Calling all SF writers

[jacey]

Most of you already know about Milford, a week for published SF writers to get together and workshop short stories and novel excerpts in a small, intensive peer to peer gathering. This year it's being held in Snowdonia from 24th to 31st October in our venue of recent years Trigonos - a lovely eco-friendly and comfortable venue within sight of Snowdon itself committed to home grown (organic) food

I've been attending various Milfords (off and on) since 1998 and am on the organising committee. When the bookings first started earlier in the year we filled the places quite quickly, but we've had a surprisingly high dropout rate and as of the present moment we have four available places, one of them only notified to us this week. We obviously need to fill these if at all possible as we block book a specific number of rooms at Triginos.

So please pass the word around, or if you fancy a bracing trip to North Wales in October with a bunch of other SF writerly types please get in touch with us via the Milford web site or drop a note in the comments.

Please note that the minimum requirement for coming to Milford is one professionally published story - so relative beginners are welcome, but many of the writers who attend are multi-published novelists.

Comments

[charlieallery.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'll have a think about this, and let you know for certain in the next day or so, but it looks like a jolly good idea to me. Good usage of some of the prize money I'd have to say. Not to mention the ideal chance to tackle Snowdonia on 2 wheels! (Yes, I do have heated handlebar grips!)

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

That would be fantastic. I'm sure you'll love it! the Heated handlebar grips is a brilliant idea! Do you still have my personal email address? It hasn't changed.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Oh, I hope you can go. I'm feeling guilty now, though I cancelled at the end of July.

Unfortunately, things have moved on since I booked and as I'll be studying two different degree courses and doing some kind of extra work in addition to my part-time OU tutoring, it would be far too stressful to try to do a week of critiquing as well.

[charlieallery.livejournal.com]

I understand that position. I had to cancel last year because I just wouldn't have coped with being around that many people. That shouldn't be an issue now and since I'm just getting back into the production of words, the timing's about right as well. :)

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

As the new term is getting under way, I'm actually starting to panic a bit about all the things I have to do this autumn. It will be all right as long as I time everything right, but if I let things get out of hand, I'll be doomed. :(

I have even started doing a Gantt chart to see how everything pans out!

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

There are often occasional dropouts and it's not usually a problem, but to lose five out of twelve is just plain careless of us!
:-)