INTO THE ID VORTEX: TYPE BOOKS SALON - THE SECRET WORLD OF FANFIC

Who do you love? And how do you do it? Is fan fiction just a lazy writer's search for kicks, or a complicated way to be creative with shared material? Are the aliens who force Scully and Mulder to have sex a metaphor for our own desire to get down and dirty with the texts that obsess us? Or are they just aliens forcing Mulder and Scully to have sex?

Bring a source text that won't leave you alone – a book, a tv show, My Little Pony, whatever haunts your imagination in the night – and be ready to play with concepts like Canadian Shack and Inappropriate Elf, and the whole flourishing world of fanfic.

For further reading, click here for a wonderfully detailed bibliography of academic work on fanfic