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Our job as writers is to create emotion in our readers. We aren’t trying to reveal what our characters are feeling, but rather to make our readers feel right along with them, and to believe in the characters and their world. This workshop explains what concrete, significant details are, and how to use them to make your reader feel as though they’re dreaming with eyes wide open.Through a combination of lecture, examples from famous writers, and in-class writing exercises, participants can expect to come away with a thorough understand of how to use this essential  writer’s tool. (Handouts will be sent to registered students

Lauren B. Davis is the author of EVEN SO (Dundurn Press 2021). Her other works include THE GRIMOIRE OF KENSINGTON MARKET, named “One of the Best Books of the Year” by the Globe & Mail; AGAINST A DARKENING SKY, a novel set in 7th c. Northumbria, which Pulitzer-prize winning author Robert Olen Butler called, “the ideal for a historical novel,” and the bestselling novel, THE EMPTY ROOM, named one of the “Best Books of the Year” by The National Post, and the Winnipeg Free Press. Her previous novel, OUR DAILY BREAD, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and named as one of the “Best Books of the Year” by The Globe & Mail and The Boston Globe. She is also the author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed novels, THE RADIANT CITY, a finalist for the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize; and THE STUBBORN SEASON, a named as one of the Top 15 Bestselling First Novels by Amazon.ca and Books in Canada. She was born in Montreal, lived in France for ten years and now lives with her husband, Ron, and their dog, Bailey-the-Rescuepoo, in Princeton, New Jersey. For more information, please visit her website at: www.laurenbdavis.com