Radioactive Fossils event explores the strange afterlives of unfinished creative work
6 July 2026
A special creative writing event at Chapter Arts Centre will invite audiences to explore the energy, pressure and creative possibility of unfinished work.
Radioactive Fossils: A Creative Experiment will take place from 6–9pm on Thursday 16 July. Free tickets, including dessert and drinks, are available now.
The event brings together writers working across genres to share works-in-progress and dormant texts: pieces that have been paused, buried or set aside, but which still exert a pull on the present.
Taking inspiration from fossils that absorb the elemental traces of their surroundings over millions of years, the event asks whether unfinished creative works can also carry a form of latent energy. What happens when writers return to these charged objects? What new forms become possible when unfinished work is opened up to others?
Audience members will be invited to take part in playful acts of co-creation, helping to reimagine the possibilities of works that may not be quite finished with us yet.
Radioactive Fossils offers a chance to encounter the strange afterlives of creative work in Wales today, from unexplored ruins and wild experiments to abandoned worlds still waiting to be transformed.
The event will feature David Bolitho, Nia Davies, Tracy Harris, Sian Hughes, Catherine Jenkins, Joshua Jones, Radha Patel, Emma Smith-Barton and Clare Sturges.