What is it to make a world – and why is storytelling important?

How do writers and artists make worlds and imagine new possibilities?

At this talk, chaired by Susanna Davies-Crook, featuring guest speakers Season Butler, Chloe Aridjis, Sarah Shin, Sammy Lee and Siri Rodnes, we explore feminist, queer and speculative strategies for envisioning how we might re-make our world through storytelling, gaming and film. 

The panel discusses Steering the Craft – Ursula K. Le Guin’s carrier bag of the tools of a writer’s craft: how, and why, to write – and the surrealist dream worlds of Leonora Carrington and Chloe Aridjis.

Sammy Lee and Sarah Shin will present an overview of their mythical game world, Mirror: The Mountain. With non-linear storytelling inspired by the archetypes of tarot, the game delves into themes of memory, mythology, and the entanglement of mind and cosmos.

Writer and Director Siri Rodnes will present in relation to their film Nine Lives based on the science fiction short story by Ursula K. Le Guin.