Decolonial Worldbuilding in Science-Fiction and Fantasy
NEW DATE: Saturday, September 21st, 2024 @ 4PM – 10 PM UTC (click here to convert to your timezone)
Can’t make the live webinar? Register to get the recording after!
Where: Online over Zoom
Price: 50 – 125 USD (Scholarships available!)
Genre fiction, like sci-fi and fantasy, are often places where we expect to find escapism; but assumptions around race, the status quo, and colonialism regularly leak into these fictional worlds. Annoyingly, this can happen even when the creator themselves doesn’t want it to!
This one-day workshop with instructor Helen Gould will help writers to identify and challenge the common tropes they might automatically be relying on when creating fictional worlds. In the first half, you’ll explore foundational literary theories about colonisation and its impact on culture; in the second half, you’ll look at how decolonial thinking can apply to the creative process and inspire different kinds of worlds.
Please note that this class will be recorded.
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