I’ve long dreamt of creating a makerspace, but for storytelling. Last night that happened with the launch of my new UC Irvine Story Lab program, which brings students together to learn about and practice with the tools involved in telling tales. Looking forward to watching the lab grow!

The website where I publish my stories (Substack) just let me know that my little Phoenix & Cricket publication is now on the top 100 list (#89) of all their literary publications. In the spirit of celebrating victories...yay! lucasvanwykjoel.substack.com

What if you opened your front door only to find a ship waiting to take you to unknown lands. Would you climb aboard? I dance with this idea in ‘Tafelberg,’ a fairy tale I wrote while on the slopes of Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa. lucasvanwykjoel.substack.com/p/tafelberg

‘Thank you, Ed Ricketts’ is a personal essay about how art in the form of writing helped me see the world in an utterly new light. I hope it shifts things in you in a goodly kind of way. Yours, LVWJ

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First post here, a little fiction about a mountain that’s actually a ship.