Writer in Residence Workshop: Creating the World of Your Story

Setting, or where and when a story takes place, acts on the characters. It’s where they live their lives, and the author had better know all about it, its rules, how it looks, who else lives there. The characters are going to move naturally through their world without thinking about it, just like we do in our own world. We will study ways to create as authentic a world for the story as possible in order to engage and involve the reader.  Presented by Writer in Residence Donis Casey.

Donis Casey is the author of the Alafair Tucker Mysteries, a historical mystery series, set in Oklahoma in the booming 1910s, featuring a sleuthing mother of ten children. She has twice won the Arizona Book Award for her series and was a finalist for the Willa Award and the Oklahoma Book Award. Her first novel, The Old Buzzard Had It Coming, was named an Oklahoma Centennial Book.  Donis is a former teacher, academic librarian, and entrepreneur. She was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and now lives in Tempe, Arizona.