Join board member Michelle Kelleher every second Tuesday for this new daytime writing series. We’ll run through a new set of unusual writing prompts every session, pulled from craft books, classes, and imagination, before moving into forty minutes of free writing. Treat these prompts as a catalyst to create something new or as a warm-up before moving on to an existing project. Every session of Uncommon Prompts will be different. Come try something new to keep your creativity flowing throughout the year. 

This event is free and open to the community. No RSVP required.

A world-building workshop using the STEEPLE+ method.

All speculative fiction begins with a single compelling idea—but how do you transform that spark into a world that feels rich, believable, and alive? In this interactive workshop, author TQ Sims (The Lovers Universe series) will guide you through the "STEEPLE+" method of world-building, a practical framework for developing cultures, technology, politics, ecology, and more by following the logical consequences of your core concept. Whether you're building your first world or refining an existing one, you'll leave with a repeatable strategy and the foundational building blocks of a unique setting ready to inspire your next story.

TQ Sims (he/him, they/them) is a longtime New Orleans resident, where he lives with his husband and an ever-growing clowder of cats. His short fiction has appeared in Playboy and Beyond Queer Words. His hopepunk sci-fi series The Lovers Universe—described by HuffPost as “both smart and sexy”—includes the novels Godspeed, Lovers; Lovers in Arms; and End as Lovers. Find him on Instagram: @t.q.sims.

This event is free and open to the community. No RSVP necessary.