links

Craft Podcasts, substacks, etc

• Between the Covers

• Brandon Sanderson’s College CW Course

• Counter Craft

• Debutiful

• Gabino’s Substack

• Lessons From the Screenplay

• No Failure, Only Practice

• Our Opinions Are Correct

• Stunning Sentences

• Sweater Weather

• The Frontlist

Residencies, Workshops, Grants

• 19 Writing Conferencesfor Emerging & Established Writers

• Banff Centre

• BOMB’s list of fellowships and residencies

• Bread Loaf

• Cave Canem (Black poets)

• Clarion & Clarion West (SFF)

• Community of Writers

• Disquiet

• Edward Albee Foundation

• Hedgebrook (women—trans inclusive)

• Iowa Summer Programs

• Kenyon

• Kundiman (Asian Americans)

• Macdowell

• Marble House Project (has family residency option)

• McCormack Writing Center — (formerly Tin House)

• Napa Valley

• Odyssey (Fantasy)

• Ontario Arts Council Grants

• Pen America Emerging Voices

• Periplus (BIPOC)

• Sewanee Writers’ Conference

• Toronto Arts Council Writers Program

• Under the Volcano

• Villa Lena (has family residency option)

• Writing the Other

• Yaddo

Articles & Interviews

• A Few Rules For Predicting The Future by Octavia E. Butler

• Beyond the Possible by Amanda Leduc

• “How to Unlearn Everything” by Alexander Chee

• Let’s Stop with the Realism Versus Science Fiction and Fantasy Debate by Lincoln Michel

• My Writing Education by George Saunders

• N.K. Jemisin’s Worldbuilding Exercise

• Paris Review Interviews

• Patricia C. Wrede Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions

• That Crafty Feeling by Zadie Smith

• “The Lone and Level Sands” by Vajra Chandrasekera

• Ted Chiang on Scifi v. Fantasy

• Seven Deadly Sins of Worldbuilding from Charlie Jane Anders

• Write from Your Obsessions by Kelly Link

Publishing Advice

• Before and After the Book Deal

• Key Book Publishing Paths

• Publishing Rodeo Podcast

• Publisher’s Marketplace

• Successful Query Examples

• Query Resource List