTORIAN WRITERS’ CENTRE, 1^ST FLOOR NICHOLAS BG, 37 SWANSTON ST, MELBOURNE. BOOKINGS ARE ESSENTIAL FOR ALL EVENTS. PH. 9654 9068

 

The Year of Speculative Fiction – the SF Novel Challenge

With Lucy Sussex

Course: Speculative fiction is all around us: in film, TV and the prognostications of Earth’s future. It can vary from alternate worlds (Nazis win WW2), to near-future thrillers, supernatural romances, space opera (Star Trek novels) and dispatches from the frontiers of the human imagination. The challenge, in this series of workshops, is to write a speculative fiction novel in 2009, workshop it and learn how to market it – even sell it! Award-winning writer Lucy Sussex hosts the challenge, which includes guest spots from editors, publishers and publicists. Lucy Sussex is a writer in various genres, including speculative fiction. She has won Ditmar and Aurealis awards, and been shortlisted for the World Fantasy Guild and IGHW (International Guild of Horror Writers) awards. To be eligible, sample chapters and story outlines are required to be submitted by Monday 2 March (max 1000 words).

When: Saturdays 28 March, 23 May, 25 July, 26 September, 28 November, 10am – 4pm

Cost: $570, Members $530/$500