A packed day of talks and conversations featuring some of the most compelling and fascinating voices in Fantasy writing and art.

In-person tickets for this event are now sold out. Tickets can still be booked to watch the sessions online by booking an online day pass. They may be watched on the British Library platform either live or within 48 hours on catch up. Viewing links will be sent out shortly before the event.

Single session tickets may also be available for in-person attendance.

Also taking place on Saturday 9 December is Board Games Fest at the British Library (URL to event page) the wonderful world of tabletop games, in the British Library Entrance Hall. This is a free event but booking is required.

FANTASY WORLDS PROGRAMME:

11:00 - 12:00 Fantasy Worlds: Fantasy Maps
Cartographies of the imagination. With speakers including Charles Vess in conversation with Travis Elborough.

12:30 - 13:30 Fantasy Worlds: Mary Shelley, uprisings and rebellions
How Frankenstein paved the way for generations of marginalised voices in fiction

14:00 - 15:00 Fantasy Worlds: Visualising Fantasy
Brian and Wendy Froud and Alan Lee in conversation with Terri Windling

15:30 - 16:30 Fantasy Worlds: Rebecca F. Kuang in conversation
The award-winning author of The Poppy War trilogy, Babel and Yellowface in conversation with Saara El-Arifi

17:00 - 18:15 Fantasy Worlds: World Building in Fantasy
Ellen Kushner and Adrian Tchaikovsky with Matthew Sangster


This event accompanies the British Library exhibition Fantasy: Realms of Imagination 27 October – 25 February supported by Wayland Games and Unwin Charitable Trust:



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