17 - 21 October 2008
Rive-Loup
France
Attendants: Aliette de Bodard, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Chance Morrison, Deanna Carlyle, Floris Kleijne, Jeffrey Spock (organizer), John Olsen, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Ruth Nestvold, Sara Genge, and Stephen Gaskell
Organized by Jeff Spock and held in October 2008 near Bar sur Loup in southern France.
Front: Rochita, Aliette, Ruth, Jeff, Chance, Deanna
Reports on this workshop
- Report and photos by Aliette de Bodard
- Report by Benjamin Rosenbaum (Answers from the Surreal Oracle)
- Photos by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
- Photos by Ruth Nestvold
- Report by Sara Genge
- Report and photos by Stephen Gaskell
This is a list of the works that were either workshopped or brainstormed at this workshop and have since been sold or published.
Brag List
- Aliette de Bodard, Heaven under Earth, Electric Velocipede (2013) (Tiptree Award Honour story)
- Floris Kleijne, Prisoner of war, Space and Time Magazine (2013) (retired after brainstorming it at VD2, unretired and critiqued at VD3)
- Stephen Gaskell, The charnel pit, Triangulation: Last Contact (2011)
- Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Alternate Girl's Expatriate Life, Interzone (2010)
- Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Teaching a pink elephant how to ski, Fantasy Magazine (2009) (and she Tuckerizes us! Try to find everyone! Must surely be the ultimate Villa Diodati story… )
- Jeffrey Spock, Of Love and Mermaids, Tumbarumba (2008)
- John Olsen, Birthday, Tumbarumba (2008)
- Stephen Gaskell, Reunion, Tumbarumba (2008)