Build Your World: Place, Daily Life & Detail in Fantasy Writing - a Workshop with Anna Smith Spark

Sat Oct 18 2025 at 02:30 pm to 03:30 pm UTC+01:00

Butser Ancient Farm | Waterlooville

Butser Ancient Farm
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Build Your World: Place, Daily Life & Detail in Fantasy Writing - a Workshop with Anna Smith Spark
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Part of Butser Book Festival!
📅 Saturday 18th October (2:30pm – 3:30pm)
🏰 Held inside our atmospheric Saxon meadhall
Join critically acclaimed fantasy author Anna Smith Spark for an interactive workshop exploring how descriptions of setting, daily life, and sensory detail can bring powerful, believable, and magical fantasy worlds to life.
🪄 Learn how to use everyday detail and sensory language to create immersive, lived-in settings.
✍️ Take part in writing exercises designed to spark your imagination and hone your craft.
🤝 Share ideas and insights through group discussion in a welcoming, creative space.
🏰 Experience the magic of building fantasy worlds within the evocative setting of a Saxon meadhall.
📚 Be guided by a multi-award short-listed author hailed as "literary Game of Thrones" (The Sunday Times).
⏱️ Duration: 1 hour
🎟️ £15 per adult ticket
👧 £5 per child ticket (under 14s must be accompanied by a paying adult)
🌍 Suitable for all ages
About Anna:
Anna Smith Spark is a critically acclaimed, multi-award short-listed grimdark epic fantasy novelist. She writes lyrical prose-poetry about war, love, landscapes, and war.
Come and learn how to weave worlds readers will never want to leave. ✨
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