A Fan-Operated Science Fiction and Fantasy Literary and Filk Convention in the Dallas/Fort Worth Area

FenCon 2011 Writers Workshop

featuring Lou Anders

The 2011 FenCon Writers Workshop is full. Thank you for making this year's workshop such a success.

FenCon and the Dallas Future Society are happy to announce that our seventh annual Writers Workshop will be hosted by Lou Anders. We are thrilled to welcome him as our Special Guest instructor for 2011.

The Workshop will be an intense series of sessions held in conjunction with FenCon VIII/DeepSouthCon 49. It will feature seminars, expert critique of your submission, and group review sessions. All of it will be personally supervised by professional editor and writer Lou Anders.

The focus of this year's Writer's Workshop will be on crafting novel openings. The Workshop will also include two mini-seminar sessions on "The Business of Being a Professional Writer" and "How Screenwriting Formula can apply to Narrative Story Structure in Novels".

Additional details:

• Writer's Workshop memberships went on sale on February 18, 2011.
• This year's Writer's Workshop is limited to 20 participants.
• Writer's Workshop memberships sold out on June 3, 2011.
• Each participant must be a paid attending member of FenCon. Either a full Regular Membership or Friend of the Fen Membership meets this requirement. See the membership page for details
• There is a $40 fee for participating in the Workshop in addition to the FenCon membership fee.

• Each participant must submit an electronic manuscript consisting of the first 5-10 pages of their novel. Deadline for submission will be determined at a later date.
• Each participant must submit an electronic critique for each of the other participant's submissions no later than the first day of the Workshop.
• Each participant will have access to a private online forum where they can ask questions, interact with each other prior to the workshop, and post their submissions and critiques.
• The submission deadline, manuscript format, workshop schedule and other details will be provided later in the online forum.

If you have any questions or comments about this workshop, please e-mail workshop@fencon.org.

Last updated 27 September 2011