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Course description
In this mischievous and practical four-hour workshop on speculative fiction, award-winning novelist and short story writer Leone Ross offers over thirty years’ experience of playing with ‘the weird’. Through mini-lectures, group discussion and creative writing exercises, we’ll discuss the requirements, limits and possibilities of horror, magical realism and fantasy writing, and examine the powerful ways these genres can, and have always, acted as a mouthpiece for urgent ideas. Finally and uniquely, participants will be guided through the process of planning, and writing the first draft of, a complete speculative fiction short story.
About the tutor
Leone Ross FRSL is a fiction writer, editor and educator. Her third novel, This One Sky Day was nominated for the Women's Prize, the Goldsmiths prize, and the Ondaatje prize, among others, and named a New York Times Editors Choice. Her first short story collection, Come Let Us Sing Anyway, prompted the TLS to call her “a master of detail.” In 2021, she won the Manchester Prize For Fiction for a single short story. She has taught variously for Cardiff University, Roehampton University, Goldsmiths University, the City Literary Institute, the University Of The West Indies, the Faber Academy and the Arvon Foundation. Ross is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Higher Education Academy. She has edited nine collections of short stories, most recently Glimpse: A Black British Anthology Of Speculative Fiction.