Furnishing Fictional Spaces with Danielle McLaughlin
Info
Date: June 13, 2026
Time: 10.00 am – 1.00 pm
Duration: 1 day (3 Hours)
Level: Intermediate | Beginner |
Cost: €75 (€68 Members)
Location: Online
This course will take place online on Saturday 13 June.
Course Summary
In this workshop we will explore the Furnishing of Fictional Spaces, the role of the writer as interior (and exterior) designer. We will examine the choices writers make when furnishing a character’s surroundings, and the impact of these choices on elements of story.
Course Outline
Participants will be sent links to a number of stories/extracts to read in advance of the workshop, and we will also have a go at one or two short in-workshop writing exercises.
Course Outcomes
Participants will leave with an understanding of the opportunity that the furnishing of a character’s space provides for a fiction writer.
Danielle McLaughlin is the author of a short story collection Dinosaurs on Other Planets published in 2015 by The Stinging Fly Press, and a novel, The Art of Falling, published in 2021 by John Murray. Her awards include the Windham-Campbell Prize, the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award and a Markievicz Award. Her second novel, Ritual, will be published by The Stinging Fly Press in 2026.
