Literary Speculative Fiction :: A Webinar with Lidia Yuknavitch — July 17

Literary Speculative Fiction :: A Webinar with Lidia Yuknavitch

Are you writing toward the territory of speculative fiction, the polyphonic novel, or literary innovations in fiction that take you off-road, possibly off-map? In this webinar we will talk about some recent examples of Literary Speculative fiction, explore some narrative strategies, and open up a few writing portals for practice.

Good examples to eyeball ahead of time: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, The Overstory by Richard Powers, The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the short story collection Verge (Riverhead Books), the novels The Book of Joan (Harper Books), The Small Backs of Children (Harper Books), and Dora: A Headcase (Hawthorne Books), and the anti-memoir The Chronology of Water (Hawthorne Books). Her TED Talk “On the Beauty of Being a Misfit” has received over 3 million views, and spawned The Misfit Manifesto (TED Books/Simon and Schuster). She lives and collaborates in Portland, Oregon at Corporeal Writing. She is a very good swimmer.

WHAT: A two-hour* online webinar with Lidia Yuknavitch and at least one magical guest. (*We’ll take breaks. Everybody’s gotta pee!)

WHEN: Sunday, July 17, 1PM-3PM Pacific (4PM-6PM Eastern)

WHERE: ZOOM. Meeting ID will be provided ahead of time. (Interested in this event but unable to join it live? All registered attendees will receive a link to a recording that will be viewable for one week afterwards.)

HOW MUCH: $125. Payment plans are available, contact Daniel Elder at registration@corporealwriting.com

SCHOLARSHIPS: Scholarships are always available. Click here to apply.