Send Your Characters on a Road Trip with A.T. Greenblatt
Admission
- $75.00 - Supporting Tuition
- $57.00 - Helping Hands
Description
From pilgrimage tales to epics about journeys across the sea, we have been telling road trip stories for thousands of years. These stories promise adventure, but it’s also a way to show readers a world they haven’t explored.
It’s a perfect vehicle for science fiction, fantasy, or other speculative genre, but how do you tell a road trip story that feels fresh? How do you balance world-building, characters, and action while keeping up the pace? And how does the destination play into it if the journey is the most important part? In this class, we’ll talk about using this classic story structure in new and genre-bending ways.
Attendees will be asked to participate via chat, voice, and/or video.
This class meets online for one 90-minute session.
Meeting Dates:
October 6, 1-2:30 pm Pacific Time
No advance preparation is required.
About the Instructor:
A.T. Greenblatt is a Nebula Award winning writer and mechanical engineer. She lives in New York City where she's known to frequently subject her friends to various cooking and home brewing experiments. Her work has been nominated for a Hugo, Locus, and Sturgeon Award, has been in multiple Year's Best anthologies, and has appeared in Reactor, Uncanny, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Lightspeed, and Clarkesworld, as well as other fine publications. You can find her on Bluesky at @AtGreenblatt
This event will be held in Zoom. By registering for this class, you agree to follow the Clarion West Code of Conduct and Zoom policies.
Limited Free Seating:
We offer a percentage of seats in every class to People of the Global Majority (Asian, Black, African, Latina/o/x, Middle Eastern, Indigenous, Pacific Islander, and/or have been racialized as 'ethnic minorities') for free, regardless of financial need.
Eligible folks should complete this form to enter the lottery for free seats. If a seat is available, we will email you 7-10 days before the class begins. For more information, see our equity and inclusion policies.
Sliding Scale Pricing:
The Supporting Tuition rate is shown for each class or workshop for folks who can pay it. Paying the Supporting Tuition rate enables us to continue to pay our staff and instructors equitably, as well as support access to classes for others who may be in a different situation.
The Helping Hands rate is available to folks under more limited economic circumstances, no matter your background.
For more information, see our financial aid policies.
Our Refund Policy:
Clarion West will refund all class fees if the request is made 30 days before the class date. Refund requests made within 30 days of the class will be honored if we can fill the seat.
Any exceptions are subject to approval by our workshop staff.