Emily Craven on Stories and Places

Welcome back to The Corner of Story and Game! This time around I get the chance to pick the brain of the founder and CEO of Story City - Emily Craven. She is a published author, a speaker, and a storyteller with a degree in Astrophysics but a love for interactive experiences.

Story City is a social enterprise that believes local stories and storytellers matter and that connecting places with stories can create compelling real-world experiences.

Some of the specific topics we cover include:

• Her very first physical location "choose your own adventure" project using QR codes and zip ties,
• Learning about a region through interactive storytelling,
• Dealing with writer's block and loneliness,
• What she learned from Monty Python sketches,
• Where Story City came from and what Narrative Mapping is,
• How fiction can educate or inform, and
• How anchoring an interactive experience in a specific location can help communities.

Give it a listen!

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