From Fantasy to Reality: Crafting Impactful Speculative Fiction Zoom Seminar with Ploi Pirapokin, Sunday, May 4th, 2025

Seminar is Sunday, May 4th, 2025 This class will meet via Zoom, 10AM- 12PM Pacific / 1PM - 3PM Eastern 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. If you've ever wondered what it would be like to write a retelling of a fairytale but not sure how or have been told that your writing is too weird and unreal, come and meet writers just like yourself. In this two-hour seminar, we’ll be looking at non-naturalist elements and common tropes most associated with genre fiction. We’ll go over how point of view