Intisar Khanani, author of A Darkness at the Door, will be co-teaching an online mini-course on worldbuilding with fellow author Alisa Alering, sponsored by the Highlights Foundation. Full details and registration info can be found here. A brief description of the workshop can be found below.

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Fantasy authors Intisar Khanani and Alisa Alering want you to know that there is more to world building than setting.

World building in your novel includes crucial aspects of developing a physical environment, AND the social systems that your characters inhabit. When physical and social systems interact, truly immersive fictional worlds come to life.

Join us to learn more about:

• Creating a vivid physical setting for your story
• How setting interacts with character and informs plot
• Developing diverse, intersectional communities
• Representing social mores, customs, and manners
• The two questions you MUST ask about every world-building choice
• and more!

IT’S A GREAT FIT FOR:

• Middle grade or young adult novelists who are interested in making their fictional and fantastical worlds as multi-dimensional as possible.
• Writers of fantasy or speculative fiction. World building is vital in all forms of fiction, and requires special considerations in fantasy and speculative fiction.
• If you’re looking for something short, sweet, and smart! This is not a full workshop; it is two 75-minute sessions with limited engagement meant to open up world building as more than a setting on a page.