A Little Bird Tells Me...
...that this year would be a very good year to apply to the Viable Paradise Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop on Martha's Vineyard.
The deadline for applications is 15 June, but the instructors are reading MSS right now as they come in. (Notifications of acceptances all go out in a bunch at the end, but the selection process goes a lot more smoothly if we don't have to read the whole stack in 48 hours or so after the gates are closed.)
Good things about Viable Paradise (aside from lighthouses and weather-permitting jellyfish viewing and early morning walks along the beach): you'll have eight instructors, all in the same week, for 24 students; it's a one-week workshop (because while a month or six weeks can be prohibitively hard for a lot of people to get free, even folks with day jobs can usually hack and slash at their schedules enough to cut loose a single week); and the folks at VP don't just work with short story submissions -- we like working with novels, too.
The deadline for applications is 15 June, but the instructors are reading MSS right now as they come in. (Notifications of acceptances all go out in a bunch at the end, but the selection process goes a lot more smoothly if we don't have to read the whole stack in 48 hours or so after the gates are closed.)
Good things about Viable Paradise (aside from lighthouses and weather-permitting jellyfish viewing and early morning walks along the beach): you'll have eight instructors, all in the same week, for 24 students; it's a one-week workshop (because while a month or six weeks can be prohibitively hard for a lot of people to get free, even folks with day jobs can usually hack and slash at their schedules enough to cut loose a single week); and the folks at VP don't just work with short story submissions -- we like working with novels, too.