Faclan 2017: Ultima Thule

In medieval geographies, Ultima Thule is a place beyond the borders of the known world. Nowadays, we tell ourselves that there are no such borders, that there is no ‘unknown’ world. Yet we remain possessed by it: the hinterland, the winter land, the empty space beyond the horizon that can only be filled by our imagination. For writers it’s an endless territory to explore, revisit and reinvent. Perhaps ultimately we still need these narratives; we still need somewhere that is off the map.

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