Hatrack River Writers Workshop Hosted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury • Introduction • Enter the Forum Write to Kathleen Dalton Woodbury Former Boot Campers Success Stories • Chris Todd Miller • Jessi Cole Jackson • Brian McClellan • Ty Franck • 2008 Bootcamp • S.D. Smith • John Brown • Brad Beaulieu • Jamie Ford • Judson Roberts • Danielle Friedman • Scott Andrews • Christine Amsden • Patricia Esden • Rick Novy • Aliette de Bodard • Alethea Kontis • Mary Robinette Kowal • Scott Roberts • Mette Harrison • Eric James Stone • James Maxey • Luc Reid • Douglas Cohen Links of Interest • OSC urges writers to look at this LA Times interview with mystery writer Robert Crais Says OSC: "Crais, one of my favorite writers, has come quite independently to many of the same conclusions I've reached - and which I've taught in my writing workshops for years. It's nice to have an independent source for the ideas! Besides, Crais is an outstanding writer who deserves to be listened to for his own sake." • Parker column: A writer teaches writing • Garrison Keillor's Excellent Advice about MFA Programs • Want a critique of your manuscript from a published author? Mette Ivie Harrison has been praised as one of the finest writers of fantasy and YA literature working today - and she has taught writing workshops with OSC • Bernard Cornwell shares OSC's emphasis on story, letting the author's voice take care of itself. (Thanks to Scott Roberts for pointing this out.) • Comments on Uncle Orson’s Literary Boot Camp • Hatrack Utility Belt • Tor Submissions Guidelines • Using invented language in speculative fiction

UPDATE - August 2003 - Luc Writes: "I heard this evening from the Writers of the Future contest that I've won second place in the most recent quarter for my novelette "Bottomless"; I'm absolutely thrilled. My writing got an enormous boost from Boot Camp."

Hatrack member Luc Reid recently heard from the Writers of the Future contest (www.writersofthefuture.com) that his story "A Ship That Bends," which was a finalist in the April-June 2002 contest period, had been accepted for inclusion in the annual Writers of the Future anthology. In addition to payment and publication, authors whose work appears in the anthology are flown to California for a five-day intensive writers' workshop led this year by Tim Powers (and at one point in the past led by Orson Scott Card).

Luc's story is about a Phoenecian girl who lives near the edge of the world, at an island that trades with the people who live on the bottom of the (flat) planet. She resolves to build a ship that will be able to sail to the bottom, something none of her people have yet been able to do, but must hide her aspiration from both the jealous Beneathsiders and her own countrymen, who would never let a woman lead such a voyage. "A Ship That Bends" is a rewrite of a story that was originally written and critiqued at Orson Scott Card's week-long Literary Boot Camp in the summer of 2001.