Below you’ll find all of the Lit Fest 2025 two-day intensives and craft seminars and workshops. Classes with a strikethrough are sold out.
Updated Friday, June 13, 2025
Two-Day Intensives
June 12-13, 4:00-7:00 PM MDT (Virtual)
TWO-DAY INTENSIVE: THE PROBLEM WITH EVIL (Virtual) (Two spots left)
John Cotter
With so much real-life villainy afoot, with readers turning to books both for solace and for answers, questions about writing satisfying villains feel urgent as ever. Let’s have a look at what successful stories have done, and how they've done it, and let's try a bunch of exercises together to make an old problem new.
Craft Seminars
Friday, June 13
Afternoon Session (1:30-3:30 PM MDT)
IN THE TRENCHES WITH HISTORICAL FICTION with Terri LewisA CIRCLE IS GOD SAYING YES: STRATEGIES FOR RETHINKING REVISION with Eduardo Corral- HOW TO PUBLISH A BOOK WHILE STAYING (REASONABLY) SANE with Jenny Shank
FINDING THE AGENCY IN YOUR MEMOIR with Anna Qu- WRITING FAMILY MEMBERS AS CHARACTERS with Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
- TAKING IT OFF THE NOSE: USING DIALOGUE TO SHOW CONFLICT AND DEVELOP CHARACTER with Karen Auvinen (Virtual— Four spots left)
- DETAILS THAT MATTER with William Haywood Henderson (Three spots left)
- MAKING THE PERSONAL UNIVERSAL: FIVE WAYS TO CONNECT YOUR STORY TO A WIDER AUDIENCE with Gina DeMillo Wagner (Spots added!)