For emerging and intermediate writers already familiar with the art of writing fiction in some form of creative writing, including the short story, novella, novel, poetry, prose poetry—with a basic understanding of writing a beginning, middle and end, writing characters and setting. This workshop is suitable for anyone interested in or already writing speculative fiction.

About this workshop
Fiction can be a figment of your imagination, or a creative response to the world around you. This speculative fiction workshop will invite you to speculate, to reach with your mind towards the infinite boundary, and to craft literary fiction that indulges in conjectural thought.

Learning outcomes
Aims to encourage:

• Familiarity with the basics of speculative fiction, including definitions, worldbuilding, and elements of the fantastical, science or ‘the alternate’, fear, revulsion or spook.
• Confidence to creatively explore a range of techniques and styles in unfamiliar genres, including genre bending.
• The production of work that reflects in-depth understanding of speculative fiction.

Please bring along: pens, notepads, smartphones or tablets for writing as there will be exercises.