Alpha Workshop For Teens

September 28th 2004 at 6:01 pm

I’ve been waiting to see a formal announcement on their webpage, and it’s up at the Alpha webpage now, but I’m going to be one of their resident authors at this 9 day workshop in Pittsburgh for young writers, aged 14-19.

Here are the details:

The ALPHA SF/F/H Workshop for Young Writers (ages 14 - 19) will be held at the University of Pittsburgh’s Greensburg Campus July 6 - 15, 2005 in conjunction with Pittsburgh’s science fiction convention, Confluence, July 15 - 17th.

The ten-day workshop includes private, air-conditioned dormitory rooms, meals (dinner Wednesday the 6th through lunch Friday, the 15rd ), Confluence membership, required reading material and local transportation. Need-based scholarships are available.

Required: a SF/F/H genre story, 2000 to 6000 words long to be submitted electronically to story-submit@spellcaster.org. Deadline for completing the online application and story submission is March 31. Early application is advisable for handicapped and foreign students.
• Critiques of the students’ submission stories and the new stories written at Alpha
• Public readings, for both students and professional authors
• Two-day residencies by four professional authors
• Tamora Pierce, New York author of over twenty, young adult, fantasy novels, including Shatterglass and Cold Fire
• Wen Spencer, Winner of the 2003 John W. Campbell award for best new author
• Tobias Buckell, 2002 John W. Campbell Award Nominee. He was also a 1999 Writers of the Future 1st prize winner and a graduate of Clarion ‘99.
• TBA

Some of our past speakers include Harry Turtledove, William Tenn, Lawrence C. Connolly, Timons Esaias, Bruce Holland Rogers, Mike Arnzen, Leslie What, Davd Barr Kirtley Wen Spencer, Eric Davin, and Tamora Pierce.

Alpha students will attend Confluence, Pittsburgh’s annual, literature-based, science fiction conference, held at the Sheraton Four Points in Pittsburgh, PA, July 15–17, 2005. At Confluence workshop attendees will be joined by hundreds of fans, and approximately forty authors, editors, musicians, scientists, agents and artists.

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