Join a practical, focused weekend intensive designed for novelists, screenwriters and playwrights who want to sharpen their horror craft using the atmospheric, history-steeped setting of Old Louisville. This workshop brings together writers working in prose and film to exchange techniques, develop stronger scenes, and learn how to make setting itself feel like a character.

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What you’ll take away

  • Stronger sensory writing: Learn methods to deploy sound, smell, texture, and temperature to create immediate, immersive dread.

  • Scene-level structure for horror: Use tension arcs, pacing beats, and micro-reversals to ensure every scene builds toward a lasting emotional hit.

  • Cross-form techniques: Adapt cinematic tools (shot selection, rhythm, show-don’t-tell visuality) to prose, and apply literary techniques (interior focalization, unreliable narrators) to screenplays.

  • Setting as character: Use Old Louisville’s architecture, seasonal light, and layered history to anchor mood and motive; extract evocative details that serve plot and theme rather than decorative description.

  • Collaborative revision practice: Give and receive targeted feedback with other writers to refine scares, deepen stakes, and tighten language.

  • Practical prompts and templates: Leave with scene templates, sensory checklists, and rewriting prompts tailored to horror.

A floral tea cup filled with black coffee, placed on a matching floral saucer, beside an open book and a floral patterned tea pot on a satin cloth.
A cozy, vintage-style living room with dark wooden furniture, an upholstered armchair with plaid pillows, and a window with wrought iron bars and greenery outside.
A bedroom with a large window having floral curtains. A framed picture hangs on the wall above a wooden dresser. The bed is made with a white quilt, and a fan with flowers is partially visible on the right side, next to a vintage-looking armchair wit
A large tree with extensive branches and green leaves in front of a historic building with a tall pointed roof and ornate architecture.

This workshop combines rigorous craft instruction with place-based inspiration so you leave able to write scenes that haunt—scenes readers and viewers feel in their bones long after the last line.

Who should attend?

  • Novelists working on psychological, supernatural, or gothic horror.

  • Screenwriters adapting horror novels or developing original screenplay material.

  • Playwrights seeking to improve action and blocking to their dialogue heavy medium.

  • Writers looking to improve atmospheric description, tension, and cross-form storytelling.

Close-up of a tall, old tree with a thick, textured trunk covered in large, knobby protrusions. There are various documents and graffiti on the trunk, with some writings visible near the bottom. The background shows a building with brick walls and balconies, as well as green leafy branches and a clear blue sky.
A room with ornate furniture and decor, including a wooden writing desk with decorative figurines, a cushioned armchair, large window with elaborate curtains, and artwork on the dark walls.

    • A horror story idea or pages to workshop

    • Comfortable Walking Shoes and weather appropriate jacket

    • A laptop or notebook and pen

  • Still yet to be determined exact time and place, but there will be short workshops on how to amplify horror and dread in your writing followed by time to write.

    Haunted Walk & Write: short guided walks through Old Louisville to collect sensory notes.

    Sharing writing among peers and mentors for clear and helpful feedback.

    Rewriting exercises focused on tightening stakes and clarifying cause-and-effect.

  • This weekend intensive is coming soon.

Haunted Typewriter Party

Turn your best ghost encounters into haunted writing!

Spots are very limited due to the amount of rooms available in a Victorian Bed & Breaksfast.

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