The T Party was well represented at Orbital 2008, this year's Eastercon, with many members attending over the four days of the con and long-standing members Gary Couzens and Martin Owton serving on lively panels discussing The UK Short Fiction Market and Coping With Rejection respectively.
Perhaps the highlight, however, was the well-received workshop session hosted by The T Party on the last day of the convention. Participants were pleased with the in-depth critiques and feedback they received: "the workshop alone was worth this price of the con," said one, while another wrote that it "was my reason for going to the con: I was very glad I went and it was a sight more useful than it was dispiriting."
A number of the attendees have since asked to join the ranks of The T Party ... and plans are already in motion for another open workshop at LX2009 in Bradford. Book now!
The T-Party will be running a half-day writers' workshop at this year's Eastercon on Monday 24th March 2008. We'll be providing experienced critiquers to operate in pairs with small groups of submitting writers -- including two agented writers, a BFS Award winning editor and, subject to other commitments, double World Fantasy Award winner Bruce Holland Rogers.
Up to 16 writers will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis and matched (as far as possible) with experienced writers in their genre. Writers should be aware that the material will be shared with other attending writers, and that it will be critiqued in scrupulous detail with an eye to improvement.
Material submitted for critiquing can be the opening of a novel, or a complete short story, and should fall within the broad genres of science fiction, fantasy or horror. Stories should be formatted as rich text files of up to 5,000 words and emailed to co-ordinator Martin Owton using the subject line "Eastercon workshop".
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