Sep 2025
Wandering Imaginations
The Brontës’ imaginary worlds reimagined for 2025.
Four writers revisit the Brontës’ imaginary world of Angria for a new collection of stories and animations.
Before there was Wuthering Heights and Thornfield Hall, there was Gondal – and there was Angria.
As children in Haworth, the Brontë siblings dreamed up a series of imaginary worlds. Among them was Angria, a fantastical kingdom that maps directly on to the coast of West Africa.
Now, nearly 200 years on, we’re inviting four emerging writers – two from northern England, two from Ghana – to create four new stories inspired by Angria yet rooted in the writers’ own imaginations. Written following residencies at Pa Gya! A Literary Festival in Accra and the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, their creations will be published both as stories and as digital animations as part of the annual Brontë Festival of Women’s Writing in September 2025 and at Pa Gya! the following month.
Lead image: © Andrew Benge
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