About us
Welcome to EBSFFW! The group is open to anyone 18 years old or older who is writing in the genre or who enjoys it enough to read other people's writing and provide serious and supportive critique. What kind of writing? Screenplays, novels, short stories, YA...you name it. We share our writing before the monthly critique meeting, so the meeting itself is straight-up discussion. And our members are successful! You can also browse some of our publications.
Interested in submitting? The first step is coming to a meeting! We want to make sure you're familiar with EBSFFW's style of critique and that you're a real, live human before we accept manuscripts to send on to our members. We don't have too many rules about what you can submit, but we do offer short fiction and novel critiques at different times. Here are the full submission guidelines:
Submission Guidelines
Have you come to a meeting and are ready to submit? After reading those guidelines above email your work to admin@ our domain, which is ebsffw.org. Our admin team will fit your shorter fiction or excerpts (<7,000 words) into the critique queue, and you have to submit once to our regular monthly session before we'll schedule a critique of your larger work (>7,000 words).
Lately, we've had a waitlist for critiques - you can see how far ahead we are scheduling them here:
Critique Queue
Finally, just how do we critique work at EBSFFW? Take the time to look over our Rules of Engagement:
Rules of Engagement
It's not that complicated, we promise. Any questions left? Just send one of the organizers a message. We are listed right below this box. Or come to one of our Craft Klatsches! Those are just for casual talk about all our writing careers.
Upcoming events
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Novel Review of "The Sacrifice of Vows" by Philip Thorne
·OnlineOnlineJoin us for a novel critique of Philip Thorne’s fantasy novel, The Sacrifice of Vows! The novel is 83,000 words. To join one of our novel critiques, you must have already attended at least one of our monthly critique sessions.
Philip’s blurb for the book:
Twice tested for a magical affinity, Caelum had resigned himself to a simple life, grateful that his wife possessed enough magic to become a baker. But when a traveling Magister uncovers his rare, previously overlooked affinity, Caelum seizes the chance to attend the Collegium Arcanis and train for the profession of teleporter. There he enters a rigorously disciplined, militarized program where rune magic is broken into theory, repetition, and battlefield application— and students are trained as future assets of the realm.
At the Collegium, the formidable Princess Seliora takes an interest in him, exposing Caelum to the suffocating expectations of bloodline and marriages forged for strategy, where everyone is expected to fulfill the role assigned to them. Targeted by her attention and drawn toward another student, Caelum learns that in this world, loyalty has its own cost.
In Book One of The Sacrifice of Vows, Caelum must lay the foundations of his craft, confront a world that demands violence, and endure the mounting cost of fidelity—for the true sacrifice is not breaking his vows, but everything he may lose by keeping them.
Content Warnings: violence, death.
To familiarize yourself with our critique style, please read our Rules of Engagement: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RKp0hisz-RSZgE1xF65DzUhOwRQZ6JqwAJ5fbAwrCwU/edit?usp=sharing
To attend, you’ll need a registered Zoom account. Enjoy Philip’s story and please join our discussion!
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