CFWC Members

So, if you are interested in getting into the Christian Fiction Writers Circle, comment on this post with your bio:

Name: As it appears on SS

Member Level: Full vs Telescope vs Partial (see Intro post for details)

Stack(s): Where your fiction appears. If it appears off substack, you will need to give us some sort of link. If you don’t write fiction, your Substack address.

Confession: The Apostles Creed is mandatory, if you have a further confession, list it here.

Fiction: What genres of fiction you write. (Put ‘none’ if you don’t write Christian Fiction (yet).

Goals: What are your goals as a Christian writer. These are your ‘What I want my writing to communicate’ goals, not your ‘I want to make a million dollars and become world famous’ goals.

Bio: (Optional) A brief rundown of you who are: Age (or generation), spouse, kids, grandkids, travel, job.

A reminder, the goal of this circle is to to encourage, support, and critique each other’s Substack writing. This group would be dealing with explicitly Christian fiction only. Not mere ‘fiction by a Christian author’, but fiction intended to advance the cause of Christ. You can write all sorts of things, but submissions to this circle should be explicitly Christian and fiction. This can include dystopias, allegories, science fiction, fantasy, etc. It can be gospel focused, or teach life lessons. It can include all ages. Foul language will not be permitted.

Members

Von

Name:

Von

Stack(s): Von’s Substack

Confession: LBC 1689

Fiction: Sci-fiction, Fantasy, Anti-Romance (or, upside down romance: love-feelings comes after commitment), Historical Fiction, Dystopias

Goals:

-To glorify God

-To preach the gospel

-To challenge the church in areas of modern heresy or false doctrine

-specifically marriage

-specifically, the path to marriage

-specifically, authority within marriage

-specifically sexual relations in marriage

-specifically fruitfulness from marriage

-specifically breastfeeding as a picture of the gospel

-specifically modern Gnosticism in light of the marriage bed

-specifically in the ‘perfect princess’ concept

-specifically issues of honour thy father

-Child Training, including chores and spanking and responsibility. Which area includes modern heresies, certainly.

-When writing Historical fiction, not to bow down to our modern age. To use concepts, language, and attitudes of that time, not our time. To deal with issues as they faced them then. (Thus a modern Christian novel or movie might have a man struggling with pornography on the internet. The 19^th century equivalent was… mistresses. The female equivalent in both eras was probably romance novels.)

- To avoid modern, false stereotypes… such as ones where the woman is super Godly and the man a foolish jerk.

Bio: Grandfather, former missionary, former teacher, former LVN and EMT.

Victoria

Name:

Victoria Jensen

Stack(s): Victoria Jensen's Books and Short Stories

Confession: 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith

Fiction: science fiction, fantasy (possibly dystopian and historical fiction in the future)

Goals:

- To bring glory to God through my writing

- To present biblically accurate pictures of men, women, and creation

- To reach the culture through my writing without falling into the same patterns and sinful ideals of the modern world

- To show what is wrong the with the culture's view of beauty and truth

- To be a light to a dark world

Bio: 16-year-old homeschooler, daughter and sister

Michael

Name: Michael P. Marpaung

Stack(s): Germanicus Publishing

Confession: The Catholic Church (Latin Rite) (I don’t think this is a confession per se, but I think it is clear enough)

Fiction: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Space Opera, Adventure, Contemporary, Romance (as a sideplot)

Goals:

-To write fun and engaging speculative stories that are in line with Christian morality.

-To depict zeal and religious fervor for the Christian religion in a positive light

-To explore the question of Providence and the movement of God’s hand in human history.

Bio:

-Catholic convert, born in 1992, American by citizenship, Indonesian by nationality, Batak by race. 17th-generation Marpaung. Former TSA agent, now trying his hand at being a serious writer. Holds a Master’s Degree, for what it’s worth.

Stephen Weller

Name:

Stephen Weller

Stack(s):

Sancti Stulti

Sancti Stulti, da solo a piedi

Confession: Roman Catholic (not a confession but OK)

Fiction: I have never written fiction: I am writing a memoir on da solo apiedi which comes closer to it than my usual non-fiction wheelhouse.

Goals:

Substance: I want to write a book of short stories that help explain the mysteries of the Most Holy Rosary. i.e. stories that take place in contemporary life but elucidate the spiritual dynamics of each mystery. I would also like to write short satirical plays for street theatre performance. These two are my immediate goals. I would also someday like to write historical fiction about Christ and the Apostles on Mission and the Early Church.

Intention: I would like to convert souls and be able to produce fiction that is considered of the highest quality.

Bio: American, catholic convert. I live as a missionary and pilgrim in europe

Karaļauču Augusts

Name:

Karaļauču Augusts

Stack(s): Konigsberg Papers (Nothing yet)

Konigsberg Papers

Confession: The Book of Concord (Confessional Lutheranism)

Fiction: None (But intend to lean into fantasy and science fiction)

Goals: To write speculative fiction stories in a Christian frame and do my part in creating a Christian cultural space.

To portray and examine faith, vocation, heroism and fate removed from Modernist conceits.

To attack the framings of the forms of all kinds of modernism.

Bio: Latvian (born, raised and living in the Fatherland's emerald shores) early zoomer (23), student of theology, lover of history, convert from atheism. Some talent with languages, though as much as a tad too much time on the net has given me a grasp at English that I would consider good.

Joseph

Name: Joseph

Stack: Brothers Krynn

Confession: The Catholic Church

Fiction: Mythology-Fantasy

Goals:

-To write mythological and fantasy tales in line with Christian morality.

-To depict Christian values and Chivalry in a positive manner

-My goal is to show-case the benefits of Eucatastrophes and of God's love on earth

Bio:

-Canadian by citizenship, am of Franc-Celtique descent. Left Christ for almost half my life, but then returned two years ago. Never leaving him again, as I have no wish to return to being a 'prodigal son'.

Megha

Name: Megha

Stack(s): Classical Ideals

Confession: Catholic

Fiction: Fantasy, Romance, Fairy Tale,

Goals:

- To write good quality fiction that is at least in the same ball park as the classics, if not at the same level yet

- To write fiction that is suitable for young and old

- To challenge and overturn the propaganda that is anti-Man, anti-God, anti-hierarchy. To destroy the Girlboss and through fiction show how we may overcome the vices of the modern world

- To tell the truth about the human heart

- To bring enchantment and delight through beauty

Bio: Mother, Wife, I have one baby girl, age 28, addicted to writing, idealistic to a fault, judgemental and harsh toward the vile, the evil and the vulgar, very sensitive

Avgust

Name: Avgust von Bornhauser

Stack: After Eden

Confession: Orthodox

Fiction: Horror, Paranormal, Occult

Goals: To develop Orthodox apologetics via world-building and speculation

Bio: Anglo-Norman-Rhodesian-Jew (Kavkazi, Ashkenazi, Sephardi), rage-filled, ex-homeless, published neuroscientist, Korean translator and failed-via-injury competitive boulderer, divorced father of one

More Members

We are still looking for more members, so feel free to post a comment.