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Mirror worlds: Fiction has always held up a mirror to reality, but how do you build a secondary world that accurately reflects what you want it to? When you create a new world, you decide what’s normal.
Join moderator Lorraine Wilson and panellists Alexandra Beaumont, Georgia Cook, and Ian Green as they discuss how their beliefs and experiences craft the mirror worlds they write.
Alexandra Beaumont (she/her): Alexandra lives a double life of folklore fantasy and professional tree-hugging. When not haunting gothic moors, she can be found LARPing as a muddy ranger or a forge witch. Her debut, Testament of the Stars, is a gothic romantic fantasy of cults and prophecies. Her folklore fantasies, Dissonance of Bird Song (Indie Press Award Distinguished Favourite) and Ballad of River Bones, are folkloric tales of wyld magics and epic ancient world mysteries. Find out more about Alexandra on her website. Follow her Substack or connect on Instagram, Threads, TikTok, Facebook or Bluesky. Grab a copy of Alexandra’s book here.
Georgia Cook (she/her): Georgia Cook is an illustrator and writer from the UK. She has been nominated for a Scribe Award, was a finalist in the 2025 BBC Audio Drama Awards, and is the winner of the 2020 LISP Flash Fiction Award. She has work published in Baffling Magazine, Luna Station Quarterly, and Vastarien Lit, and has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize multiple times, among others. She frequently writes for the Doctor Who audio range with Big Finish, and her Doctor Who Adventures Novel, Ruby Red, featuring The Fifteenth Doctor, was published in 2024 by Penguin. She also regularly writes and narrates for various horror anthology podcasts, and is the co-creator of The Holmwood Foundation – a modern-day found-footage sequel podcast to the novel Dracula. Learn more about Georgia on her website. Or follow her on Bluesky and Instagram. Get her books here.
Ian Green (he/him): Ian Green is a writer from Northern Scotland with a PhD in epigenetics. His short fiction has been widely published (BBC Radio 4, Londnr, Almond Press, OpenPen, Meanjin, Transportation Press, The Pigeonhole, No Alibi Press, Minor Lits, and more). He won the BBC Radio 4 Opening Lines competition, the Futurebook Future Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for Best Newcomer at the British Fantasy Awards. His debut fantasy trilogy The Rotstorm (2021–2023) began with the Sunday Times bestseller The Gauntlet and the Fist Beneath. His biopunk eco-terrorism thriller Extremophile launched in 2024. You can find out more about Ian on his website. Or follow him on Bluesky, Twitter or Instagram. Buy Extremophile and The Gauntlet and the Fist Beneath.
Lorraine Wilson (she/her): A conservation scientist and third-culture Scot, Lorraine lives by the sea writing speculative fiction influenced by folklore and the wilderness. She is the multi-award winning author of several books, most recently the science fantasy, We Are All Ghosts In The Forest, and the upcoming The Salt Oracle. Find out more on Lorraine’s website. Or connect with her on Bluesky and Instagram. You can also read her blog on Substack. Grab her books here.
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