Getting Started with Speculative Fiction
Getting started with exploring the concept of speculative fiction
Interested in learning all there is to know about speculative fiction? This introductory instructional course offers everything you need to get started!
Speculative fiction gives readers an imagined place where we can find a psychological getaway from the confronting matters of the every day.
In this three-hour course from award-winning, genre-bending author Eugen Bacon, you will learn:
- what exactly speculative fiction is
- the core ideas around world-building
- genres and subgenres of speculative fiction including fantasy, science fiction, horror and the paranormal
- the critical and cultural perspectives reflected in many speculative fiction texts
This course is suitable for anybody wishing to creatively explore speculative fiction and all that it encompasses.
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Course level: Aspiring, Emerging and Developing
Writing NSW members receive a $20 discount. Contact Writing NSW for your discount code. Not a member? Join here.
Your Instructor
Eugen Bacon, MA, MSc, PhD, is an African Australian author of several novels and collections. She’s a British Fantasy Award winner, a twice World Fantasy Award finalist, and a finalist in the Shirley Jackson, Philip K. Dick, Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, and the Nommo Awards for speculative fiction by Africans. Eugen is an Otherwise Fellow, and was also announced in the honor list for ‘doing exciting work in gender and speculative fiction’. Danged Black Thing made the Otherwise Award Honor List as a ‘sharp collection of Afro-Surrealist work’. She’s an Adjunct Fellow at the University of Tasmania, and a 2024 Hedberg Writer-in-Residence. Visit her at eugenbacon.com.