We offer on-line, e-learning courses as well as web-based interactive workshops to support your quest for better fantasy and science-fiction writing. Our curriculum is build around levels of interactivity and experience.

LEVEL 100 COURSES

Our foundation level courses are designed to provide just that … a foundation for writing Speculative Fiction. They will provide instruction on essential, fundamental skills in an e-learning environment that you can experience at your own pace as well as interaction with others in your course to help polish your skills. Please select the course below that interests you.

100: Quest for Fire Seminar Sampler
101: Foundations of Speculative Fiction

Additional Courses will be posted as they become available.

LEVEL 200 COURSES

Our ‘upper division’ courses ‘pop open the hood’ on your Speculative Fiction story and tune it up through a deeper examination of plot structure, character relationships and world setting. Emphasis at this level is toward practical application of techniques to directly improve your manuscript and the story it tells. Please select the course that interests you.

201: The Imagination Forge

210: Hickman’s Forge

Additional courses will be posted as they become available.

LEVEL 300 COURSES

This the highest level offered in our courses is where you will find personal, one-on-one workshop retreat experience with our instructors. Participants will fly to the retreat location for a week-long immersive workshop conducted in person by Tracy and Laura Hickman.

301: Hickman’s Workshop Retreat

Additional courses will be posted as they become available.