About this Event
We’re often advised to ‘write about what we know’. But what if we want to write about what we don’t know? Imagining future scenarios can help us negotiate a fragile world. Using exercises, discussion and selected texts from poetry and speculative fiction, we’ll look at utopias, dystopias and places between. We’ll consider how to enter and inhabit a future world by asking ‘what if?’ We’ll begin to build up detail and atmosphere, either to map out a novel, a short story or a long poem.
With educator, poet, writer and researcher Gillian Barker.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Write Place, Black Swan Arts, Bridge Street, Frome, UK, United Kingdom
GBP 27.80