Compelling Fantasy Worlds: South Coast Readers and Writers’ Festival Workshop

Join renowned author Isobelle Carmody in a Fantasy workshop that will guide you through the process of building a world from the character out, creating settings that serve to advance their story, rather than merely decorating it.

Isobelle Carmody spends much of her time travelling. Although she has been writing fantasy set in other worlds and times and places, since she wrote her first book at 14, her writing always drawn on reality, and her travels are very much a part of her writing process. She uses both realism and the fantastic, to create compelling worlds and characters.

Participants in this workshop will undertake practical steps that draw on their own lives and experiences to build both compelling settings and characters shaped by an exploration of their own questions and concerns in the real world. This approach enables the creation of genuinely original and compelling fantasy, rather than being fantasy that is little more than a re arrangement of tired fantasy tropes.