Dr Kevan Manwaring
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Dr Kevan Manwaring
@bardicacademic.bsky.social
Prize-winning author, speaker, & lecturer. Course Leader (MA Creative Writing, Arts University Bournemouth). Research: Fantasy and Ecocriticism. Editor of the BFS Journal. #BBC #Routledge #Palgrave #TheBritishLibrary #TheHistoryPress #LittleToller
‘THRUTOPIA: Why Neither Dystopias Nor Utopias Are Enough To Get Us Through The Climate Crisis, And How A ‘Thrutopia’ Could Be’ Rupert Read, Huffington Post 2017: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/.../thrutopi....
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November 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Conditions of Entry:
· The subject title of your email: SUBMISSION: GOLDENDARK ANTHOLOGY
· The file name should be as follows: SURNAME_INITIAL_TITLE_GOLDENDARK ANTHOLOGY_DATE
· Deadline for submissions: 30th April 2026.
Send to: kevanmanwaring[at]yahoo[dot]co[dot]uk
November 3, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Goldendark criteria:
*Chiaroscuro.
*An interrogative sense of realism.
*Embracing the difficulty of representation.
*Slaying the monomyth.
*Immanence.
*Ambiguity.
*The re-enchantment of language.
*Redemptive causality
(Manwaring, 2018)
FFI see the blog on our website: www.goldendark.co.uk
www.goldendark.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 12:26 PM
These can be tales of speculative fiction, science fiction, fantasy, weird, or even horror – as long as there is a glimmer of hope at the end of it all (what we call ‘Goldendark’).
November 3, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Goldendark is looking for astounding short fiction for the forthcoming anthology of thrutopian fiction. So, not bland utopias or predictable dystopias, but stories that offer a ‘way through’ the multiple challenges we face (what has been called the ‘Age of Polycrisis’).
November 3, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The only obscene thing here is the act of censorship itself, intellectually kneecapping a generation. Welcome to the Age of Stupid, aka Trump's Moronocene.
October 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM