SLF Mentorship, Round 2
This session's mentors include: Leah Cutter, Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, Jenn Reese, Ben Rosenblum, and John Scalzi. Deadline for apps: July 25th, 2006.
The Speculative Literature Foundation (SLF) announces the second session of its mentorship program. The program will take place August 1 through October 31, 2006. Participants will be able to gain valuable advice in the areas of business and craft from accomplished professional writers willing to share their experience. They
will not be critiquing mentee work, but will be talking about the nuts and bolts
of writing.
This session's mentors include Leah Cutter, Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, Jenn Reese, Ben Rosenbaum, and John Scalzi.
Leah R Cutter is the author of three historical fantasy novels as well as several fantasy, science fiction and horror short stories. Her most recent novel is The Jaguar and the Wolf (Roc 2005). She's lived all over the world, including Hungary and Taiwan, and now resides in Seattle, WA with her cat and many books. She supports herself and her writing habit by doing technical writing for a California-based software company. Her website appears at http://www.leahcutter.com.
Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu 's first novel, Zahrah the Windseeker, was published in 2005 by Houghton Mifflin. It will be published in Nigeria in 2007 by Kachifo Ltd. Her second novel, Ejii the Shadow Speaker, will be published by Hyperion Books for Children in 2007. Her short story, The Chaos Magician's Mega Chemistry Set will be published in Space and Time Magazine's 100th issue in 2006. Nnedi is currently finishing her PhD in English at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is also a graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop (2001).
Jenn Reese lives in Los Angeles, where she studies martial arts, plays strategy games, and sits in traffic. She's a 1999 Clarion workshop survivor and her stories have appeared in Polyphony, Flytrap, and various DAW anthologies, as well as online at Strange Horizons and Lone Star Stories. Her first novel, Jade Tiger, is forthcoming from Juno Books. Her website appears at www.jennreese.com.
Ben Rosenbaum has been a finalist for the Nebula, Hugo, and Sturgeon awards. His stories have appeared in Asimov's, F&t;SF, Harper's, Nature, McSweeney's, YBSF, YBFH, and other publications.
John Scalzi is the author of 10 books, including the Hugo-nominated Old Man's War and its sequel The Ghost Brigades, the astronomy handbook The Rough Guide to the Universe , and the best-selling Book of the Dumb humor series. His work has also appeared in various newspapers and magazines, including the Washington Post , the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Dayton Daily News, Jungle magazine, the Official US PlayStation Magazine and others. Scalzi Consulting, his writing/editing shop, consults for online and financial institutions such as AOL, Network Solutions, US Trust and Oppenheimer Funds. He enjoys pie.
A maximum of 25 applicants will be accepted, as each of the
five mentors will receive five mentees. If you are accepted, you will be asked for a $15-$30 fee for participation in the three month
program. Fees go directly to supporting other SLF programs,
such as the travel and older writers' grants.
To apply, send a one-page bio and personal statement that includes an assessment of your writing experience and what you would like to get from a mentorship as an attached Word .doc or .rtf (Rich Text Format) file to mentorship@speclit.org. Indicate if you have a preference for a particular mentor (preferences are not guaranteed, however).
Applications are due by midnight, July 25th, 2006
For more information, visit the mentorship website at http://www.speculativeliterature.org/Programs/Mentorship.php or email PR contact Ashley Gronek at press@speculativeliterature.org
