Julian Rome is a philosophy PhD student at the University of Michigan who writes philosophical fiction and is interested in trans-utopias. His workshop will explore the craft of fiction writing with a focus on the ways it can be used to perform philosophical reflection and argumentation. Participants will read a short story and accompanying craft essay prior to the workshop. In the workshop itself, participants will complete generative writing exercises, discuss core elements of craft, and work through the ways that writing fiction might be relevant to their work as philosophers. Rather than seeing fiction as a site into which to translate existing philosophical views or arguments, our goal will be to work out how fiction can itself extend, critique, and do philosophy.

You can find the readings for the workshop here and the overview of the workshop here