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Workshop Descriptions & Instructors Faith Adiele Mary Allen Kate Aspengren Thomas Fox Averill Nancy Barry Timothy Bascom Linda Bendorf Venise Berry Bruce Bond Michael Dennis Browne Susan Taylor Chehak John Dalton Thomas K. Dean Amber Dermont Kelly Dwyer Hope Edelman Josh Emmons Katie Ford Patricia Foster Laura Fraser Cecile Goding Douglas Goetsch Kevin González John Griesemer Sands Hall Christine Hemp Jim Heynen Rick Hillis Charles Holdefer Richard Jackson Cheryl Fusco Johnson Wayne Johnson Bret Anthony Johnston Daniel Khalastchi Zachary Lazar Carolyn Lieberg BK Loren Fritz Mc Donald James McKean Gordon Mennenga Katherine Min Sharelle Byars Moranville Michael Morse Barbara Robinette Moss Marc Nieson Shannon Olson Lon Otto Juliet Patterson Anjali Sachdeva Sarah Saffian Sam Samuels Leslie Schwartz Sandra Scofield Mary Kay Shanley Carol Spindel Karen Subach Mary Vermillion Ashley Warlick Jan Weissmiller Bart Yates	Anjali Sachdeva Fantasy And Science Fiction: Creating And Populating A World Apart Weekend Workshop June 14-15 Biography Fantasy And Science Fiction: Creating And Populating A World Apart Weekend Workshop June 14-15 All writers seek to create a world and invite the reader in—but what about writers who choose to make that world markedly different from the one we inhabit? In this workshop, we’ll examine the particular challenges that writers of science fiction and fantasy face, with an emphasis on creating worlds and characters. How can we weave a version of reality that is both novel and convincing? How do we help readers care for characters who are superhuman, or not human at all? Through discussion of published fiction and participants’ work, as well as short on-the-spot writing experiments, we’ll explore techniques and strategies to answer these questions. For the purposes of this workshop we’ll define fantasy and sci-fi loosely: surrealism, magic realism, altered/modernized mythology, allegory, and so on will be included. However, as the focus of the workshop is on creating your own new worlds and characters, please do not submit or plan to learn about fan fiction. Participants should bring the first 5-6 pages (double-spaced) of their own piece of fantasy or sci-fi writing. Biography Anjali Sachdeva teaches English at Augustana College and has taught fiction writing at The University of Iowa. Her fiction is anthologized in The Barefoot Nuns of Barcelona and Other Stories, and in 2006 she was a finalist for the George Bennett and Axton writing fellowships. She has worked as a journalist in the United States and Ireland, and has an M.F.A. in fiction from The University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

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