Till We Have Fiction
– Reading and Writing as World-Builders
The 8th Annual Raggant Fiction Festival was held Saturday, March 23rd, 2024. We considered both how to analyze and participate in world-building from a Christian worldview with keynote speaker Christine Cohen, director of the Camperdown Program at New Saint Andrews College and author of The Winter King and Sinking City .
Find links and more info about Mrs. Cohen at her website here.
Talks:
- Session 1 – Sean Higgins: Plotting Imaginative Coordinates: On the Making of a Fully Ready Non-Fiction Rumpus
- Session 2 – Christine Cohen: Ungit’s Thousand Faces: tracing the literary influences and philosophical traditions in Till We Have Faces
- Session 3 – Christine Cohen: Holy Places are Dark Places: a study of Lewis’ worldbuilding and the strength of an unreliable narrator
- Writer’s Workshop with Christine Cohen: how to craft a consistent, incarnate world and plant characters that grow naturally from that soil.
- Q & A with Christine
Reread about the history of the Festival here.
Previous Festivals:
- 2015 First Raggant Fiction Festival – featuring Douglas Bond
- 2016 Fiction as a Political Weapon – featuring Douglas Bond
- 2018 Character Development
- 2019 Fiction Up and Fiction In – featuring Bekah Merkle
- 2021 From Marysville to Middle Earth and Back Again – featuring C.R. Wiley
- 2022 Monumental Myths
- 2023 Why Christians Shouldn’t Be Nice – featuring Douglas Wilson
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