Learn How to Write Dark Fantasy/Horror Workshop

with Award-winning Author Tim Waggoner

Date: Saturday, July 22, 2023 at 10 AM Mountain / 11 AM Central Standard Time

Join Multiple Bram Stoker Award-Winning Author to learn his secrets to writing fantastic dark fantasy/horror stories in a 90 minute workshop. He'll share tips, lessons learned the hard way, how he gets into the mood to write, and writing on a deadline.

Tim Waggoner's first novel came out in 2001, and since then he's published over fifty novels and seven collections of short stories. He writes original dark fantasy and horror, as well as media tie-ins. He's written tie-in fiction based on Supernatural, Grimm, The X-Files, Alien, Doctor Who, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Transformers, among others, and he's written novelizations for films such as Halloween Kills, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter and Kingsman: The Golden Circle. His articles on writing have appeared in Writer's Digest, The Writer, The Writer’s Chronicle. He’s the author of the acclaimed horror-writing guide Writing in the Dark, which won the Bram Stoker Award in 2021. He won another Bram Stoker Award in 2021 in the category of short nonfiction for his article “Speaking of Horror,” and in 2017 he received the Bram Stoker Award in Long Fiction for his novella The Winter Box. In addition, he's been a multiple finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and the Scribe Award, and a one-time finalist for the Splatterpunk Award. His fiction has received numerous Honorable Mentions in volumes of Best Horror of the Year, and he’s had several stories selected for inclusion in volumes of Year’s Best Hardcore Horror. His work has been translated into Russian, Portuguese, Japanese, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Hungarian, and Turkish. In addition to writing, he's also a full-time tenured professor who teaches creative writing and composition at Sinclair College in Dayton, Ohio.

This class is limited to 30 people for the workshop, with a minimum 8 people registered to have the class. Please be sure to give us your email address so we may send the virtual meeting link for the class.

Materials Needed to partake in the class: notebook and pen for taking notes, computer or smartphone for virtual meeting link, email address, and a desire to learn how to write dark fantasy/horror stories.

Email Brittiany Koren at brittiany@writtendreams.com with any specific questions regarding content of the class or schedule. Thank you!