What's in a Genre? is a workshop series on writing genre fiction. This series will feature workshops on scene-writing, world-building, characterization, and other topics with a focus on the challenges of writing within genre fiction.

• Genre Theory: Why we categorize fiction
• Aliens and Off-worlders: writing about other species
• It was a dark and stormy night: cliches in genre fiction
• Hard vs. Soft: technology and society in SF/F

If you have a topic you'd like to see, please email the Director.