Kollaborativ Schreiben I: “Audiofictional Experiment”

“Audiofictional Experiment”
Reading and talk with Harlan Guthrie and Nebiha Guiga

Audio fiction and audio drama—works of fiction written for the radio or for podcasts—have a growing audience on podcast apps. Such formats allow for experiments in narrative forms, particularly in genre fiction. One of these experiments, the horror podcast Malevolent, written, performed, and produced by Canadian writer Harlan Guthrie, plays with audience interaction. Each week, at the end of an episode, listeners are given the choice between several options to decide where the story should go next.

Harlan Guthrie will join us online and discuss audience participation in an interactive manner. The audience will get the chance to listen to a story written especially for this event and decide where the characters go next, debating choices and their consequences.

Harlan Guthrie is a Canadian writer, editor, director, sound designer, musician, and voice actor. He is the creator of Malevolent, a Lovecraftian horror audio drama that has been downloaded over 5 million times and ranked second in the 2021 Discover Pods awards.

The admission is free, no registration required.

Kollaborativ Schreiben (Writing Collaboratively)

How to write collaboratively? Who is collaborating? And what new roles do text and writing tools play in this process? The series “Writing Collaboratively” is dedicated to different forms and formats of literary collaboration—between authors and readers, artists or musicians, but also between humans and machines.

The series is organized by the working group Contemporary Literature at the ZfL in collaboration with Technische Universität Berlin.

Fig. above: © Harlan Guthrie