Why hang out in a regular old forest when you could be in one thatโs โจenchantedโจ?
Why hang out in a regular old forest when you could be in one thatโs โจenchantedโจ?
Now if you want the settings in the ๐จ๐ฉ๐ค๐ง๐๐๐จ ๐ฎ๐ค๐ชโ๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐ง๐๐ฉ๐๐ฃ๐ to feel more like characters than places, check out our online writing course, ๐ฆ๐๐ก๐ง๐๐๐ก๐ง ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ง๐๐ก๐๐ฆ.
From June 9th-30th, join instructor & author Sarah Read during this 3-week course to learn how to make your settings come to LIFE.
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๐ฅ Props to George Cooper for creating this epic mood in Fanal Forest, Madeira.
7 Dark Speculative Fiction Books
Have you read any of these books that confront the shadows of the human mind?
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Did you know weโre a ๐ก๐ข๐ก๐ฃ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐๐ง?
Our mission is to support anyone in the world who wants to read and write dark speculative fiction.
That means building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive community AND helping fund the education of disadvantaged students.
This also means that everything is tax-deductibleโnot only our donations, but also our magazine subscriptions, books, and classes.
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Want to bring elements of ๐ง๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ ๐ into your fiction, poetry, and prose?
Want to bring elements of ๐ง๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ ๐ into your fiction, poetry, and prose?
In this 7-week online course with Cynthia Pelayo, weโll talk about true crime and how itโs been covered in works of fiction and poetry, as well as methods of applying true crime cases to your writing.
Weโll also cover sensitivity, ethics, and morality, along with adaptation or exploration of real true crime cases.
By the end of the course, youโll have a short story draft, four poems, or research material for a larger project that incorporates elements of true crime.
Class starts April 1st!
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Writers often ONLY focus on sight & sound, but there's a whole world of sensation out there to write about!
During โ๐ฆ๐ต๐ผ๐ ๐๐ผ๐ปโ๐ ๐ง๐ฒ๐น๐น: ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฑ ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐โ
โa 3-week online class with Christina Bagni starting April 2ndโ you can learn how to harness sound, taste, touch, and smell to enhance not only your description writing, but your writing as a whole.
Action scenes, horrific frights, romantic moments, and even run-of-the-mill dialogue will benefit, bringing your fiction from โthis is kind of boring, but Iโm not sure how to fix itโ to โI canโt stop readingโ page-turner!
Beyond the 5 senses, weโll also explore some more bonus senses we often forget we have. Incorporating these will further โspice upโ your writing and help you avoid repetitive descriptors.
With lots of examples and opportunities to practice and share your work, youโll not only see your improvement, but smell, touch, hear, and taste it, too!
This online class starts on Tuesday, April 2nd so ๐ฆ๐๐๐ก ๐จ๐ฃ ๐ก๐ข๐ช โก๏ธ https://bit.ly/3uSZIDD
Breaking into Pro Magazines
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If you want to improve your submission game as a writer, take her online class โ๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ธ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ผ ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ด๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐โ!
Spots are limitedโ๐ฅ๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ง๐๐ฅ here:
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Single session on Thursday, March 7, 2024 at 4pm-5:30pm Pacific
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Online
๐ช๐๐๐ง ๐ฌ๐ข๐จโ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ฅ๐ก:
Magazine editor Mercdes M. Yardley will give you step-by-step information on how to publish in magazines.
Youโll learn everything youโll need to know about the submission process, including finding submission information, writing queries, and learning professional etiquette.
๐๐๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ง๐๐ ๐๐ก๐ฆ๐ง๐ฅ๐จ๐๐ง๐ข๐ฅ:
Mercedes M. Yardley is a two-time Bram Stoker Award winner who lives in Las Vegas. She is the author of Darling, the Stabby Award-winning Apocalyptic Montessa and Nuclear Lulu: A Tale of Atomic Love, Pretty Little Dead Girls, Love is a Crematorium, and Nameless. Mercedes is the senior fiction editor of Gamut Magazine, a member of the SFWA, ANWA, Brothers Grimm Society of North America, and serves within the HWA.
Gamut Magazine Submission Window Opens January 1st, 2024
Hereโs your chanceโstart 2024 with a submission to Gamut Magazine! ๐
๐ Our next submission window for fiction (both original and reprint) opens on Monday, January 1st, 12:01 AM CTโso mark your calendars!
Weโre also currently accepting non-fiction and poetry on an ongoing basis.
See all of our submission guidelines โก๏ธ https://bit.ly/45Z4v3H
