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CAA NATIONAL EVENT – Wednesday Webinar Series
April 24 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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Wednesday Webinar Series: Essential Resources for Writers of Speculative Fiction with Su J. Sokol
This webinar is designed to help writers of speculative fiction find tools to help them to improve their craft, perfect their work, and get published, all while receiving the support they need. I will also offer tips on how to best use these tools. The presentation, including Power Point slides, will be followed by a question and answer period.
About Su J. Sokol
Su J Sokol (xe/xyr) is a social rights advocate, a freelance editor, and a writer of speculative and interstitial fiction. A former legal services lawyer from New York City, xe has made Montréal xyr home for twenty years. Sokol is the author of three novels: Cycling to Asylum (2014), which was long-listed for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic and optioned for a film, Run J Run (2019), and Zee (2020), a finalist for the Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Sokol’s short fiction and essays have appeared in various magazines and anthologies including in The Future Fire, Spark: A Creative Anthology, Glittership: an LGBTQ Science Fiction and Fantasy Podcast, After the Orange: Ruin and Recovery (B Cubed Press), Chronicling the Days, Amazing Stories, and Solaris. Les lignes invisibles, the French translation of Cycling to Asylum, was published in August 2022 by VLB Imaginaire. When xe is not writing, battling slumlords, bringing evil bureaucracies to their knees, and smashing borders, Sokol curates and participates in readings and literary events in Canada and abroad.