Imaginarium 2027 is proud to announce the addition of four new Workshops to our programming! There will be over 200 panels and workshops hosted in our 14th year at the Crowne Plaza, so make sure to check back regularly on our official site to see all new additions!
The titles, presenters, and descriptions for these new programming additions are as follows:
New Workshops Added:
Authors, Let’s Make Those Spicy Scenes Sizzle!: Presented by Ariella Talix. Back by popular demand, Ariella Talix will lead another session on writing romance with heat. Ideas and opinions are welcome, and participation is encouraged. We’ll analyze what flops and what soars, and how to make your book memorable. Participants can bring scenes they’d like to share or improve, and we’ll work with you in an encouraging, open-minded atmosphere.
We’ll discuss:
-How to integrate the hot stuff into the plot so it all flows seamlessly.
-Maintaining character development and demonstrating personalities.
-Certain vocabulary according to heat level and appropriateness.
-Variety.
-Whatever our creative minds turn to during our lively discussion. (60 min)
Mapping Your Way to The End Presented by Virginia Smith. Stop getting lost in the middle of your manuscript! This workshop teaches writers how to create a high-level story map before writing, saving months of aimless drafting and heavy rewriting. Designed to give structured writers a clear roadmap and “seat-of-the-pants” writers room to breathe, this session proves that a plot is a tool for freedom, not a cage. Target Audience: beginning and intermediate writers. (60 min)
The Believability Test: Building Dread from the Ordinary: Presented by Matt Clark. Horror doesn’t need a monster. It needs a room willing to believe something’s wrong. In this hands-on session, I take a mundane setting pulled straight from the audience (a laundromat, a pediatrician’s waiting room, a neighborhood group chat) and build real dread from it live, using plausible detail and slow escalation instead of supernatural shortcuts. Part demonstration, part group exercise, this workshop is for anyone who wants to know why quiet horror sticks with you longer than a jump scare, and leave with a method they can actually use on their own work. (60 min)
Using Music as a Writing Tool: Presented by David M. Simms. An interactive session that calls upon psychological research to give stories the flow they deserve, train the brain to follow rhythms, phrasing, and more. (60 min)
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