Writer to Writer
with Aliette de Bodard
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Summary
Course code: ADB2
30 mins to 1 hour mentoring session
For Foundation, Intermediate or Advanced Writers
Limited sessions available
Selective entry – we’ll offer places to writers who show promise
Dates
TBA May to June 2022
Venue
Online via zoom
Overview and Learning Outcomes
During a Writer to Writer session (30 mins to 1 hour) with the Visiting Writer you will:
- discuss your writing aspirations with an experienced writer in an encouraging environment
- obtain general advice from an experienced writer on your writing project
- obtain specific practical advice on aspects of the art and craft of writing, writing technique & your writing challenges
- obtain help on shaping your approach to your writing life
- understand what it takes to be a professional writer
Please note the one-on-one consultation is not a manuscript assessment.
Who should register?
- Foundation Writers — Early stage, promising writers without any publication history. This includes those who are writing for the first time or have never written with deadlines or structure before, or
- Intermediate Writers — Writers who have chosen to pursue writing as a full time or part time career with a serious, professional intent but who are not yet published with a mainstream or recognised independent publisher.
- Advanced Writers — Writers who have published at least one book with a mainstream or recognised independent publisher, and/or published in at least one literary journal and/or anthology
Participants will be selected by the Visiting Writer with assistance from the Asia Creative Writing programme. A waiting list will be maintained.
Registration and Pricing
Course Prerequisites
To sign up, please register at the link above with the following documents:
- A 500 word writing sample
- A short summary of your writing project of ~100 words
- A short biography of ~100 words
Course Fees
- For each 30 min to 1 hour session:
- $25 for adults
- $10 for students, unemployed, low income migrant workers
- Free for undergraduates and postgraduate students from Singapore tertiary institutions
- Non refundable if cancellation 2 weeks or less before course starts
- Please email us if financial assistance is needed
About Aliette de Bodard
Aliette de Bodard lives and works in Paris. She has won three Nebula Awards, an Ignyte Award, a Locus Award, a British Fantasy Award and four British Science Fiction Association Awards. She was a double Hugo finalist for 2019 (Best Series and Best Novella).
Her most recent book is Fireheart Tiger (Tor.com), a sapphic romantic fantasy inspired by pre colonial Vietnam, where a diplomat princess must decide the fate of her country, and her own. She also wrote Seven of Infinities (Subterranean Press), a space opera where a sentient spaceship and an upright scholar join forces to investigate a murder, and find themselves falling for each other. Other books include Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders, (JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.), a fantasy of manners and murders set in an alternate 19th Century Vietnamese court.
Her space opera books include The Tea Master and the Detective (2018 Nebula Award winner, 2018 British Fantasy Award winner, 2019 Hugo Award finalist).
Her short story collection Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight is out from Subterranean Press.
Other Courses & Events with Aliette de Bodard
How to Write Speculative Fiction
In this four week online workshop series, award-winning writer Aliette de Bodard, will teach the fundamental building blocks of a speculative fiction story, how to harness your creativity and help you discover and define your writing process from first idea to completed draft of a speculative fiction story.