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Christopher Bartlett

Signum Tutorials Program • SPACE Preceptor

A writer and poet who wants your story to thrive

Christopher is a musician, singer/songwriter, and writer who brings his experience and teaching skills to SPACE. [see full bio...]

Current and Upcoming Modules

September 2025
February 2026
April 2026

Highlighted Modules

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Midst: Adventures in Unusual Storytelling

Discussion-based Low intensity
The Midst podcast (which can be found at http://www.midst.co) is a strange and compelling space western horror science fantasy. . . hmmm. Let me start again. Midst is a planetoid revolving in a cosmos very unlike our own, one that contains strange creatures...

Creative Writing: Oral Storytelling

Discussion-based Medium intensity
Storytelling might just be our oldest art, crossing time, cultures, and continents. Crafting a story suitable for telling demands a heightened awareness of audience, medium, and meaning. Telling a story requires fluidity in a register both intimate and stylized. We'll create, practice, and tell our ...

Creative Writing: A Flash of Brilliance Writing Flash Fiction

Discussion-based Medium intensity
This Writer's Workshop will be for practicing the art of writing flash fiction, works that are of 500 or fewer words in length. This is a marvelous place for a new writer to begin as the size is not overwhelming. It is also a marvelous place for a seasoned writer to practice the craft of scene cre...

Creative Writing: Let's Talk About Dialogue

Mixed Lecture/Discussion High intensity
It turns out that writing dialogue can be tricky. A writer has to accomplish a lot through the way in which a character speaks, and how that speech is described. How do people talk to one another? Do they orate? Do they exchange fast and witty quips? Do they lecture one another to impart tons o...

Creative Writing: Making the Scene (Year of the Novel)

Discussion-based High intensity
When you think about your favorite stories, chances are you conjure the memory of a scene: the charge of the Rohirrim at the coming of the new dawn, Luke turning off his targeting computer as he flies down the trench, or when Ged finally acknowledges the identity of the shadow being that has followe...

Creative Writing: One Month Story

Mixed Lecture/Discussion High intensity
We will walk through a complete project from pre-writing through writing, revising, editing, (revising, revising, revising), proofreading, and talking about publication options. Are you interested in finally getting down that memoir of your childhood? making a storybook for your grands? turning that...

Creative Writing: Workshop

Discussion-based High intensity
We will meet to blend learning, discussion, and playing games with reading, appreciating, and commenting on one another’s work as it is submitted for peer review. Writers are encouraged—but never required—to submit new pieces in any state of draftiness or readiness up to 2,000 words each week for pe...
February 2026 March 2026

Writers' Workshop Writing the Other: The Different Body Problem

Discussion-based
It's a sometimes inconvenient fact that characters have bodies, and sometimes, those bodies directly affect the stories we write about them. Writing characters who live in bodies that do not perform according to the cultural standard is a skill like any other part of the writer's craft. In this cou...

Year of the Novel: Creative Writing Series Non-Sequential Series

Discussion-based High intensity
Are you ready for an adventure in writing? The Year of the Novel provides support, in depth practice of the writing craft, and encouraging feedback for your story (even if it's not a novel). One cluster of modules is for Seedling Stories, just in their beginning stages; one is for Sapling Stories ...

All Modules as Support Preceptor