Readings at Norwescon 34

Join current and alumni members of the Fairwood Writers at their readings at Norwescon 34. Individual readings are up to 30 minutes long.


Brenda Cooper reads Mayan December
Friday, noon in Cascade 3

Darragh Metzger reads The Strawberry Roan
Friday, 4pm in Cascade 3

J A Pitts reads Honeyed Words
Friday, 10pm in Cascade 3

Erin Tidwell, Renee Stern, and other authors published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies magazine
Saturday, 7pm in the Salon (outside Maxi's Lounge in the hotel tower)

Spencer Ellsworth reads The Ifrit's Trial
Saturday, 10pm in Cascade 3

Renee Stern reads A Mother's Choice
Sunday, 10am in Cascade 3

Kim Ritchie reads Triple Time
Sunday, 11am in Cascade 3

Rhiannon Held reads Bloodtech
Sunday, 1:30pm in Cascade 3

You're Invited! Writers' Social at Norwescon

If you're coming to Norwescon, stop by our party! The Fairwood Writers will host a social Saturday afternoon for workshop participants and anyone interesting in the workshop or who just wants to talk about writing. Join us for conversation, schmoozing, food and drinks at:

Saturday, April 23
1:30-3:30pm
Presidential Suite
(room 1360 in the hotel tower)

Workshop Update

We have completed scheduling of all the manuscripts submitted to the Fairwood Writers Workshop for Norwescon 34.

Later this week or sometime next week, we will be sending panel schedules to our writers, schedules and manuscripts to writers in the Round Robin sessions, and schedules and manuscripts to our professional volunteers.

Along with schedules and manuscripts, each writer and volunteer will receive a copy of our workshop manual. Writers and volunteers who are new to the workshop will find information about how workshop sessions are run, what to expect from a critique, and what to bring to a session. In addition, the workshop manual includes a short bio for each writer whose work will be read in the workshop this year.

Workshop Update

The late deadline for submissions to our Writers Workshop at Norwescon passed at midnight on New Years Eve.  We did minimal advertising for the workshop this year but still have a bumper crop of submissions: 35 in total. Most actually arrived by the priority deadline on December 19.  This year, we have a record 17 novel excerpts.  Submissions are about evenly split between fantasy and SF, with a handful of horror manuscripts.

Over the next week or so, we will be assigning 1 Fairwood group member as a panel moderator and critiquer, and 3 professional volunteers as critiquers. We'll sit down with the head of programming in a few weeks to schedule each session into a room and timeslot.

If you submitted a manuscript for the first time, congratulations! It takes courage to share your work with others and ask for critique.