Ann VanderMeer

Our summer workshops with the Clarion Instructors draws to a close with the double-bill of spouses and editors Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer. Ann is a Hugo-award winning editor and publisher who contributed not only to a number of esteemed print publications, but is also a consulting fiction editor for Tor.com. Jeff is also an book reviewer and an author – recent projects by the a three-time World Fantasy Award winner include Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction, the world’s first full-color, image-based writing guide, and the first installment in his Southern Reach novel trilogy (Annihilation).

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Meet six sci-fi/fantasy authors as they share their worlds!

About the Authors! Karen Lord has been a physics teacher, a diplomat, a part-time soldier, and an academic at various times and in various countries. She is now a writer and research consultant in Barbados. Her debut novel, Redemption in indigo, won the Frank Collymore Literary Award, the William L. Crawford Award, and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature, and was nominated for the 2011 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. Robert V. S. Redick is the author of The Chathrand Voyage series: The Red Wolf Conspiracy,one of SFX magazine’s top ten science fiction and fantasy releases of 2008; The Ruling Sea,Fantasy Book Critic’s number two fantasy of 2009; and The River of Shadows, a Locus Recommended Read in 2011. A former international development researcher, Redick worked most recently for the antipoverty organization Oxfam. He lives in western Massachusetts. Will Hindmarch is a Chicago-based freelance writer and designer with numerous professional credits as author, developer, producer, and graphic designer on games, books, and magazines, some of them electronic. Will’s writing has appeared in The Escapist, Atlanta magazine, Geek Monthly, Everywhere and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. He was a judge for the MacArthur Foundation’s Digital Media and Learning competition in 2007, 2010, and 2011. He is an instructor at Wofford College’s Shared Worlds writing and world-building camp. He co-produces the live-lit storytelling show, Story Club South Side, too. Nathan Ballingrud was born in Massachusetts but has spent most of his life in the South. He's worked as a bartender in New Orleans and a cook on offshore oil rigs. His story "The Monsters of Heaven" won the inaugural Shirley Jackson Award. He lives in Asheville, NC, with his daughter. For the past 25 years, Hugo Award winner Ann VanderMeer and World Fantasy Award winner Jeff VanderMeer have been traveling into the past to bring back incredible stories for generations of readers. Their recent award-winning The weird: A Compendium of Strange & Dark Stories (Corvus, UK) covered 100 years of Weird fiction in a single massive 750,000-word, 1,200-page volume. The VanderMeers have also edited such iconic compilations as Steampunk and The New Weird, both considered definitive for those subgenres. Other recent books include The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities and The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals. This “literary power couple” (Boing Boing) has been profiled on national NPR, the Weather Channel, Wired.com, and the New York Times’ book blog. Together or separately, they have been keynote speakers around the world, including at MIT, the Library of Congress, and Utopiales. They also have been brought in to conduct creativity workshops for the likes of Blizzard Entertainment (World of Warcraft) and help run Wofford College’s Shared Worlds, a unique SF/Fantasy teen writing camp. Ann served as editor-in-chief of Weird Tales for five years and is an acquiring editor for Tor.com. Jeff’s most recent novels, The Southern Reach series, were acquired by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and optioned for film by Paramount Pictures. He writes book reviews for the Guardian, Los Angeles Times, New York Times Book Review, and many others. They live in Tallahassee, Florida, with four cats and ten thousand books.

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Every year for the past half-decade, young writers ages 13 to 17 have come from as far away as Japan, Canada, Germany and France to the Shared Worlds Science Fiction and Fantasy camp in South Carolina, to work with professional writers on creating the students’ own fantasy worlds and developing stories set in those worlds. Now, an international group of guest writers who are instructors at Shared Worlds are coming to Malaprop’s for a Fantasy and Science Fiction extravaganza featuring short readings, amusing anecdotes, information about the camp, and much more! Shared Worlds founder and co-director Jeremy L.C. Jones will host the event and will be joined by writers Nathan Ballingrud, Tobias Buckell, Will Hindmarch, Karin Lowachee, Naomi Novik, Ann VanderMeer, and Jeff VanderMeer. Nathan Ballingrud:

Tobias Buckell: Caribbean-born author Tobias Buckell currently lives in Ohio. He has written a New York Times bestselling Halo novel and several critically acclaimed science fiction novels, including Crystal Rain and his latest release, Arctic Rising.

Will Hindmarch: Chicago resident Will Hindmarch is a highly respected game creator who has worked for, among others, White Wolf and Green Ronin. Hindmarch has also published fiction and poetry.

Karin Lowachee: Born in South America, Karin Lowachee grew up in Canada and worked in the Arctic. Her first novel, Warchild, won the 2001 Warner Aspect First Novel Contest. She has been a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award and won the Prix Aurora Award. Orbit Books published her latest, The Gaslight Dogs.

Naomi Novik: A New York resident, Naomi Novik is the author of the bestselling Temeraire dragon fantasy series, optioned by Peter Jackson. She has won the John W. Campbell Award and the Compton Crook Award. Her short fiction has appeared in several anthologies.

Ann VanderMeer: For five years Ann VanderMeer served as editor-in-chief of Weird Tales magazine, winning a Hugo Award for her efforts. In addition, she has edited ten anthologies over the past four years, including Best American Fantasy, The New weird, Steampunk, Steampunk Reloaded, The weird, and The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities.

Jeff VanderMeer: Critically acclaimed writer Jeff VanderMeer has won the World Fantasy Award twice, once for his fiction and once for his editing. He has also been a finalist for every major award in the science fiction and fantasy fields. His latest novel is Finch, latest anthology is The weird, and latest nonfiction book is THE STEAMPUNK BIBLE. He also writes reviews for the New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, and the Guardian. He is the co-director of the unique Shared Worlds teen science fiction and fantasy writing camp.

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