Nova Ren Suma's Blog

I’m delighted to announce that I’m teaching a new class with Stanford Continuing Studies this fall. It’s called Speculative Novel Workshop: The Unreal, the Surreal, the Fantastic, and registration opens Sept. 18! Speculative Novel Workshop: The Unreal, the Surreal, the Fantastic with Nova Ren Suma Online asynchronous (10 weeks) September 23 – December 2 Please […]

Want to dig deep into character? I’m offering a webinar that features my own personal tips, tricks, and creative exercises to develop the young characters in novels. Some years ago, I had the joy of leading a novel-writing workshop at the Writing Barn in Austin, Texas, and I’ve never forgotten that experience. I’m excited to return to […]

Fiction writers… I have a new online craft intensive with Tin House! Want a generative opportunity to delve into crafting fantastical, haunted, hallucinatory, or just simply strange settings? This is the class. Registration is now open, spots are limited, and here are the details: Tin House Craft Intensives Strange Places with Nova Ren Suma Sunday, […]

I have a new essay featured in CrimeReads that speaks to one of the underlying inspirations for Wake the Wild Creatures… outlaws who are women, and the stories we tell about them. My essay “Outlaw Women in Fiction” begins like this: “I was twelve years old when I met my first outlaw.” This essay speaks […]

The Horn Book has featured Wake the Wild Creatures on its 2025 Summer Reading List, in the Summer Reading for High School section. If you’re planning to visit the Catskills at any point this summer, do you want to read about a community of fugitive women and girls occupying a dilapidated former Borscht Belt hotel […]

There is a thrilling review of Wake the Wild Creatures in the Washington Post this week, included in a feature on four new releases in science fiction & fantasy, written by Charlie Jane Anders. The Washington Post article is paywalled, so I will share the incredible words about Wake the Wild Creatures here: Wake the […]

Did you know that Wake the Wild Creatures is also available in audiobook? It is—and narrated by the wondrous Helen Laser! If you’d like to hear an audio sample from the book, read on… Wake the Wild Creatures can now be found at all audiobook retailers, including Libro.fm, which is a way to buy an […]

I’m delighted to share that Wake the Wild Creatures is now on sale wherever books are sold! It’s available in hardcover and ebook from Little, Brown—and in audio from Hachette Audio! I want to thank many of you for pre-ordering the book and buying it this first on-sale week, and for all the wonderful people […]

I’m on faculty with the Tin House 2025 Autumn Online Workshop, which is focused on speculative fiction! This is a place where futuristic settings, fresh takes on old myths, and supernatural happenings are all welcome… I’ll be leading a workshop for writers working on YA fiction of any and all speculative genres. As you may […]

Wake the Wild Creatures would be a great choice to bring to your book club! My publisher has created a Book Club Guide with some discussion questions I’m happy to share. Wake the Wild Creatures moves backwards and forwards in time, revealing Talia’s story in a nonlinear narrative. How does this structure contribute to your […]