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@valerievaldes.bsky.social is an exceptional teacher and VP is a wonderful experience. Apply, apply, apply! (I know the world is hard right now, but if you feel like you are safe to travel, apply!)

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Viable Paradise was the best decision I made last year. Go apply!!!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I’m extremely honored to head back to the island!

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

This is one of my favorite things I've ever gotten to announce. I got so much out of my experience at Viable Paradise as a student. It is a real honor to get to come back as an instructor, more than a decade later. I'm looking forward to reading everyone's applications!

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

You should apply to Viable Paradise. And then you should let me go back under your name, wearing a complicated disguise— But really: VP was truly, truly transformative for me. One of the best weeks of my life. If you have any questions about applying, don’t hesitate to hit me up 🤍

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Apply! Viable Paradise is a truly life changing workshop. 💚

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

We are ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTED to welcome @byzantienne.bsky.social and @valerievaldes.bsky.social -- both Viable Paradise grads and both amazing -- to the workshop faculty for 2025! viableparadise.com/viable-parad... Applications are open through May 15.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

So excited for our workshop alumni who earned Nebula nominations this year: @wiswell.bsky.social @aimeeogdenwrites.com @jenniferhudak.bsky.social and @deuceofgears.bsky.social !! Congratulations! Best of all, they’re all in different categories so we don’t have to choose!

submitted 45 days ago • 3 comments

So excited to share this book on poetry magic with the world. It's truly a story from my heart, and one I've been working very hard on! Thank you @reactorsff.bsky.social for the feature!

submitted 73 days ago • 21 comments

My story "Celestial Migrations" is out today! It's about Lunar New Year, family, and the sacrifices parents make for their children. It also dares to ask: what if there were GIANT MANTA RAYS and they were IN SPACE and HUMANS COULD RIDE THEM

submitted 85 days ago • 2 comments

Congrats to @lauracranehill.bsky.social whose book "Wife Shaped Bodies" was just announced from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social I can't wait for 2026! Our first @viableparadise.bsky.social 2023 book announcement!!

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

My writing communities are busting with passionate, determined people writing great work, supporting each other and enduring. I am so, so proud and lucky to be in the company of such wonderful and inspiring folks. Related: check out @viableparadise.bsky.social ! Applications are open for 2025!

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

I've been teaching at Viable Paradise for a few years now, and met some amazing writers. Would they have gotten published without VP? Almost certainly! They were amazing! But finding a cohort of writers, spending an intense week on nothing but craft... that can be a huge boost

submitted 113 days ago • 1 comment

Applications are open! I fully credit the friends I made at VP with helping me level up my writing, not to mention a way better understanding of the publishing industry.

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

It’s not an exaggeration to say that VP2024 was life-changing for me. Faculty, staff, and my peers were all amazing, andI learned a tremendous amount about the craft and business of writing. If you’re thinking about it, apply!

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

I cannot state this strongly enough: Viable Paradise was one of the most wonderful experiences of my life. If you're thinking about applying and you have questions, please don't hesitate to let me know. I would love to talk to you about it!

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

I can't overstate how important this workshop was to my development as a writer.

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

Viable Paradise is the most awesome experience of my writing life. Great learning opportunity for writers.

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

viable paradise changed my life ~ if you're looking for a sign to apply, THIS IS IT 💚

submitted 115 days ago • 1 comment

Attending Viable Paradise remains one of the best decisions I've made. Do the thing, friends!

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

Not too many things can transform your writing life in the course of a single week, but Viable Paradise is absolutely one of them!

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

Ready to improve your writing and join the Viable Paradise community in 2025? The workshop application period is open now through May 15! viableparadise.com

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

Please read my @viableparadise.bsky.social friend’s newest piece out in @khoreo.bsky.social!

submitted 132 days ago • 1 comment

It’s been one month since I left on the ferry back to the mainland at the end of Viable Paradise. A heartfelt thank you to the instructors and staff of @viableparadise.bsky.social who make it the dynamic transformation that it is. #viableparadise #writing #scifi #fantasy

submitted 153 days ago • 6 comments

I'm finally unpacking from @viableparadise.bsky.social and thinking about Before & After. An empty beach on day 1 vs. a beach full of friends on day 8. A tree full of leaves succumbed to the season, ready to rest. A writer on "sabbatical"... I wonder what comes after?

submitted 181 days ago • 1 comment

Okay, so what was Viable Paradise, really? It's hard to explain but it was impactful on a social, craft, and spiritual level. Gonna try to unpack it for myself and folks interested in the workshop. First, hucking it out to Martha's Vineyard was a whole new thing. The final leg was in a tiny Cessna✈️

submitted 181 days ago • 2 comments

It will probably take me a while to process my thoughts, but I had an amazing time at @viableparadise.bsky.social last week!

submitted 181 days ago • 1 comment

Last year at @viableparadise.bsky.social I wrote a hellish little story about a couple who attend a music festival in the middle of the Mojave desert. That story will be included in Frontiers of Fright: A Southwestern Horror Anthology which is available for pre-order now! tinyurl.com/sp7wjty5

submitted 181 days ago • 1 comment

The next day, faculty and staff were conscious, but very little more.

submitted 181 days ago • 0 comments

Back from @viableparadise.bsky.social - not kidding when I say it was a transformative experience on the same level as graduating college, getting married, getting my first book deal. It was amazing and also this is me right now

submitted 182 days ago • 0 comments

My heartfelt thanks to everyone who enabled me to make it to Viable Paradise. I am back after a week of hard work doing the thing I love, filled with new ideas, learning, stories, friendships, and much, much gratitude. @viableparadise.bsky.social #iamwriting #SFF

submitted 182 days ago • 0 comments

Much to say about @viableparadise.bsky.social, but for now I just want to savor the seismic internal shift of finally allowing myself to be serious about fiction writing after all these years of feeling like I must put everything else first. Writing is not a luxury. It's a vital part of me 🪼💜

submitted 182 days ago • 0 comments

Another workshop wrapped up! Staff is heading home, exhausted but satisfied.

submitted 182 days ago • 0 comments

We are delighted that all our hard work and planning paid off! Thank you for sharing your thoughts. ❤️

submitted 182 days ago • 1 comment

Another @viableparadise.bsky.social is in the record books. Congratulations to a great class! Please feel free to let me know who you are On Here so we can stay in touch, if you like!

submitted 182 days ago • 8 comments

Hey, there’s a new @viableparadise.bsky.social class! Congratulations! Now go drink some water and take a nap.

submitted 184 days ago • 0 comments

Congratulations to the new class of @viableparadise.bsky.social ! 🏝️

submitted 184 days ago • 0 comments

Thursday at Viable Paradise: Horror, Mandatory Fun, and CURRY NIGHT!

submitted 185 days ago • 2 comments

The hero we need.

submitted 185 days ago • 0 comments

hey just curious did you want to read about a guy leading a crew of exorcists cleaning up the ghosts of megafauna on a newly terraformed planet? but then he discovers one of the ghosts is, even though very unlikely, a HUMAN?? and it was written by @aimeeogden.bsky.social ??? because 👇👇👇

submitted 185 days ago • 2 comments

So excited that my short story “What the Crows Know” is out today in Worlds of Possibility and the cover art is inspired by it! 🥺 A dream come true! Read it here: https://www.juliarios.com/introducing-the-october-2024-issue-of-worlds-of-possibility/