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 (3)
See all- Novella review of Moonlight by Thomas WhiteLink visible for attendees
Join us for a novel critique of Thomas White's sci-fi novella, Moonlight! The novella is 33,000 words. To join one of our novel critiques, you must have already attended at least one of our monthly critique sessions.
Here is the description of the novella:
Alexis de Gourges, astronaut of the Kingdom of Vespuccia, is the first human to step on the moon.
She’s also stranded.
The propellant leak that left her lander immobile was cruel fate. But the crash nearby, three days later, of a lander from the Aliyad Republic – the Vespuccians’ great rival in the nuclear standoff back on Earth – has to be more than a coincidence. The Aliyad aboard, Tolga, is evasive and acting suspicious, food and oxygen are running low, and the conflict on the ground is escalating fast. But if Alexis and Tolga can put aside their differences, they might have a chance to save not only themselves, but also their nations back home.
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. Enjoy Thomas's story and please join our discussion!
