Workshops and Talks
Fiction as a tool for thinking about systems, technology, and the future you’re building.
I’m an award-winning science fiction writer published in Nature, Lightspeed, and Asimov Press who teaches technical and creative organizations how to use fiction as a research method. Every system has a human layer. Fiction is how you prototype it.
I’ve taught and spoken at:
Devconnect The Protocol Institute Proto-town RAD Lab
“Really wonderful workshop… your preparation and enthusiasm and clarity were fantastic. You helped unfamiliar people wade somewhere new; that is so special.”
— Amy LaViers, Director, The Robotics, Automation, and Dance (RAD) Lab
Why organizations bring me in
Prototype the human layer
Specs describe what a system does; they can’t tell you what it’s like to live inside it. Fiction lets you think through the human-scale failure modes and possibilities of your technology and system before you’ve built them.
Get unstuck
Writing is a low-friction, high-signal opportunity for groups and individuals to explore and propose ideas they’d never bring to a planning meeting.
Think beyond the roadmap
The horizon of many technologies reaches into the far, far future. Forecasting can give you a number, but fiction gives your team the experience of inhabiting that future. Fiction is a rehearsal space inside the future your work is creating.
Make your work legible to outsiders
The hardest part of technical work is explaining why it matters to people who don’t share your vocabulary and background. Narrative is the oldest tool for translating complex ideas into meaningful communications, and it’s teachable.
Services offered
Talks
30-90 minutes — remote or on-site
Keynote or conference session. Audience leaves with a way of thinking, concrete frameworks, and insight into creative and futurism practices
Workshops
Half-day to 4 weeks — 5-20 participants — remote or on-site
Hands-on workshops and lessons. Participants leave with product (drafts, ideas, stories) based on workshop focus and written feedback from me.
In-House Writing Cohort
Ongoing (1 month - 1 year+) — 5-20 participants — remote or on-site
A standing writing group inside your organization. Modelled on the Protocol Fiction Special Interest Group I’ve run since 2025. Genre and scene building.
Selected engagements
Science Fiction Writing Bootcamp
Proto-town · 2026
Four-week workshop
A four-week sci-fi writing intensive, taking a cohort of engineers, founders, and directors with no experience writing science fiction from idea generation through a finished science fiction story. Weekly sessions, two rounds of written feedback.
Building Narrative Bridges: Protocol Storytelling
Devconnect Argentina · 2025
Conference talk + workshop
A talk followed by a hands on workshop targeted toward developers and technologists on how to use fiction and narrative to think through the systems they’re building and connect technical concepts with broad audiences.
A writing workshop for a group of artists (visual, robotics, dance, and sound design) in residence with the RAD Lab. Using science fiction to think through the future of their field and the future their works imagine and build toward.
Writing the Choreobotics Future
The RAD Lab · 2026
Workshop
Protocol Fiction Special Interest Group
The Protocol Institute · 2025-Present
Founder and lead biweekly writing cohort
A biweekly writing group I co-founded and lead. Developing and building the new genre of protocol fiction. More than 1 year running craft workshops, developing theory documents, managing writing competitions, generating creative exercises and growing a new field and literary scene collaboratively.
Let’s start a conversation
Remote by default, travel welcome. 4-week lead time is ideal.
I work at a range of scales, from month-long cohorts inside companies to one-off workshops for artist residencies and small nonprofits.
Organizational workshop engagements start at $7,000. Smaller and arts-sector engagements are priced hourly. Commissioned stories are quoted separately. Tell me what you have and what you’re hoping for, and I’ll tell you what’s possible.