Michelle Kelleher, our Director of Events, will lead an exercise-focused workshop on fantasy worldbuilding.

Beginning with a brief roundtable discussion about what we all find compelling in well-built fantasy worlds, we’ll touch on ideas like internal versus external logic, the structure of magic or sociopolitical systems in your new society, and how to choose the details that help make a world feel realistic without info-dumping.

We’ll then jump into a series of solo and group exercises pulled from several sources, including writing craft books, online author lectures, classes, and tabletop gaming to start building well-thought-out worlds to play in later. 

You don’t need to come with an existing idea (though it’s fine if you do), the prompts are designed to encourage you to think about how to write a world that holds together for the reader.

Setting and worldbuilding are important skills across genres, and while these exercises will have a strong SFF theme, we welcome all writers to this workshop.

This event is free and open to all writers. No RSVP necessary.