Craft & Career: The Writers Grotto Lecture Series

Join The Writers Grotto lecture series as our members dive into the Craft & Career of being a writer.

Character as a Function of World

Saturday, Oct. 5th, from 1 - 2pm│This seminar, lead by Khan Wong, explores world building by starting with a character and reverse-engineering the culture that would produce such a person or set of circumstances. Khan will offer an example from his own work, and lead the class through an exploratory exercise for their own characters. The material is geared towards creators of secondary-world science fiction and fantasy, but the ideas could be applied to real-world settings as well.

The Pride of Craft: a Queer BIPOC Perspective

*CANCELLED* Sunday, Oct. 20th, from 1 - 2:30pm│In this panel, lead by writer and activist Chino Lee Chung, our panelists will read a sample of their writing that employs an element of craft they're particularly proud of and discuss their process as it intersects with their identity as Queer BIPOCs. There are so many elements of craft that we can discuss and learn from such as dialogue, setting, stakes, tension, extracting the heart of interviews, research, or emotionality. Panelists for this Craft & Career are: Akasha Neely (poetry), Dominic Lim (fiction), Janine Mogannam (poetry), Karina Muñiz (creative nonfiction), and Natalie Devora (creative nonfiction).