MARGOT MCGOVERN

Design a Dungeon

Years 5-8

An interactive workshop which ‘gamifies’ the narrative design process and gives students the foundations of a story that they can later develop into a fully realised narrative.

Participants will discuss three-act narrative structure and map out a corresponding three-room, D&D-style ‘dungeon’, complete with an escalating series of obstacles, encounters and rewards, leading to a final boss fight.

Crafting Scare Machines

Years 7-11

An interactive horror writing workshop, ideal for students in Years 7-11. Participants will discuss how horror offers a ‘safe’ space for exploring real-world fears and anxieties by reimagining those concerns in fantastical ways. Building from this discussion, participants will design a ‘scare machine’ combining a chosen fear, an unsettling setting and a big bad for an unlikely hero to survive. These ‘scare machines’ serve as a blueprint that participants can later develop into a fully realised narrative.