The Brainery
Online Speculative Fiction Writing Workshops
The Art of the Impossible
We teach the craft of speculative fiction writing in two ways: the critique model used in competitive graduate programs today; as well as in a way that’s taught nowhere else in the world. We are running the kinds of workshops we always wished we had in grad school.
Explore our workshops for new writers, experienced writers, digital writing residencies, One-on-One mentorship, as well as...
VIVISECTION: A Top Secret Digital Writing Retreat, coming November 2026
Jilly Dreadful is a writer of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror, a new media artist, and educator based in Virginia.
Eat, Prey, Love: A Modest Proposal for Ensuring Gender Equality (Lightspeed Magazine)
Cosmobiological: Stories (Sundress Publications)
De Deabus Minoribus Exterioris Theomagicae (She Walks in Shadows)
5x5 (Lightspeed Magazine)
Lost Angeles (Rough Magick anthology)
Mermaid Cafe (Devilfish Review)
Light & Power: A Tesla/Edison Story (performed in Boston)
The Spectral Dollhouse (The New River)
