Award-winning author Alex Temblador of Writing An Identity Not Your Own has taken her writing craft book and created a class that teaches writers of science fiction, fantasy, speculative fiction, dystopian, and romantasy how to write characters whose identity is not their own.

Temblador will teach writers how they might approach creating main, secondary, and tertiary characters in a SFF story who have historically marginalized identities in relation to race, ethnicity, sexual and romantic orientation, gender identity, disability, nationality, etc. You’ll learn about bias and how it can influence dialogue, storylines, and characterization. Everything from tropes to stereotypes, mirroring, discrimination scenes, and inspiration porn will be discussed in this class.

Although Writing An Identity Not Your Own provides insight into this writing process for all creative writers, this course will highlight some specific challenges that fantasy, science fiction, speculative fiction, and romantasy writers of all backgrounds (adult, young adult, middle grade, etc.) face.