We Are Worldbuilders: A Generative Setting Session
with Evan Griffith
DATE: Thursday, May 28, 2025
TIME: 7:00 - 8:30 PM EST
WHERE: Online
Price: $35
The term “worldbuilding” is most commonly used in the creation of fantasy, sci-fi, and speculative stories. But ALL of us, whether we write realistic fiction, historical fiction, or even—yes—nonfiction, are builders of worlds.
Join award-winning author and VCFA faculty member Evan Griffith, for this highly generative and interactive session. Whether you have a project in progress or you’re brainstorming something new, whether you’re working on a middle grade or a young adult, whether you’re building a magical world or a contemporary one, this workshop will enable you to adapt and apply fantasy worldbuilding tools to multiple settings across form and genre.
You will come away having deepened your setting in both specificity and emotional resonance, creating a more immersive world for young readers. Come prepared to think, write, and play.
Workshop will be recorded.
Evan Griffith is the author of the middle-grade novels Manatee Summer and The Strange Wonders of Roots and the picture book biographies Secrets of the Sea: The Story of Jeanne Power, Revolutionary Marine Scientist and Wild at Heart: The Story of Olaus and Mardy Murie, Defenders of Nature. His books have received the Green Earth Book Award and the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award, been featured on several state award lists, and earned multiple starred reviews, among other honors. He worked for several years as an editor at Workman Publishing and now teaches at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. He lives in Austin, Texas.