NOTE: This workshop is sold out. If you’d like to be on a wait list, email yobarrelhouse at gmail dot com and put “Tara Campbell workshop” in the subject line.

May 1-June 15, 2020

SUMMARY:

Have you noticed a splash of magic or a hint of the surreal worming its way into your work? Join us for a six-week introduction to science fiction, fantasy, and other ways of working with fantastical elements in fiction. This class does not center on warp drives or the clan structures of best-selling mythical empires. Instead, we’ll read and discuss an array of stories that demonstrate how authors are examining human lives and relationships through alternate realities. Works by women and POC will be highlighted. In each class we’ll discuss a published story and discuss its position in the realm of speculative fiction (sci-fi, fantasy, urban fantasy, supernatural, etc). Participants will write to weekly prompts and have the opportunity to workshop a story excerpt at the end of the course.

HOW WILL THIS WORK?

We’ll read and discuss an array of published sci-fi and fantasy fiction, and each week you’ll write from prompts or your own imagination to create your own tiny, new worlds.The workshop is completely asynchronous so you don’t have to be in any online place at any online time. We will use the Canvas learning management system, which is pretty simple and easy to figure out.

WHO IS TARA CAMPBELL?

Tara Campbell (www.taracampbell.com) is a writer, teacher, Kimbilio Fellow, and fiction editor at Barrelhouse. Prior publication credits include SmokeLong Quarterly, Masters Review, Jellyfish Review, Booth, and Strange Horizons. She's the author of a novel,TreeVolution, a hybrid fiction/poetry collection,Circe's Bicycle, and a short story collection,Midnight at the Organporium. She received her MFA from American University in 2019