Writing Fantastical Characters 6-Week Zoom Intensive with Ploi Pirapokin, Starts Thursday, May 22nd, 2025

Class Starts Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 The class will meet weekly via Zoom (Thursdays, 7PM ET - 9PM ET) and also have an online classroom in Wet Ink. Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us. Led by Ploi Pirapokin, who sits on the board for Khōréō Magazine, Hivemind: Global Speculative Fiction Magazine, and the Ragdale Foundation. Her work is featured in Tor.com, Pleiades, Ninth Letter, Sycamore Review, Gulf Stream Magazine, and The Art and Craft of Stories from Asia: A Writer's Guide and Anthology from Bloomsbury Academic. Ploi is a graduate of the Clarion Writers Workshop and the MFA in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University. Learn more about Ploi in our Meet the Teaching Artist series. Werewolves, parrots, and aliens—how to start? This six-week class is open to both genre and literary fiction writers who are curious about featuring non-human beings in their stories that subvert common cliches and stereotypes. How can we make our u