Exploring Genre: Understanding Dystopia with Jeanette O’Hagan

In this month’s cross-post with Christian Writers Downunder, Jeanette O’Hagan explores the history of dystopian fiction, and current trends. What is Dystopia? An imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-apocalyptic. – Oxford Dictionaries Dystopia is the opposite of utopia, a word invented by …

Exploring Genre – Round Up

In 2019, we are continuing the tradition of a cross-post between Christian Writers Downunder (CWD) and Australasian Christian Writers (ACW), exploring genre. You may wonder if, after two years, there are any more genres to explore. Well, yes, there are. In fact we haven’t come close to covering them all. But before we launch into …