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Future Tense: The Thrill of Speculative Fiction

A Humanities Washington Speakers Bureau presentation.

Tara Campbell empowers participants to start imagining and writing with a brief history and definitions of speculative fiction in this hybrid lecture and interactive writing workshop

In this hybrid lecture and interactive writing workshop, audiences will learn a brief history and definitions of speculative fiction—an umbrella term that encompasses the genres of science fiction, fantasy, space opera, supernatural, horror, etc. We’ll then engage in writing exercises to give participants an opportunity to write in the genre, starting with a warm-up prompt before tackling questions about how issues like climate change, genetic manipulation, or artificial intelligence might affect them in the decades to come. 

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