Imaginarium 2025 is proud to announce the addition of five new workshops to our programming! There will be over 135 panels and workshops hosted in our 12th 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:
How to Write Funny: Presenter – Virginia Smith. Humorous writing goes beyond telling jokes; learn how to infuse your writing with humor. This workshop will present techniques for instilling humor in fiction, including the Anatomy of a Joke, Phrasing for Impact, Overstatement, Understatement, and more. Each technique is illustrated with examples from published works. Come prepared to laugh and learn!
Stories That Sparkle: Presenter – Virginia Smith. Grip your readers with a story that sparkles by applying Sparkle Tips that address techniques for the creating tensions, seamless sensory description, avoiding throw-away words, and adding backstory that enhances the plot without hijacking it.
Syllabic Poetry Writing Challenge: Presenter – Erynn Crittenden. A challenge for poets of all ages and stages! Come learn about three different poetry forms (the Monosyllabic, the Etheree, and the Dizain) that take the use of syllables to a whole new level. Then, write your own!
Unique Poetry: Presenter – Lee Pennington. Presented by award winning and Pulitzer Prize nominated author, poet, playwright, filmmaker Lee Pennington. Discover how to Become totally aware of one’s environment to become an successful poet.
Writing the Real West Versus the Hollywood West: Presenter – Johnny D. Boggs. It’s not that any Western writer wouldn’t want to have a novel or short story compared to a classic movie. Who wouldn’t want to be likened to Red River, High Noon, or The Wild Bunch? And writers can learn a lot from studying scripts from a masters like Burt Kennedy (7 Men from Now) and William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid). But when putting together Western prose, writers might consider moving away from Hollywood influences and think more about the real, gritty American frontier that was often far removed from white hats, black hats and saloon gals with hearts of gold. Johnny D. Boggs, a nine-time Spur Award winner and recipient of the Western Writers of America’s Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement, discusses the grit and grime of the Old West that usually do not make it into a movie script while pointing out that writers can also learn a few tricks by watching Westerns, and studying screenplays, the good, the bad, and the so-so.
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