Go Beyond—Writing Speculative Fiction for Positive Change CEXTN41-202580

Go Beyond—Writing Speculative Fiction for Positive Change

Tuesdays, 9/16-10/7/2025, 6:00pm-9:00pm

Location: Mission Center, room 272

Instructor Loretta M. Haskell

Speculative Fiction encompasses any genre-based writing that reimagines reality—fantasy, sci-fi, horror, etc. It’s also becoming a bit of a genre itself defined by inclusive, transformative, and future-affirming narratives. In speculative fiction, anything is quite literally possible. In this 4-week workshop, you’ll create a short speculative fiction piece that could be submitted to a journal. Each class will consist of a short learning session/discussion, writing time, and group workshop. All skill levels are welcome! 

Instructor Bio: Loretta Haskell is a speculative fiction writer, copywriter, and editor for Luna Station Quarterly, a speculative fiction journal for female-identifying writers. In her own work, she creates female-forward narratives about nature, transformation, memory, and mutable reality. Both professionally and creatively, she draws on an academic background in semiotics and the Middle Ages, with primary research on the Anglo-Saxons, Arthurian myth-making, and Richard III. Haskell has taught creative and academic writing for 10 years, written for sustainable shoe company Allbirds, and supported local small art businesses in the Bay Area, including People I’ve Loved and New Classic Gallery. Her fiction work has appeared in LSQ (2022), SF Art Book Fair (2017), and Euphemism (2008).