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Conversations with artists about storytelling

These interview/conversations with artists, about story & storytelling, are accidental podcasts. They're part of a Develop Your Creative Practise process I undertook in 2021-2022, funded by Arts Council England.As part of an exploration of Storytelling, I interviewed artists working across a range of disciplines, about how they work with story, their creative processes & ways of working.Each interviewee introduced me to the next person; creating a chain of conversations across the UK's artistic landscape; from directors & writers, to composters, designers & digital content creators.They're pretty much unedited & contain language, opinions or views that solely reflect the speaker.

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Paul Graham Raven on stories of the future

February 07, 2023 • Karen P • Season 1 • Episode 11

Paul Graham Raven is a writer & critical futures researcher, whose research is concerned with how the stories we tell about times yet to come, shape the lives we end up living.

He is a writer of poetry & fictions, a consulting critical futurist & narrative designer & a literary critic & occasional journalist, with by lines including New Scientist, Wired UK, ARC Magazine & The Guardian.

Published short stories include ‘Facing Kiruna’ in Phase Change; ‘Rust (City) Never Sleeps’ in Riffs Journal; Staunch in Cyber World & Best of British Science Fiction 2016, & ‘Los Piratas del Mar de Plastico’ in Twelve Tomorrows.

This conversation was recorded in June 2022, so some of the references are a little old. It’s pretty much unedited & contain language, opinions or views that solely reflect the speaker.

My next guest in this series of storytelling interviews is designer Becky-Dee Trevenen, making theatre to foster empathy, learning & community.