The ‘Trick or Treat’ Horror Writing Workshop

It's time to get creepy! This genre-bending workshop will take attendees through the horrors of . . . well . . . writing a horror. Highlighting the psychology of fear, we'll explore common horror tropes in storytelling, the formula for building a chilling tale, and put together a complete story outline for a horror movie (featuring workshop attendees). This interactive session provides teachers with the necessary tools to plan and break a discussion-based story plan. Touching upon principles of storytelling and genre writing, with a horror-infused twist, this interactive workshop is not for the faint of heart!

Target Audience

Secondary

To Bring/Important Notes

Room Requests: Classroom setting, desks / writing surfaces

Sessions

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room E317
Sullivan Heights Secondary School

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Presenter

  • Wordsmith Academy and Andrew Buckley Author
    Andrew Buckley

    Andrew Buckley is a film school-educated writer, which means he’s spent most of his life with no money and a high opinion about bad movies. Sometime around the turn of the century he attended the Vancouver Film School’s Writing for Film and Television program, graduating with excellence. He pitched and developed several screenplay projects for film and television before turning to his chosen career of novel writing (this was due, in part, to his discovery that ‘professional mongoose wrangler’ wasn’t a real profession).


    As a writer, Andrew favors playing in the fantasy and paranormal sandboxes and is drawn to writing with a humorous and satirical slant despite being asked politely on numerous occasions to ‘please stop doing that’.


    As the co-founder and lead instructor at Wordsmith Academy, Andrew speaks to thousands of students each year about storytelling and writing through the delivery of interactive and engaging online and in-person workshops and presentations at schools, writing conferences, and comic cons. 


    At the time you’re reading this, Andrew is busy working on several new stories and attempting to bend time and space to allow for more hours in the day. He now lives happily in the Okanagan Valley, BC with a multitude of characters that dwell comfortably inside of his mind. 


    Andrew is represented by Terrie Wolf of AKA Literary Management.