Crafting Gothic Settings and Motifs workshop
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Crafting Gothic Settings and Motifs workshop
Join award-winning author and teacher Lauren Archer for an immersive 2-hour workshop exploring how to create spooky gothic settings, infused with the classic motifs of the genre.
In this immersive gothic writing workshop, you'll unlock the secrets to conjuring deliciously dark, eerie and foreboding atmospheres that will chill your readers to the bone.
Through hands-on descriptive exercises, you'll master crafting haunting, Gothic-inspired settings like looming medieval castles, shadowy moors and crumbling manors thick with menace. But ravishing prose is just the beginning - you'll also explore incorporating quintessential Gothic themes of death, madness and the supernatural, along with potent symbols and motifs like the uncanny and the sublime.
By session's end, you'll wield the full arsenal to transport readers into your richly unsettling fictional worlds. Prepare to embrace your inner Edgar Allan Poe!
Limited spaces available. Secure your spot for an unforgettable masterclass in cultivating the pleasures of the macabre!
Lauren Archer is a writer of the gothic, surreal and strange based in Liverpool, UK. Her short story 'Out of Water' was published by Crow and Cross Keys literary journal. In 2022, her short story 'The Allotment' was longlisted for the Mslexia Short Story Prize.