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Best practices for giving, getting, and using critique based on writing style and project.
Cost: Free – Donations Appreciated!
When: Saturday, May 31st @ 10:00am PT
Who: Daryl Gregory and Randy Henderson for Cascade Writers
What: A 3-hour online workshop discussing the art of critiquing, including:
- Popular critique methods and tips on how to pick the right one for you
- Critiquing novels vs short stories
- Best practices for giving critique
- Best practices for receiving critique
- How using critique differs based on your writing process and the stage of your work
- Feedback from critique readers vs editors
- How to find good critique partners (including alpha and beta readers)
- Practical tips and preview of critiquing for attendees of the upcoming Cascade Writers Workshop
Daryl Gregory is a Seattle writer whose novels and short stories have been translated into a dozen languages and have won multiple awards, including the World Fantasy, Shirley Jackson, and Crawford awards, and have been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, Edgar, and other awards. His latest novel is When We Were Real (4/2025).
His seven other novels include Revelator, Spoonbenders, and Pandemonium. Other books include the novellas The Album of Dr. Moreau and We Are All Completely Fine, and the collection Unpossible and Other Stories. He also teaches writing and is a regular instructor at the Viable Paradise Writing Workshop.
Randy Henderson is the author of the darkly humorous urban fantasy series that includes Finn Fancy Necromancy, Bigfootloose & Finn Fancy Free, and Smells Like Finn Spirit, published by Tor (US) and Titan (UK). He is the Golden Pen Grand Prize winner of Writers of the Future for 2014, and his short fiction has appeared in numerous professional publications. Randy graduated from the Clarion West writing workshop in 2009.
Randy has experience as a reader, lecturer, and panel participant on the subject of writing at events such as Cascade Writers, Norwescon, WorldCon, World Fantasy Convention, and Rainforest Writers Retreats, as well as his own independent workshops.
