Imaginarium 2025 is proud to announce the addition of ten new Workshops and one new Panel 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:
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 stand out, and more. Gain firsthand knowledge and valuable feedback to elevate your publishing aspirations.
Ask the Agent: Part II: Presenter -Cherry Weiner. A round-up session to get answers to questions that you may have discovered you wanted to ask during the convention and did not get a chance to. Any time left over during this session will be filled in with agent Cherry Weiner’s stories of her journey as an agent, the authors she has met, and anything that might, again, raise questions.
Crafting a Sympathetic Protagonist from Scene One: Presenter – Zac Sherman. This workshop will provide an overview of eight protagonist traits that can be highlighted in the first scene to generate character sympathy. Participants will then be divided into small groups and given an unlikable character. They will have the chance to modify that character, using their choice of sympathy traits, and then share the results with the whole group.
D20 Plot Generator: Presenter – Amanda-Grace Shultz/Amethyst Drake. Struggling to come up with new ideas? Learn a fun and creative plot generation strategy using dice! This DIY approach is fully customizable to your genre and personal writing goals: hands-on, brainstorming workshop with opportunities to put the technique into practice.
Draw Me a Story: Presenter – J.C. Daniels/Shiloh Walker. A workshop focused on how to use visual cues to build complex, layered characters.
Idea Tree Outlines: Presenter – Amanda-Grace Schultz/Amethyst Drake. Turn your 1 sentence story idea into an outline for your next book. This hands on workshop is appropriate for writers at all stages and levels, plotters, pantsers, and everyone in between. Will include time to put the outlining technique into practice.
Pantheism and Theology in Fantasy: Presenter – A.P. Zenk. Exploring how these concepts are considered within the genre and offer guidance for authors interested in integrating faith-based systems into their works
Pitch to an Agent Session: Presenter – Cherry Weiner. Get your manuscripts noticed. Deliver a compelling 3-5 min pitch that will effectively capture the agent’s attention and make a strong first impression. There will be a sign-up at the registration counter for those interested. Slots will fill up fast, so I suggest signing up as early as you can.
Songwriting Secrets: Where Craft Meets Magic: Presenter – Micki Fuhrman. Join award-winning Nashville songwriter Micki Fuhrman as she analyzes the elements of a great song and shares methods for writing your own lyrics and melodies.
Writing the Past: How to Create Believable Historical Fiction: Presenter – Vonn McKee. Fiction writer Vonn McKee discusses writing in the “cracks between the facts.” Or, how to balance accuracy with creativity. She will share tips on finding inspiration, research resources, and deep storytelling methods.
New Panel Added:
Writing Hopepunk SF: Moderator – Adam Gaffen. This is an underrecognized and underappreciated genre. We will discuss the origin of Hopepunk, some of the current books that represent it well, and why it’s necessary despite other related forms like Solarpunk, Noble Bright, and Utopian fiction.
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