Writing the Weird at LitREactor, withJ.S Breukelaar

WRITING THE WEIRD RETURNS TO LITREACTOR, Sept.6

Byadmin August 25, 2022August 25, 2022

This is one of the courses that makes me love teaching as much as writing. My students routinely go on to publish stories workshopped here, which makes me happy.Magic realism, Gothic weird, bizarro, slipstream… let’s face it, what fiction, at its heart, isn’t weird AF? Here is a peak into what I mean. Plus, you’ll be supporting LitReactor, a family of writers that’s been the backbone of our community for more years than I can remember. Places filling fast.

Countdown to Weirdness

Byadmin July 4, 2014

By way of counting-down, I’m going to post a different image of weirdness every few days until blast off. Here cover art from Der Orchideengarten, arguably the world first fantasy mag launched in 1919, and which ran for 51 issues until 1921.

Writing the Weird is back again at LitReactor – see you there.

ByJSB February 23, 2016

Bring me your dreams and your nightmares, your broken bunnies and inflatable friends, your pocket universes and hero’s gurneys and sentence fragments and eldritch ellipses. I promise to make you uncomfortable. Still time to sign up.

Writing the Weird at LitReactor about to open

ByJSB January 8, 2015

Still some places left, but it sold out last time, so jump in while you can. Can’t wait to meet the whole class, read everyone’s work, and get into some writing.

New article up at LitReactor: Six Killer Death Scenes

ByJSB April 9, 2016April 9, 2016

in which I talk about Laird Barron, Don DeLillo, Shirley Jackson and others. Here is a taste but you can read more at LitReactor. Image courtesy of LitReactor. When my kids were little we had a family fun game called “Death Scenes.” We’d gather in the back yard or in the playing fields behind our…

Winter Haunts Workshop

ByJSB October 19, 2022October 19, 2022

I’ll be running a workshop called Writing Horror With Heart as part of Alex Davis’s Winter Haunts Event, on November 6, a day of panels, workshops and talks about ghosts and ghost stories and the supernatural. Hope to see you there!

Writing classes in Sydney at Centre for Continuing Education, University of Sydney

ByJSB March 21, 2018

Looking forward to this live workshop. Sydney’s f/sf writers: I know you’re there. Come hang out. Be with your people a couple hours a week for six weeks. It’ll be the making of you, promise. Do you harbor a love of the fantastic, whether science fiction, horror, weird crime, urban fantasy, steampunk, magic realism and…

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