After a politically tumultuous 2016, Jon seeks solace in the fantasy worlds of Beth Cato and V.E. Schwab.
Read moreWomen Writing Women: Fighting Pre-Inauguration Blues with Beth Cato and V.E. Schwab
Beth Cato and V.E. Schwab
2017 Tuesday Craft Talks at College Hill Library, Westminster
Join Fiction Unbound writers at the Westminster Public Library on the second Tuesday of each month for writing and craft talks.
Each month we'll write for 45 minutes and then participate in a themed discussion on writing-related topics. All short story writers and novelists are welcome.
2017 Dates:
January 10 — Time and scene with Theodore McCombs
February 21 — “How to Write an Argument” with C.S. Peterson
March 14 — Craft talk with Mark Springer
April 11 — “Getting to Know Your Characters” with Lisa Kreutz Mahoney
May 9 — Craft talk with Jon Horwitz-White
Details:
6-7:30 p.m., Rm L107 College Hill Library
3705 W 112th Ave
Westminster, CO 80031
www.westminsterlibrary.org
Against the Current: Adventures in Streaming TV
The monstrous women of Stranger Things and Penny Dreadful
Docility and Rage: Exploring Performance and Blackness in "The Ballad of Black Tom"
Is the world ready to say goodbye to the docile black man trope?
Read moreCross-Cultural Fables: A Field Report from Bhutan
Lisa Mahoney looks for common themes in Bhutanese folktales and finds... the phallus town.
Read moreDenver Comic Con 2016: Enthusiastic Cosplayers and Nervous Writers
The ambitious cosplay of devoted fans, contrasted to the quiet insecurities of blockbuster writers.
Read moreDystopia, Cacotopia, or Cock-a-topia? The Experts Discuss.
Panelists left to right: Claire Vaye Watkins, Alexander Lumans, Thao Le and Mark Springer.
Panelists at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop's LitFest '16 debate “The Resurrection of Dystopian Lit,” and The Unbound Writers speculate.
Read moreSublime Scale in Cixin Liu’s "The Three-Body Problem"
An ambitious masterpiece of Chinese science fiction, reviewed.
Read moreGenrequeer
Speculative fiction’s disruptive potential, and an Unbound dispatch from #AWP16
Read moreTime Travel & Fractured Selves: Kindred and The River of No Return
Time travel novels Kindred and The River of No Return question how the evolving ethics of society shape our sense of self.
Read moreRevolt 1680/2180: Past as Prologue
"Revolt 1680/2180" is on view at the Denver Art Museum until May 1, 2016. Installation view of Revolt 1680/2180: Virgil Ortiz, © Virgil Ortiz.
In "Revolt 1680/2180," an exhibition at the Denver Art Museum, artist Virgil Ortiz explores a post-apocalyptic world informed by the Pueblo Rebellion of 1680, where the future echoes the past.
Read moreCorruption & Control: Naomi Novik's Uprooted
Naomi Novik's Uprooted
Questions of corruption and its ability to change and control us take center stage in Naomi Novik's latest, Uprooted, which reminds us how easy it can be to forget to see the (evil) forest for the (evil) trees.
Read moreChildbirth Gothic: BELOVED, ALIEN, and ROE v. WADE
How the abortion debates of the 20th century delivered a new Gothic aesthetic
Read moreMarisha Pessl’s NIGHT FILM, Ann Radcliffe’s THE ITALIAN, and the Legacy of the Gothic Romance
How does the modern Gothic novel stack up against 1797's finest? Fiction Unbound uncovers some dark secrets.
Read moreThe Origamist: César Aira’s Folded Fictions
The Musical Brain, a new collection by Argentine avant-gardist César Aira, reviewed. With monkeys.
Read moreRevive the Grendel’s-Mother/Female-Warrior/Mother Archetype, Please!
After reading Sarah Boxer's article "Why are all the Cartoon Mothers Dead?" in The Atlantic, Fiction Unbound urges authors of speculative fiction to break the pattern of orphans and buddy-buddy fathers. Bring on the power moms!
Read moreSpeculative Slavery: Two PYMs and an Irritating Hologram
Illustration for The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, A.D. McCormick (1898).
A look at how slavery haunts the speculative imagination, from Mat Johnson's Pym to Star Trek: Voyager's holographic Doctor.
Read moreLove and Rockets: Simon Pegg Blows up the Internet
The Internet thinks Simon Pegg is worried science fiction and genre stories are responsible for the dumbing down of society. But is he really? Fiction Unbound thinks not.
Read moreThe PEN/Hebdo Protest, and What Speculative Literature Has To Say About It
The roiling debate over PEN's decision to honor Charlie Hebdo, with some commentary on free self-expression from speculative classics.
Read moreThe Power to Choose: Neil Gaiman's The Sleeper & The Spindle
Neil Gaiman dreams up a new version of the classic Sleeping Beauty story in his The Sleeper and the Spindle, illustrated by Chris Riddell.
The Sleeper & the Spindle is a richly illustrated modern fairy tale that blends the stories of Sleeping Beauty and Snow White into an almost unrecognizable retelling. Neil Gaiman has tackled the subject of sleeping and dreams before, but what he hasn’t done previously, is concoct a fairy tale retelling that speaks directly to children as much as adults, with veiled Grimm-like warnings about the trouble with misbehaving. In this retelling, though, the ones misbehaving are the elders.