Jakub's Fantasy Map World

10/05/2026

Last week, as Ipswich Town were celebrating getting promoted to the Premier League, I managed to have an exciting time exploring Children's Literature Day at the Hold - with beautiful picture illustrations with Claire Powell, children's writing with JP Rose, and a live pitching event that brought lots of humor in the audience all in the mix, there surely was a lot going on!

More information about this event at the link here: https://jakubsfantasymapworld.blogspot.com/2026/05/my-experiences-of-writing-childrens.html

Here we are again... just over a week on from experiencing the cartographic foolery, we're back - this time, exploring the world of children...

30/04/2026

Time for some cartographic foolery on my blog...

After only a few weeks of silence, it's time for some more blogposting! As promised, this post's topic will be focused on this map: Yes, tha...

17/04/2026

Fantasy time again! In this blog post, I decided to try out a new creative writing group - the Wolsey Writers, run by two-time novelist Katie Ward, and it just happened to be that April's theme was about Terry Pratchett - one of the world's most famous fantasy writers, having written 41 novels about his Discworld planet.

Check out the full story behind this event here: https://jakubsfantasymapworld.blogspot.com/2026/04/wolsey-writers-diving-into-terry.html

Hi all! After going through the beauty that is the Lemn Sissay experience at the end of March, and whilst waiting for Michael Sauter's event...

30/03/2026

A bit of a drift away from fantasy. To enlighten people in the run-up to the Easter holidays, I have taken the liberty to write a four-line poem that is inspired by Lemn Sissay's Let the Light Pour In, having attended his live poetry reading session at the University of Suffolk on the 23rd of March.

Some more information about my writing inspirations can be found here: https://jakubsfantasymapworld.blogspot.com/2026/03/writing-lemn-sissay-inspired-four-liner.html

16/02/2026

The long-awaited blog post on Elena Medel’s workshop on writing about cities at the British Library is finally here, and it comes with a whole new twist… it’s a poem!

Feel free to check out my post here: https://jakubsfantasymapworld.blogspot.com/2026/02/a-masterclass-on-writing-cities-with.html

Well, hello there, and I hope that we have all have managed to recover from the festivities of the new year. We're back, and this post dives...

27/01/2026

Well, what an absolute pleasure it was attending the creative writing workshop at the British Library conservation centre yesterday… it was fascinating hearing about Spanish literature, urban lifestyles, social divides and power, and a debate about our writing projects that had lots of fascinating ideas flying around everywhere!

Looking forward to releasing the full write-up of the event in the coming days.

And keeping with the theme of cities, I would like to leave you all with this dramatic panorama of the massive skyscrapers out in the Docklands…

19/01/2026

Are you ready for the biggest and boldest fantasy map writing endeavor ever to appear on the blog? The theme is going to be all about cities... featuring an award-winning writer that has never featured before!

It's happening on the 26th of January at British Library, and of course, you will get the chance to see all the things that are happening there...

And if you haven't yet seen the previous post on the secret maps exhibition, feel free to check it out here:

It's been quite dead on my blog since the last post on the tales of creative writing, and that's because I have been busy in London's big li...

02/01/2026

Hello and hope all of you have had a happy new year. I will be taking you on a journey through the Secret Maps exhibition at the British Library, as well as events covering the history of mapping secrecy and the galaxy of paranormal and mysterious that come alive with it, and I hope that the past few months that I have spent taking part in the things related to the exhibition will be worth an enjoyable read.

Check out the post here: https://jakubsfantasymapworld.blogspot.com/2025/12/run-up-to-end-of-2025-secret-maps-at.html

It's been quite dead on my blog since the last post on the tales of creative writing, and that's because I have been busy in London's big li...

28/03/2025

Are you ready for another action-packed post? Last night, I have released a detailed breakdown of my experiences at two different business events that I have gone to as part of the Ipswich Thrive Business Week, that took place between the 10th and the 18th of March. The link to the post can be found here: https://jakubsfantasymapworld.blogspot.com/2025/03/post-bootcamp-adventures-navigating.html

Wow... it's been a while since I have made a post about how things have been getting on with my business idea... but I am back again, and it...

11/03/2025

Hello all. It was an absolute pleasure to attend the Ipswich Thrive pitching event at the University of Suffolk and to listen to everybody’s ideas - from accommodation services, to catering, and disability initatives, there were a lot of fascinating and diverse ideas going on around.

A full write-up of the day’s events to be expected soon on my blog…