Bring any writing you've been working on along for some informal feedback, bring freshly-hatched ideas for some ideas-bouncing, bring your best expertise, tips, and constructive criticism to help others.

An anti-workshop. These days Slam Poet Hannah Eiseman-Renyard is a pretty good poet – with feature slots and festival bookings to prove it. But one of the ways she got good was by getting all the terrible stuff out of her system for many, many years.

Members of London's specialist SF/F/H writing group The T-Party will critique pre-submitted manuscripts with a focus on what is needed to achieve professional publication. T-Party is a London-based writing group specialising in SF/F/H.

Are you struggling to write the first draft of your novel? Are you researching endlessly but not actually writing the book? Have you had a book in your head for years but been unable to start it? Do you have a drawer full of unfinished stories and manuscripts?

Creating a truly alien culture is perhaps the biggest challenge a sci-fi writer faces. There’s no end of ways to do it wrong, from “proud warrior races” to the planet of scantily-clad women who just want to understand this human concept called “love”.

From Back to the Future and Looper to The Time Traveller’s Wife, this talk looks at the problems and opportunities faced when writing time travel. Ignoring any pretence of "realism", we focus on creating internally consistent time travel logic.