Tade Thompson explores alien invasion as a metaphor for colonialism and discusses the importance of psychoanalysis and self-awareness in the building of personal and group identities.

Episode 8 - Telling stories: Psychoanalysis and alien invasion

Nov 30th, 2020 38m 47s

Tade Thompson explores alien invasion as a metaphor for colonialism and discusses the importance of psychoanalysis and self-awareness in the building of personal and group identities.

Episode 7 - National myth: Rewriting America and China

Nov 23rd, 2020 43m 41s

Ken Liu discusses the power of myth in the construction of national narratives and the revisionist work that epic fantasy can do to rewrite them, drawing on the weight of time as omnipresent to narrative intent.

Episode 7 - National myth: Rewriting America and China (Transcript)

Nov 23rd, 2020

Episode 6 - Climate fiction: Content dictates form

Nov 19th, 2020 35m 4s

EJ Swift describes her deep time speculative approach to climate fiction and the effect of content on form in speculative nested or fragmented narratives.

Episode 5 - Kitschies, indies, and ads: Juggling narrative forms

Nov 12th, 2020 37m 27s

Jared Shurin explores his wide-ranging interests from anthologising speculative shorts to the Kitschies Awards to ethical advertising for revisioning global narratives.

Episode 6 - Climate fiction: Content dictates form

Nov 9th, 2020 35m 4s

EJ Swift describes her deep time speculative approach to climate fiction and the effect of content on form in speculative nested or fragmented narratives.

Episode 4: Short stories are short: Edit for meaning

Nov 5th, 2020 33m 23s

Mahvesh Murad discusses the work of curating and editing anthologies of speculative short fiction, ethically, refusing the word 'diversity' for doing too little, too late.

Episode 3 - People like me: Speculation in Pakistan

Oct 23rd, 2020 35m 24s

Sami Shah ranges over his radio, comedy and burgeoning literary career, and describes how he has to write himself into the speculative fiction space.

Episode 2 - Afrofuturism: For who?

Oct 21st, 2020 32m 58s

Mohale Mashigo describes her relationship with time, imagining a future inflected by apartheid, and her controversial Afrofuturism essay.

Episode 1 - Pandemic writing: How close is too close?

Oct 14th, 2020 36m 40s

Lauren Beukes discusses the proximity of her recent novel Afterland to the current pandemic and how collective action and art are the only way through these difficult times.

Narrative Futures Coming Soon

Sep 28th, 2020 1m 41s

The trailer for the Narrative Futures podcast, devised and produced by Chelsea Haith, featuring interviews with eight authors and editors, and writing prompts by Louis Greenberg.

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