Benjamin Laird is a software engineer and poet. His print and electronic poetry have been published in various journals. His longer works include the digital chapbook The Durham Poems, part of a series of poems on William Denton, a nineteenth-century spiritualist, scientific lecturer, and radical. He holds a PhD from RMIT University, where he teaches digital writing.
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Benjamin Laird
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How does fiction reflect and predict on the page, and what does it mean to speculate through literature? This discussion will dive deep into the world/s of speculative fiction, before making a very exciting announcement sure to delight emerging short fiction writers Australia wide.
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