Speculative Fiction
Your story is a piece of narrative fiction that is either set in the real world and contains fantastical happenings, depicts an alternate version of our world, or is set in a completely separate world with its own logic. As such, speculative fiction includes popular sub-genres such as Magical Realism, Surrealism, Fabulism, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Dystopian, Steampunk and Fairytale. Angela Carter, Jules Verne, Margaret Atwood, Philip Pullman and Ursula K. Le Guin are authors of note within these sub-genres.
Our inaugural Finding Your Voice online writing course begins in January 2022, and we're working with the Arts Council of Northern Ireland to make...
Authors and creative tutors Natalie Young and Alex Hammond reveal the books they'll be referring to during Find Your Voice, our online...
1. Mix Existing Genres to Create Something New Aspiring (or even published) writers worry about mixing genres, in case it makes the work hard to...