Do you have a vision for how life will be for people living on seasteads in the near or distant future?

Bring that vision to life in a novel!

Every year, hundreds of thousands of writers participate in National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo for short. This year, we’re asking authors to write their novels about seasteading.

Our President and Seavangelist, Joe Quirk, has published fiction and nonfiction. He has bestsellers in four categories: fiction, science, memoir, and marine engineering. He was the first writer in the 52-year history of The San Francisco’s Writer’s Workshop to score a major publishing deal. He has since worked on the manuscripts of several unpublished authors who went on to win literary awards, including Erika Mailman, Tamim Ansary, Kemble Scott, and Michael Chorost, sparking an author’s renaissance in San Francisco that has been unremarked on in the press. Most recently, Joe gave a workshop at The Gold Rush Writer’s Conference explaining how he transformed from a struggling writer to a professional author.

Joe has presented at the New Worlds Conference and the InterPlanetary Festival where he connected with scientists interested in building communities in space. These scientists had a deep library of sci-fi novels to inspire them.