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.
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Novel Review: The Shifting
·OnlineOnlineWe'd love for you to join us in a constructive review of the first half of Viola's compelling novel, The Shifting, the first one in her YA cli-fi trilogy. The submission is about 50,000 words and the description of the novel is as follows:
In the City under the dome, AlmaLabs is a savior. Fifteen years ago, its scientists discovered almanite, a miracle material that can become anything the City needs: food, walls, robots, electricity. Beyond the dome, the deadly fog has swallowed the world. Inside, everyone is told they are the lucky ones.
Fourteen-year-old orphan Oliver has never believed in miracles. There are only mechanisms he doesn't understand yet, and almanite is the one he wants to crack. All he has left of his parents, who disappeared in the fog, is a small old robot Sensai. When a stranger's voice pours out of Sensai, calling from outside the dome, where no one should be alive, Oliver has a new question: what if his parents are alive too? The search for that voice leads him to ChameLeon, a faunaborg built from animal bones and machine parts. ChameLeon performs a real miracle. It dissolves almanite into dust and finds strange golden seeds hidden inside. And someone will do anything to keep that a secret.
Now Dr. Amarantha Wilde, the brilliant head of AlmaLabs, is hunting them. And the closer Oliver gets to the truth about the miracle that built his world, and about the parents who left him, the less he can trust anyone, even the robot that raised him.
Some truths can set a world free. Others can end it.
The submission will be made available to all RSVPers approximately 6 weeks before the session. We look forward to having a fabulous review!
Note:
- To participate in the novel review, you must have already attended one of our critique sessions.
- If you haven't been to a critique session in a while, you can review our Rules of Engagement at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RKp0hisz-RSZgE1xF65DzUhOwRQZ6JqwAJ5fbAwrCwU.
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