World Building Workshop with Den Valdron
Details
When: Sunday, April 26, 2-4 pm
Where: Boardroom of ArtSpace, 100 Arthur Street, Winnipeg
Cost: $50 for members, $65 for non-members
REGISTER AT: https://mbwriters.ca/product/worldbuildingworkshop/
Topic to be covered include:
- How do you kill a Vampire?
- The purpose of World Building to inspire creativity, not strangle it.
- Build any world you want!
- Why do World Building? What’s the purpose? How much do you need?
- Making a setting.
- Different approaches to World building.
- How do you build a world? Do you need to build a world?
- Basics
…and much more!
Workshop includes references and handouts.
About the facilitator, Dennis Valdron:
With Den Valdron, a speculative fiction writer, pop-culture essayist and aboriginal rights lawyer, living and working in Winnipeg, Manitoba. As a writer, his short stories have been published in magazines and anthologies in North America, Britain, Australia and Russia. He has several collections of speculative fiction and horror stories and novels. He’s also published extensive nonfiction about Canadian Sci Fi – LEXX and Starlost, Cult television and movies, including Doctor Who, and topics as diverse as writing, publishing, self-publishing, 1930’s pulps, Lovecraft, Burroughs, Godzilla and nerd culture. His website and blog are at denvaldron.com.