Does your writing have as much to do with invention as with memory?

Does "writing about what you know" mean writing about

• the unquiet dead?
• cross-dressing mermaids?
• butter-fat brides?
• aliens from inner or outer space?

Are tricksters and golems, saints and gods as real to you as the news?
Does your idea of story extend from the oral tradition through the gothic and detective, the various "-isms" and the comic strip and back again?

Have you been enjoying the work of Angela Carter, Robert Coover, Italo Calvino, Ursula Le Guin, Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, Stanislas Lem, Jonathan Lethem, Sandra Cisneros, Thomas Disch, or Carol Lay?

If the answer to one or more of these questions is "yes," then you might like the Fables and Fantasies workshop.