What we’re about
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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•OnlineReview volume three of the Korlstun Quartet by Katherine Sturtevant
OnlinePlease join us to review volume three of Korlstun's Quartet by Katherine Sturtevant. The novel is around 77,000 words without footnotes or supplemental materials. About 85,000 words with everything. To join one of our novel critiques, you must have already attended at least one of our monthly critique sessions.
Here is the description:
KORLSTUN ENLIVENS is the third volume in the KORLSTUN QUARTET. (It is heavily foot-noted for those who haven’t read the previous volumes.) Korlstun is determined to prevent her own people, the Fazi, from using a magic-based weapon called air-fire to destroy the fleet of the Karfik clan. With her odd assortment of followers she races through the Hailstone Mountains, hoping to reach Melking’s Bay by the date of the attack. Meanwhile she tries to master her “difference” (a unique rage other Fazi don’t feel) and to access her magic, which seems to have its own ideas about when and how to show up. When they arrive at their destination, stopping the attack proves to be a tricky problem.
To familiarize yourself with our critique style, please read our Rules of Engagement: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RKp0hisz-RSZgE1xF65DzUhOwRQZ6JqwAJ5fbAwrCwU/
To attend, you’ll need a registered Zoom account. Please sign up now to participate in critiquing the novel and celebrating with Kit the completion of her series!5 attendees
Past events
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