Sci-fi & Fantasy writing
Entry requirements: This course is open to students at all levels of experience and proficiency.
Learn how to write about enchanted amulets, many-tendriled floating brains, and talking plants. Use fiction to creatively expand on your research, or add depth to your tabletop setting.
In this seven-week course, you will work towards a short piece of fiction. We’ll start with three weeks of writing exercises, followed by three weeks dedicated to a single idea, and conclude with a feedback session where you will hear back from your fellow students. Afterwards, you’ll receive individual feedback on your work.
What you will learn
- How to write about mysterious technologies, novel creatures, and unexplored worlds
- How to thrill and engage readers
- How to turn an idea into your (first?) story
Join the course and create your own world in words.
About the teacher
Max Urai (1991) studied Film Studies and Creative Writing. His short stories and essays have been published in De Gids, the Nederlandse Boekengids, and on Samplekanon, rekto:verso, and De Reactor. He served on the evening editorial board of Perdu, was selected for the Paris residency of deBuren, and in 2023 he received the C.C.S. Crone stipend from the City of Utrecht. He is currently working with publishing house De Geus on a science fiction novel about shopping malls.
For more information about the teacher, check out www.maxurai.nl.
Course details
Class dates
This course will be held every week on the same day and time. If a lesson is missed due to a public holiday or other reasons (e.g. teacher illness, organizational reasons), the lesson will be made up at the end of the course. Please note that a course may be extended by a few weeks due to this. You can read more about this in our terms and conditions.
This course will be held every week on the same day and time. If a lesson is missed due to a public holiday or other reasons (e.g. teacher illness, organizational reasons), the lesson will be made up at the end of the course. Please note that a course may be extended by a few weeks due to this. You can read more about this in our terms and conditions.