Interstitial Fiction Genres class contains: Taking it bundled, with Interaction contains:
200 pages of text, including copious links Everything in the other class
6 hours of my video instruction 6 months interaction with Instructor
5 complete stories carefully critiqued
Discus Your published stories spotlighted
Newsletter
Guest videos scheduled
60.00 one time fee for lifetime access 350.00 for lifetime access, 6 months interaction
Interstitial Fiction falls in between the conventions of major genres such as the realism common currently in Literary and Mainstream Fiction and the expected tropes of Speculative. Books that might include realistic settings and characters in which strange events occur in subtle ways here and there have specific place in libraries and book stores. Some Interstitial Fiction resists all categorization altogether, though new styles are labeled from time to time and those narratives are absorbed into them. Magical Realism, New Wave Fabulism, Slipstream, Absurdism, The Irreal, The New Weird, Surrealism, Dada, Yarns, Quantum Fiction, Bizarro and others all exist in that in-between space. Fantastical elements occur, but they aren't SF/F or Horror.
A growing number of journals, anthologies, and book publishers call for these minor genres by name, and actively recruit writing that dismantles major and sometimes even the previously named minor genres. They actively court cross-genre fiction, genre blending, genre exploding work. Some pay, and some provide pristine reputation or a group of readers who enjoy something in common. Some publications are free for limitless numbers of people to read online at will, and others are elite print anthologies. Knowing the language of what they are looking for, and resonating deeply with the styles they label increases your chances of publication. And it keeps you from taking up editors' and judges' time by tying up your stories with them if they don't fit what they're looking for, which can seem mysterious if you aren't familiar as they are with the genres.
Classes will open in a few days in how to recognize, write, and submit a specific variety of Interstitial Genres. That label here refers to fiction that is not Literary or Mainstream Realism nor core traditional Speculative (Fantasy, SF, and Horror) but with elements of both -- if it is is possible to group the narratives under one or more of the elusive definitions given to the fiction that was falling between the cracks.
Beyond that exists fiction that is completely uncategorizable in any of the sub-genres. The classes, however, focus in great depth on specific types of writing including the history, major figures, cultural assumptions, implications about reality, techniques, with enough information linked to allow you to become a true connoisseur and interact with the various communities. If you take the classes, you maybe be able to look at old work or work throughout the rest of your life and be able to tell which labels it fits into for ease of submission to journals, publishers, panels, contests, etc.
The first class is for individuals to take on your own schedules, skipping around, getting as involved as you want in each type of narrative before writing your stories. Much of the teaching is video. It includes an overview of 5 genres that makes it easy to compare and contrast (considering these styles will always remain amorphous, by nature.) It takes you in depth as far as you want to go with everything you need all in one place, to keep as long as you want. You learn techniques, journals looking for each type of story, the history, community, examples, and are given suggested assignments. This is a 60.00. It does not include interaction with the Instructor, other than basic questions about class, nor feedback on assignments. Students are welcome to comment using Disqus and may therefore interact with each other there if desired, even commenting on stories, but that is neither required nor guaranteed.
A bundle will also be available for 350.00 in which you may send me 5 stories in these genres over 6 months interaction.
If you want to study how to write fiction that isn't bound by realism but you aren't interested writing about elves, wizards, space ships, vampires or werewolves, consider upcoming classes or individual coaching. If you write Interstitial Fiction and want manuscript editing, this is the place. If you want to be on the mailing list mini-newsletter about classes, and Interstitial Fiction, sign up Here.
200 pages of text, including copious links Everything in the other class
6 hours of my video instruction 6 months interaction with Instructor
5 complete stories carefully critiqued
Discus Your published stories spotlighted
Newsletter
Guest videos scheduled
60.00 one time fee for lifetime access 350.00 for lifetime access, 6 months interaction
Interstitial Fiction falls in between the conventions of major genres such as the realism common currently in Literary and Mainstream Fiction and the expected tropes of Speculative. Books that might include realistic settings and characters in which strange events occur in subtle ways here and there have specific place in libraries and book stores. Some Interstitial Fiction resists all categorization altogether, though new styles are labeled from time to time and those narratives are absorbed into them. Magical Realism, New Wave Fabulism, Slipstream, Absurdism, The Irreal, The New Weird, Surrealism, Dada, Yarns, Quantum Fiction, Bizarro and others all exist in that in-between space. Fantastical elements occur, but they aren't SF/F or Horror.
A growing number of journals, anthologies, and book publishers call for these minor genres by name, and actively recruit writing that dismantles major and sometimes even the previously named minor genres. They actively court cross-genre fiction, genre blending, genre exploding work. Some pay, and some provide pristine reputation or a group of readers who enjoy something in common. Some publications are free for limitless numbers of people to read online at will, and others are elite print anthologies. Knowing the language of what they are looking for, and resonating deeply with the styles they label increases your chances of publication. And it keeps you from taking up editors' and judges' time by tying up your stories with them if they don't fit what they're looking for, which can seem mysterious if you aren't familiar as they are with the genres.
Classes will open in a few days in how to recognize, write, and submit a specific variety of Interstitial Genres. That label here refers to fiction that is not Literary or Mainstream Realism nor core traditional Speculative (Fantasy, SF, and Horror) but with elements of both -- if it is is possible to group the narratives under one or more of the elusive definitions given to the fiction that was falling between the cracks.
Beyond that exists fiction that is completely uncategorizable in any of the sub-genres. The classes, however, focus in great depth on specific types of writing including the history, major figures, cultural assumptions, implications about reality, techniques, with enough information linked to allow you to become a true connoisseur and interact with the various communities. If you take the classes, you maybe be able to look at old work or work throughout the rest of your life and be able to tell which labels it fits into for ease of submission to journals, publishers, panels, contests, etc.
The first class is for individuals to take on your own schedules, skipping around, getting as involved as you want in each type of narrative before writing your stories. Much of the teaching is video. It includes an overview of 5 genres that makes it easy to compare and contrast (considering these styles will always remain amorphous, by nature.) It takes you in depth as far as you want to go with everything you need all in one place, to keep as long as you want. You learn techniques, journals looking for each type of story, the history, community, examples, and are given suggested assignments. This is a 60.00. It does not include interaction with the Instructor, other than basic questions about class, nor feedback on assignments. Students are welcome to comment using Disqus and may therefore interact with each other there if desired, even commenting on stories, but that is neither required nor guaranteed.
A bundle will also be available for 350.00 in which you may send me 5 stories in these genres over 6 months interaction.
If you want to study how to write fiction that isn't bound by realism but you aren't interested writing about elves, wizards, space ships, vampires or werewolves, consider upcoming classes or individual coaching. If you write Interstitial Fiction and want manuscript editing, this is the place. If you want to be on the mailing list mini-newsletter about classes, and Interstitial Fiction, sign up Here.