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NOVEMBER 21, 2020
“Writing Into Big Questions” – Online Craft Class with Katherine Standefer
How do the big questions of our time–from climate change to racism–inhabit the stories of our lives? And what does it look like on the page to tell exquisitely personal stories in ways that gesture toward larger concerns? In this 90-minute workshop, writers uncover some of the big questions buried in their own narratives, identify research paths that might amplify the intersection between the Self and the World, connect with their own potentially-transformative obsessions, and explore how the stories we choose to tell can change us.
APRIL 25, 2020
Online Science Fiction Writing Craft Class with Dr. Mike Brotherton
Jackson Hole Writers is partnering with Wyoming Stargazing to host a hard science fiction writing workshop on Saturday evening with University of Wyoming Physics and Astronomy Professor Mike Brotherton.
Thanks to the generosity of the Wyoming Humanities Council, in collaboration with Wyoming Stargazing, we will be hosting a science fiction writing workshop in Spring 2020 with published author, Dr. Mike Brotherton, of the University of Wyoming. Stay tuned for more details on the workshop. In the meantime, learn a little bit about Dr. Brotherton below.
Originally from the St. Louis area, he got his PhD in astronomy from the University of Texas in 1996, and held positions at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Kitt Peak National Observatory before moving to Laramie, Wyoming. His specialty is studying the supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies and how they shine when in the active phase. He is also interested in the relationship between such active galactic nuclei (AGN) and their host galaxies, and their mutual evolution. His work is primarily observational, and he uses a wide assortment of telescopes/observatories operating across the electromagnetic spectrum including WIRO, McDonald, IRTF, KPNO, Lick, Keck, Gemini, the VLT, Hubble, Chandra, and the VLA. He also makes use of data archives such as the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys. In addition to being a scientist, he is a science fiction writer, author of the well-received science fiction novels Star Dragon (2003) and Spider Star (2008) from Tor Books. He is also the founder of the NASA-funded Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop for Writers, which brings a dozen award-winning professional writers to Wyoming every summer.
