Founded in 2004, The Minnesota Speculative Fiction Writers (MinnSpec) is a 350+ member strong organization of working writers. Our membership includes writers who have published multiple novels with major publishing houses, editors of highly respected magazines, emerging writers with several professional and small press sales, and brand new writers making their first nervous forays into submitting their work.
We provide our members with a variety of activities and events, including monthly meetings to discuss topics of interest to writers and four different monthly workshop groups. MinnSpec offers its members a chance to share writing goals, discuss market news, keep each other on task, and provides a place for general networking and chat about writing SF, both in person and on our message boards. We hold small celebrations to honor our members’ publishing milestones and offer occasional short group readings where members can share works-in-progress and receive light feedback.
MinnSpec organizes periodic Kaffee Klatch chats with well-known local authors such as Lyda Morehouse, Patricia C. Wrede, Lois McMaster Bujold, and Pamela Dean. We also promote the Speculations Reading Series at Dreamhaven Books and hold occasional “Dinner and a Movie” events where we watch great (and not so great) films of the genre. MinnSpec is active in the science fiction convention scene, working with local and regional conventions to help provide programming, readings, and book signings for individual members and the group as a whole.
For more information, please visit us at: http://www.meetup.com/MNspec/
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