Cat Rambo writes, reads, edits, and teaches from a remote location in the Pacific Northwest. Their 200+ original fiction publications include appearances in Asimov’s, Weird Tales, and Tor.com. They have been nominated for the Endeavor, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award, won a Nebula Award for novelette Carpe Glitter, and were President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America for four years.
Cat Rambo has been teaching online for decades, and 2020 marks the 10th year of their own online school, Rambo Academy for Wayward Writers.
Cat’s Classes:
- The Algorithms of Storytelling: Design Patterns and Fiction
- The Art of the Book Review (with Nisi Shawl)
- Beginnings and Endings
- Canva Basics for Writers
- Character Building Workshop
- On-demand version available here.
- Creating an Online Presence for Writers
- Description and Delivering Information
- On-demand version available here.
- Different Kinds of Love: Writing Relationships that Aren’t Romantic
- Dunking the Reader in the Details: Toolsets for Creating Immersive Worlds
- On-demand version available here.
- Eating Your Words: How to Write About Food
- The First Novel Draft Blues: How to Revise and Rewrite
- First Pages Workshop (with Rachel Swirsky)
- Fixing the Broken Story
- Flash Fiction Workshop
- On-demand version available here.
- Follow the Money: Using Economics in Plotting, World-building, and Character Development
- Freelancing, Hustles, and Sidegigs: Ways to Work without Derailing Your Writing
- Groups, Parties, and Crews: Writing Ensembles
- Handling Social Media for Writers
- How to Write Steampunk & Weird Western
- On-demand version available here.
- Let’s Play Writing Games
- Literary Techniques for Speculative Fiction
- On-demand version available here.
- Make Mine Moody: Creating Atmosphere and Mood in Your Fiction
- Make Yourself More Discoverable Online: SEO Basics for Creative People
- Moving From Idea to Draft
- On-demand version available here.
- Pitches and Synopses (with Jennifer Brozek)
- Power Word Real Name: Upping Your Game with Names and Titles
- Principles for Pantsers
- Prophecies, Predictions, and Prognostications: Creating Fortune-Telling Systems for Your World
- Punk U: The Whys and Whats of Writing -punk Fiction
- Reading Aloud Workshop
- On-demand version available here.
- Replying to Other Stories
- Rewriting, Revising & Fine-Tuning Fiction (formerly Editing 101)
- On-demand version available here.
- Stories that Change Our World: How to Write Hopepunk
- Story Fundamentals
- Systems of Magic: How to Use Your Magic to Enrich Your Worldbuilding
- Taking Your Titles to the Next Level
- Twenty Types of Terror: Exploring Horror Subgenres
- Tone It Up: Creating and Amplifying Tone in Fiction
- Writing About Magic
- Writing F&SF Stories 6-Week Workshop
- Writing Nonbinary (with José Pablo Iriarte)
- Writing Relationships
- Writing Your Way Into Your Novel
- WTFBBQ: Writing Experimental Fiction
