Viable Paradise
| Viable Paradise | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Speculative fiction |
| Begins | Autumn |
| Ends | One week |
| Frequency | Annual |
| Location(s) | Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Inaugurated | 1997 |
| Website | viableparadise |
Viable Paradise is an annual one-week residential writing workshop held each autumn on the island of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts and is focused on speculative fiction.[1]
The workshop began in 1997, as part of a science fiction convention presented by the Martha's Vineyard Science Fiction Association. After 1998, the convention was discontinued, but the workshop continued.
Present and past instructors include: Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, James D. Macdonald, Debra Doyle, Steven Gould, Laura J. Mixon, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Elizabeth Moon, Maureen McHugh, James Patrick Kelly, Elizabeth Bear, Cory Doctorow, John Scalzi, Sherwood Smith, Steven Brust, Daryl Gregory, and Scott Lynch.
Past students include authors , , , N. K. Jemisin, Marko Kloos, Fonda Lee, Sandra McDonald, Paul Melko, David Moles, Margaret Ronald, Greg van Eekhout, and Fran Wilde; and podcast editors and authors Serah Eley and Mur Lafferty.
References[]
- ^ "List of former V.P. students". Zanzjan.net.
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