Humber Masterclasses

World-building

Siddhartha Deb

4:00pm

Sunday, October 1, 2023

90 mins

Learn how to craft compelling stories and bring captivating characters to life through hands-on lessons from acclaimed authors and industry experts.

World-building for Literary Fiction

Genre writers take world-building very seriously, and so should writers of literary fiction. World-building, the world your characters move in, is crucial if your fiction is to be an immersive experience for the reader. It is also one of the ways you show your distinctiveness as a writer; two brilliant writers portraying the same city will produce two distinct cities. Finally, world-building is of ethical urgency in the age of the Anthropocene, which demands that we notice the environments we have created and that we move in.

In this 90-minute creative writing masterclass, acclaimed author Siddhartha Deb will provide a choice of short story writing prompts that will urge you to do some word-building, and facilitate a discussion of the work produced and of word-building in the work of published writers. All writing levels welcome.

Presented by TIFA in partnership with the Humber School for Writers.

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How to attend

$49

Learn how to craft compelling stories and bring captivating characters to life through hands-on lessons from acclaimed authors and industry experts.

World-building for Literary Fiction

Presented by TIFA in partnership with the Humber School for Writers.

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Siddhartha Deb

Siddhartha Deb was born in northeastern India and lives in Harlem, New York. He is the author of the novels The Point of Return, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and An Outline of the Republic, longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. His non-fiction book, The Beautiful and the Damned, was a finalist for the Orwell Prize and received the PEN Open award. Deb’s journalism and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Republic, n+1, The Nation and Dissent.