Description
Welcome to the first Worldbuilders Workshop! SOLD OUT!
Price Drop / New Dates: 6 sessions | 5 student cap
Jan 20, 27
Feb 3, 10, 17, 24
Classes held in person at 344 Bloor Street West, Toronto.
For writers of sci-fi, historical fiction, fabulism, magical realism, horror, dystopian or speculative fiction, introducing readers to the rules of your world while avoiding clumsy exposition can be a daunting challenge.
We often need to perform less ‘worldbuilding’ than we think we do - but we almost always have to think about information delivery a little differently than our fellow writers working in realism. What can we learn from each other as worldbuilders across genres? How can giving feedback to others make us better editors of our own work?
This is a workshop for fiction writers building worlds of any kind. Work at all stages and in any genre (so long as the world you’re building has different rules than our own) is welcome!
After an initial session of introductions and craft concepts, students will submit and read one another’s work each week. Two students will be workshopped per session, and each student will be workshopped twice throughout the 7 week class. The submission schedule will be assembled in the first session.
Emily Johnson is a graduate of Columbia's MFA Writing Program, where she served as the Fiction Editor for the Columbia Journal, and taught as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Undergraduate Writing Program. She divides her time between Toronto and Brooklyn.
Date & Time
Jan 20, 2026 7:00 p.m. - Feb 24, 2026 8:30 p.m.