Narrative Futures

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Better narratives for a better future.An interactive podcast featuring interviews with leading authors and editors in the speculative genre and writing prompts designed to support the imagination of better futures.Narrative Futures is the capstone podcast project of the Futures Thinking network at TORCH. Devised, recorded and edited by Chelsea Haith, the Narrative Futures podcast features eight interviews with some of the mosts important authors and editors working in the the speculative genre today. At the end of each interview, novelist and creative writing tutor Louis Greenberg presents two writing prompts which are designed to support engaged thought and creative imagination about the interview and the listener's own creative practice in narrative building.Interviewed on the podcast are Lauren Beukes, Mohale Mashigo, Sami Shah, Mahvesh Murad, Jared Shurin, EJ Swift, Ken Liu, and Tade Thompson. Each interview explores writing strategies, hopes and fears for the future, opinions on genre fiction and tackles questions such as: How do you conceive of and write time? Why is alien invasion a good metaphor for colonialism? What would a benevolent AI look like? What kind of representation is needed in the speculative genre? Are the old stories of future worlds still relevant? How do we integrate the present pandemic into our future imaginaries?

Recent Episodes
  • Episode 8 - Telling stories: Psychoanalysis and alien invasion
    Nov 30, 2020 – 38:47
  • Episode 7 - National myth: Rewriting America and China
    Nov 23, 2020 – 43:41
  • Episode 6 - Climate fiction: Content dictates form
    Nov 19, 2020 – 35:04
  • Episode 5 - Kitschies, indies, and ads: Juggling narrative forms
    Nov 12, 2020 – 37:27
  • Episode 4: Short stories are short: Edit for meaning
    Nov 5, 2020 – 33:23
  • Episode 3 - People like me: Speculation in Pakistan
    Oct 23, 2020 – 35:24
  • Episode 2 - Afrofuturism: For who?
    Oct 22, 2020 – 32:58
  • Episode 1 - Pandemic writing: How close is too close?
    Oct 14, 2020 – 36:40
  • Narrative Futures Coming Soon
    Sep 28, 2020 – 01:41
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