In this 4-week workshop, we will explore the fascinating genre of Speculative Fiction with an overview of the history and terminology, followed by a weekly dive into a different subgenre within Speculative Fiction. Students will be given generative writing prompts and readings by a vareity of speculative storytellers including Octavia Butler, Clarice Lispector, N.K. Jemisin, Sheree Renee Thomas, Suyi Davis and P. Djeli Clark.
By the end of the course, we'll be able to: distinguish elements separating literary and speculative fiction; differentiate between subgenres; understand how craft elements are utilized to accomplish different outcomes within this genre. In the final class, we'll workshop 1000-1500 words within a specific genre to discuss how well concepts have been utilized.
NOTE: No class on 10/31.
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Silk Jazmyne is a student of life who loves narrative in all its forms. She’s a book reviewer, essayist and fiction writer. Her work has appeared both online and in print at Black Girl Nerds, Straylight Magazine, The Gateway Review, Serendipity Literary Magazine, Midnight & Indigo, African Writer Magazine, and Ekphrastic Exhibition in Tandem: Back | Forth. She was born in New York and grew up all over as a Navy brat. She holds a MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Tampa and a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications from Florida International University. She loves the artistically strange and currently lives and works in Florida.
Silk is new to The Porch. Welcome!
