Archive - The Future of the Novel

In my Mother’s Room

Reflections on the last few months

May 16 •

March 2025

A London Guide to the Future of the Novel

Which books does your hometown take you to (on this World Book Day)?

Mar 6 •

Laying a Paraboloid

AI and the Future of the Novel

Mar 1 •

February 2025

AI and the future of the novel

by RLF Fellow Simon Okotie

Published on Royal Literary Fund • Feb 24

December 2024

Further dimensions in fiction

An interview with David Rose

Dec 8, 2024 •

November 2024

My Writing Life: Simon Okotie

"You have to love writing it for its own sake."

Published on Royal Literary Fund • Nov 16, 2024

Creative Digest #11: recent reading and future writing

The latest edition of our departmental Substack looks at two recently published novels and the very future of the novel itself

Published on Creative Digest from City, University of London • Nov 5, 2024

October 2024

Down and Out in Lagos and London

The future of political fiction

Oct 20, 2024 •

Not a kind of copying

Some thoughts on novelistic influence

Oct 2, 2024 •

September 2024

Talking to themselves in the last person

On the disintegration of character

Sep 27, 2024 •

Welcome to the Future!

Why I've started a Substack on the future of the novel

Sep 9, 2024 •

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