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Join award-winning audio drama makers Chris Gregory and Emily Inkpen for fortnightly conversations about world building with some of the best science fiction and fantasy writers around, and find out how their worlds come to life.
Alternative Stories hosts Writing Worlds: Conversations About World Building, a fiction show with 27 episodes published.
Our guest on Writing Worlds today is the brilliant and acclaimed science fiction author Claire North. An incredibly prolific and imaginative writer Claire's novel 'The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August' was nomin
Our guest on Writing Worlds today is the award winning fantasy author Stephen Aryan. With two trilogies: the Age of Darkness, and the Age of Dread set in his world of Mordana to his name , alongside his Persian inspired
On the writing worlds podcast today we are chatting with a speculative fiction author, editor, writing mentor and a dedicated fan of science fiction and fantasy literature. Last year Ren Hutchings released 2 books in an
Our guest on writing worlds this week is one of the biggest names in science fiction. Peter F. Hamilton is the author of many bestselling novels and series , including the Greg Mandel series, the Night’s Dawn trilogy, th
This week on Writing Worlds we are chatting about belief systems with novelist and podcaster MJ Kuhn M.J. Kuhn is a fantasy writer by night and a mild-mannered marketer by day. She is the internationally bestselling auth
Welcome to this bonus episode of Writing Worlds, the podcast about the art of world building with Emily Inkpen and Chris Gregory. For this episode, we're continuing our chat with award-winning novelist Gareth L. Powell a
Our guest on the Writing Worlds podcast this week is novelist and short fiction writer Jeremy Szal. An author of space opera, fantasy and a genre he calls ‘Space Punk’ , Jeremy is the writer of the three book “Common Sag
Our guest on the Writing Worlds Podcast today is a novelist, short story writer, prize winning audio dramatist, presenter of the Spotlight Indie YouTube channel and a part time robot. Frasier Armitage is the author of se
Our guest on the Writing Worlds Podcast today is the bestselling and award winning novelist, poet and academic C.J. Cooke. C.J.'s novels including the acclaimed 'The Lighthouse Witches' 'The Nesting' and 'The Ghost Woods
Our guest on the Writing Worlds podcast this week is novelist, short story author, game writer and live action role playing game organiser and player, Stewart Hotston. Stewart’s novel 'The Entropy of Loss' was a finalist
Our guest on the Writing Worlds podcast this week is novelist and musician Alexandra Beaumont. Alex’s fantasy is inspired by folklore, mythology, history and the coastline of Cornwall in the far south west of England. He
Thank you for listening to the Writing Worlds Podcast with Emily Inkpen and Chris Gregory. Today on Writing Worlds we are honoured to be joined by novelist, short story writer and publisher Gareth L Powell. Gareth is a d
Thank you for joining us for this review of season one of Writing Worlds with hosts Emily Inkpen and Chris Gregory. To hear our bonus content please join us on Patreon here https://www.patreon.com/AltStories You ca
Thank you for listening to the Writing Worlds Podcast with Emily Inkpen and Chris Gregory. In this episode we feature Arthur C. Clarke Award winning novelist, Chris Beckett. The author of 9 critically acclaimed novels an
Thank you for listening to the Writing Worlds Podcast with Emily Inkpen and Chris Gregory. In this episode we feature author illustrator and podcaster Adrian M Gibson. Adrian's novel "Mushroom Blues' explores a world in
Thank you for listening to the Writing Worlds Podcast with Emily Inkpen and Chris Gregory. In this episode we feature author Tim Hardie and voice actor and audio book reader RJ Bayley. Tim and RJ talk about the creation
Thank you for listening to the Writing Worlds Podcast with Emily Inkpen and Chris Gregory. In this episode we feature multi-award-winning novelist, poet and academic Arkady Martine. You can find out more about Arkady by
Thank you for listening to the Writing Worlds Podcast with Emily Inkpen and Chris Gregory. Join our Patreon here https://www.patreon.com/AltStories In this episode we feature multi-award-winning novelist Joanne Harris. W
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Gareth L Powell
award-winning science fiction author
2 appearances on this show
Jeremy Szal
author of The Common Trilogy
1 appearance on this show
Arkady Martine
author of A Memory Called Empire
1 appearance on this show
Joanne Harris
1 appearance on this show
Ben Aaronovitch
author of the Rivers of London series
1 appearance on this show
Premee Mohamed
author of The Annual Migration of Clouds
1 appearance on this show
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Sci-fi author
1 appearance on this show
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