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03 — Edited, publishing 2027
Forthcoming Collection
Curating a collection of essays and interviews about the future of narrative — from established writers to emerging voices in literary culture.
The idea
Every generation declares narrative dead or reborn; this collection ignores the obituary cycle and asks practitioners instead. Novelists, reporters, game writers, oral historians, and one very funny archivist each answer the same brief: show us where stories are going by showing us your desk.
The result is deliberately mixed in register — reported essays beside craft notes beside arguments — because that is what narrative actually looks like from the inside.
Scope and shape
Inside the volume
- Sixteen commissioned pieces, half from writers publishing in book form for the first time.
- Four dialogues pairing an established voice with an emerging one.
- A craft appendix: working methods, revision rituals, and rejected outlines.
- An introduction tracing narrative's last three supposed deaths — and survivals.
Timeline
Commissions
Briefs issued, contributors confirmed, first drafts in by autumn.
Editing
Developmental edits through winter; dialogues recorded in spring.
Publication
Spring publication with a launch tour of independent bookshops.
For booksellers and festivals
Tour planning for spring 2027 is open now. Bookshops, libraries, and festivals interested in hosting contributors — individually or as a panel — should write early; the calendar fills in commission order.
Book the tour
Spring 2027 dates for shops, libraries, and festivals. Write to hold one.