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Imaginarium 2026 is proud to announce the addition of two new Workshops and one new Panel to our programming! There will be over 135 panels and workshops hosted in our 13th year, 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: Building Metadata in Ebooks: Presenter – Gregg Bridgeman. Ebooks are basically electronic code. Tapping Gregg’s cybersecurity experience and intellect, he will show how to build metadata in the background of your ebooks to help them become much more discoverable among theRead More →

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Imaginarium 2026 proudly welcomes award-winning international makeup FX artist Sven Granlund as a Spotlighted Guest! With over 30 years of professional experience, Sven’s work has appeared in numerous Hollywood and TV productions, including Deadpool and Deadpool 2, Kong Skull Island, The Cello, Blade Runner 2049, Trumbo, American Horror Story, and many, many more! Sven taught professional Special Effects and Prosthetics at Dick Smith’s world famous makeup school for several years, and he is a co-founder of KY Creature FX! We are honored to have Sven join us for our 13th year, taking place July 17-19 , 2026 in Louisville, Kentucky! For further information on theRead More →

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Imaginarium 2026 is proud to announce the addition of three new Workshops and one new Panel to our programming! There will be over 135 panels and workshops hosted in our 13th year, 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: Illustrating for Online Presentations: Presenter – Jill Baker. If you are an illustrator, how do you go about discerning the gist of the writer’s imagery and what he or she had in mind when they wrote?Illustrations for books, magazines and onlineRead More →

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Imaginarium 2026 is proud to announce the addition of four new Workshops to our programming! There will be over 135 panels and workshops hosted in our 13th year, 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: Ask The Agent: Part I: Presenter – Cherry Weiner. Take the guesswork out of the query process! This dynamic session provides a unique platform to directly engage with a literary agent. Ask your most pressing questions about submissions, agent-author relationships, what makes a manuscript standRead More →

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Imaginarium 2026 is proud to announce the addition of three new Workshops to our programming! There will be over 135 panels and workshops hosted in our 13th year, 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: Be The 10%: Presenter – Hallee Bridgeman. Agents and editors say that 80%-90% of the submissions they receive aren’t even able to be edited to the point of publication. If you consider that the “best” an author has to submit is what is sent toRead More →

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Imaginarium 2026 is proud to announce the addition of one new Panel and one new Workshop to our programming! There will be over 135 panels and workshops hosted in our 13th year, 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 Panel Added Slushfest: Moderator – Barbara V. Evers. Writers anonymously submit the first page, double-spaced, of a work in progress. It’s read aloud, and panelists (agents, publishers, editors, authors) raise their hands at the point when they would stop reading. Once half theRead More →

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Imaginarium 2026 is proud to announce the addition of four new Panels and two new Workshops and to our programming! There will be over 135 panels and workshops hosted in our 13th year, 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 Panels Added Bulletproofing Your Plot: Building Inconsistency-Free Worlds: Moderator – TBA. The best way to fix a plot hole is to never fall into one. This panel dives into the structural foundations that keep a story airtight. We will discuss the importanceRead More →

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Imaginarium 2026 is proud to announce the addition of two new Workshops and to our programming! There will be over 135 panels and workshops hosted in our 13th year, 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: Developing Deep Point of View: Presenter – DiAnn Mills. Deep point of view helps the writer to show rather than tell, but the technique is more about creating a close relationship between the character and reader. One character experiences the scene, and that characterRead More →

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Imaginarium 2026 is proud to announce the addition of two new Workshops and one new Panel to our programming! There will be over 135 panels and workshops hosted in our 13th year, 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: Stress, Conflict, and Transformation: Testing Characters Under Pressure: Presenter – John Morgan Risner. Once a character is built, the real test begins: pressure. This advanced companion workshop shows writers how to reveal true character through conflict, escalating stakes, moral dilemmas, andRead More →

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Imaginarium 2026 is proud to announce the addition of two new Workshops to our programming! There will be over 135 panels and workshops hosted in our 13th year, 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: Create Memorable Characters. Presenter – Rebecka Vigus. Leverage a 3-Step Process to Create Memorable Characters…Every writer wants to have repeat readers. Readers help put you on the best-selling lists. You want to have characters your readers will remember after the book ends. This will keepRead More →