12: Fiction

With the publication of 'Alt Future' in 2005, QueenSpark took a foray into fiction with a book featuring local people’s creative imaginings of a future Brighton & Hove.

'Alt-Future' includes a vision of text-messaging in 2045, a description of how 'Zero Tolerance' might operate on the city’s streets in the not-too-distant future, through to a sci-fi 'DownsLand Experience'…

Also published in 2005, its companion work 'Alt-History' features past 'histories' of Brighton & Hove, providing a glimpse into an alternative world, highlighting eccentric and heroic people from the Brighton area.

For both books the entries were judged and edited before publication.

Fiction was not a new venture for QueenSpark. We have long recognised the enjoyment and personal satisfaction that can be gained from creative writing.

'From Circle to Spiral' (1995) is the product of a QueenSpark writing group consisting of seven women who spent two hours per week exchanging ideas and writing together in a mutually supportive environment. It can be viewed as a testament to the positive benefits that can be gained through the medium of creative writing.

'On the Writing Trail' (1999), a diverse anthology of short stories, allowed people who might not otherwise have classified themselves as authors to see their creativity find an outlet through the publication of their work.

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