Wired.com presents the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello and welcome to episode 134 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Today on the show we'll be discussing writing workshops and whether or not you should attend

one and I'm joined by three guests.

So first up we've got our producer John Joseph Adams. He's the

editor of Late Speed and Nightmare magazines and also the series editor of Best American

Science Fiction and Fantasy. He's also edited many anthologies, including the recent books The End is Now. and Good to be here. Then next up we've got Jean Kavellos, founder of the Odyssey Writers Workshop.

She also edited the Abyss line of psychological horror novels for Bantam Doubledadell,

and is the author of several novels set in the Babylon Five Universe, as well as the non-fiction books The Science of Star Wars and The Science of the X-files.

So Jean, welcome to the show.

Thanks, I love being here. Thank you.

And also joining us today is Julie Dreadful, founder of the online Speculative Fiction Workshop The Brainery.

She holds a PhD in Literature in Creative Writing from the University of Southern California, and is an associate editor at

Non Binary Review and's Unbound Octavo.

Her short story Mooncakes was recently nominated for a Pushcart prize.

So Jillie, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much.

All right, and so we're going to be talking about creative writing workshops.

And the writing workshops that are probably familiar

to most people are the ones that you

would take in college. So John, just tell us what sort of experiences did you have

with writing workshops in college? Well you know I went to the University of

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