♦ Seton Hill University's WPF Program - Master of Arts program in Writing Popular Fiction, which concentrates on genre fiction (SF/F/H, Romance, Mystery, YA/Children's) - I am a graduate of this program, and I highly recommend it to anyone; if you have further questions about the program, don't hesitate to e-mail me

♦ Wisconsin Speculative Fiction Writers - this is the group I created for Wisconsin writers of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and anything else odd - people from outside of Wisconsin are welcome to join

♦ Broad Universe - group that promotes SF/F/H written by women

♦ Critters Workshop - online critiquing workshop for SF/F/H

♦ Hatrack River Writer's Group - Orson Scott Card's online critiquing community

♦ NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month is held in November, and it challenges writers to write the rough draft of a 50,000 word novel in one month

♦ Odyssey - The Fantasy Writing Workshop

♦ Clarion - Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers' Workshop

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