Join award-winning audio drama makers Chris Gregory and Emily Inkpen for fortnightly conversations about world building with some of the best science fiction and fantasy writers around, and find out how their worlds come to life.
Welcome to our end-of-season 2 review episode. Join Emily Inkpen and Chris Gregory for a look back at our guests and world building topics for the season and the announcement of our overall winners in our stoically fun games The Name Game and Would You Rather?
We would like to thank all of our brilliant guests for giving us their time and expertise in all the episodes of season 2. If you enjoyed these episodes please check them out, follow them on social media and buy copies of their books.
You can find out more about all of our guests and episodes here https://www.emilyinkpen.com/writing-worlds-pod
You can hear bonus content from many of our Writing Worlds guests by joining our Patreon at the Gold Tier or above. There we have exclusive bonus content from many of our Writing Worlds Season One episodes with many more from season two coming soon. Click the link to find out more. https://www.patreon.com/AltStories
Writing Worlds is created and presented by Emily Inkpen and Chris Gregory of the audio production company Alternative Stories
Find out more about Emily and her work by visiting her website here https://www.emilyinkpen.com/
Listen to The Dex Legacy and Wasteland, Emily’s award-winning audio drama series here https://www.emilyinkpen.com/thedexlegacy-home/
And follow Emily on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/emilyinkpen/
And Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/emilyinkpen.bsky.social
You can purchase a copy of Emily Inkpen's book "The Dex Legacy: Season Two Scripts and Commentary" by searching for Emily Inkpen in your local Amazon store
Find out more about Chris Gregory and Alternative Stories here https://linktr.ee/AlternativeStories
Follow them on Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/stories.alt/
And Bluesky here https://bsky.app/profile/storiesalt.bsky.social
If you would like to get in touch with the show to recommend a guest for a future episode or to book a Writing Worlds live show for your convention or literary event please contact us via office@alternativestories.com
Writing Worlds is free to listen to but not free to make. If you would like to support the show you can join our Patreon to get ad-free and early release episodes of this and all our other shows. We will also be releasing a series of Writing Worlds mini and bonus episodes featuring many of the guests you have heard in this series and our hosts Emily and Chris exclusively for our Patreon backers. Click the link below to find out more. https://www.patreon.com/AltStories
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5 Aug 2026
Claire North: The Ethics Of World Building
Our guest on Writing Worlds today is the brilliant and acclaimed science fiction author Claire North. An incredibly prolific and imaginative writer Claire's novel 'The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August' was nominated for the Arthur C Clarke award and won the John W Campbell memorial award for best science fiction. Topically, given the recent release of a certain movie, Claire has based a number of their novels in the world of Ancient Greece and specifically based on the work of Homer. They have also written space opera and have a other writing lives as Catherine Webb and as Kate Griffin under which name they write fantasy.
You can find out more about Claire and their work and buy copies of their books by visiting their website here https://www.clairenorth.com/
You can follow Claire on Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/clairenorth_author/
Follow Claire and listen to their books on Spotify here https://open.spotify.com/author/23iuaspGzKtq0xWHKu5Wsp?si=e5a1ba9acfa845d5
You can hear bonus content from many of our Writing Worlds guests by joining our Patreon at the Gold Tier or above. There we have exclusive bonus content from many of our Writing Worlds Season One episodes with many more from season two coming soon. Click the link to find out more. https://www.patreon.com/AltStories
Writing Worlds is created and presented by Emily Inkpen and Chris Gregory of the audio production company Alternative Stories
Find out more about Emily and her work by visiting her website here https://www.emilyinkpen.com/
Listen to The Dex Legacy and Wasteland, Emily’s award-winning audio drama series here https://www.emilyinkpen.com/thedexlegacy-home/
And follow Emily on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/emilyinkpen/
And Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/emilyinkpen.bsky.social
You can purchase a copy of Emily Inkpen's book "The Dex Legacy: Season Two Scripts and Commentary" by searching for Emily Inkpen in your local Amazon store
Find out more about Chris Gregory and Alternative Stories here https://linktr.ee/AlternativeStories
Follow them on Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/stories.alt/
And Bluesky here https://bsky.app/profile/storiesalt.bsky.social
If you would like to get in touch with the show to recommend a guest for a future episode or to book a Writing Worlds live show for your convention or literary event please contact us via office@alternativestories.com
Writing Worlds is free to listen to but not free to make. If you would like to support the show you can join our Patreon to get ad-free and early release episodes of this and all our other shows. We will also be releasing a series of Writing Worlds mini and bonus episodes featuring many of the guests you have heard in this series and our hosts Emily and Chris exclusively for our Patreon backers. Click the link below to find out more. https://www.patreon.com/AltStories
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8 Jul 2026
Stephen Aryan: Races
Our guest on Writing Worlds today is the award winning fantasy author Stephen Aryan. With two trilogies: the Age of Darkness, and the Age of Dread set in his world of Mordana to his name , alongside his Persian inspired The Nightingale and The Falcon trilogy. Stephen is not only a prolific author but he has also been prolific in supporting and offering advice to other writers.
You can find out more about Stephen and purchase copies of his books by visiting his website here https://stephen-aryan.com/
You can follow Stephen on Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/stephenaryan_writer/
You can hear bonus content from many of our Writing Worlds guests by joining our Patreon at the Gold Tier or above. There we have exclusive bonus content from many of our Writing Worlds Season One episodes with many more from season two coming soon. Click the link to find out more. https://www.patreon.com/AltStories
Writing Worlds is created and presented by Emily Inkpen and Chris Gregory of the audio production company Alternative Stories
Find out more about Emily and her work by visiting her website here https://www.emilyinkpen.com/
Listen to The Dex Legacy and Wasteland, Emily’s award-winning audio drama series here https://www.emilyinkpen.com/thedexlegacy-home/
And follow Emily on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/emilyinkpen/
And Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/emilyinkpen.bsky.social
You can purchase a copy of Emily Inkpen's book "The Dex Legacy: Season Two Scripts and Commentary" by searching for Emily Inkpen in your local Amazon store
Find out more about Chris Gregory and Alternative Stories here https://linktr.ee/AlternativeStories
Follow them on Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/stories.alt/
And Bluesky here https://bsky.app/profile/storiesalt.bsky.social
If you would like to get in touch with the show to recommend a guest for a future episode or to book a Writing Worlds live show for your convention or literary event please contact us via office@alternativestories.com
Writing Worlds is free to listen to but not free to make. If you would like to support the show you can join our Patreon to get ad-free and early release episodes of this and all our other shows. We will also be releasing a series of Writing Worlds mini and bonus episodes featuring many of the guests you have heard in this series and our hosts Emily and Chris exclusively for our Patreon backers. Click the link below to find out more. https://www.patreon.com/AltStories
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Who has been a guest on Writing Worlds
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Premee Mohamed
Zoe Gilbert
Nicholas Briggs
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Lyndsey Croal
Reach and audience
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YouTube views
18,568
Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
Spotify
5.0 / 5
4 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 33 / 100
A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.
Quality
36
Social presence
0
YouTube
76
Engagement
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