ABOUT RAYN

Rayn Epremian is a writer, filmmaker, artist, and language enthusiast telling speculative stories in various formats. In 2018 she wrote, directed, and produced the short fantasy film 'Multiverse'. Her poetry has appeared in speculative poetry magazine Liminality and in two of Proverse Hong Kong's "Mingled Voices" print anthologies. Rayn spent February 2019 writing a fantasy novel at the Villa Sarkia residency in Sysmä, Finland, and in July 2019 she attended the SLS poetry workshop with Ariana Reines in Tbilisi, Georgia. Rayn has an MSc in Evolution of Language and Cognition from the University of Edinburgh, with a dissertation on the evolution of narrative. Her short story 'A Star on the Tongue' was a runner-up in the Language Evolves competition and is forthcoming in Fusion Fragment. Rayn's next film, 'Sea Monsters', is about magical creatures living in modern-day Edinburgh. Other projects in the works include a poetry collection, several feature screenplays, and a musical. 

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FILM

MULTIVERSE

An indecisive young woman gains a new perspective when she falls in love with Trudy, a fourth-dimensional vampire for whom all possible universes are equally real.

PUBLICATIONS

Fiction

A Star on the Tongue

Forthcoming in Fusion Fragment

Issue #10

January 2022

Poetry

Sometimes Sirens 

Liminality: A Magazine of Speculative Poetry

Issue #18

Winter 2018-2019

Fox Thoughts

Liminality: A Magazine of Speculative Poetry

Issue #19

Spring 2019

All-Inclusive Guilt-Trip Getaway

Mingled Voices 4
2018 anthology from Proverse Hong Kong on the theme ‘plastic’.

Available internationally from Amazon and other online booksellers.

Birds and Snacking

Mingled Voices 5
2019 anthology from Proverse Hong Kong on the theme ‘hunger’.

Available internationally from Amazon and other online booksellers.

ANIMATION & ILLUSTRATION

OTHER NEWS & EVENTS

June, 2021

True Story: Narrative as an Adaptation for the Communication of Social Survival Information
Presentation and Q&A at the Cultural Evolution Society Conference 2021

January, 2021

'Una' is a Semi-Finalist in the Emerging Screenwriters Shoot Your Short Competition
The short film version of 'Sea Monsters'

December, 2020

'A Star on the Tongue' is a Finalist in Language Evolves Short Story Competition

May 18, 2019

"Multiverse" screening and Q&A at Systems MA Conference
NYU Gallatin

Feb 22, 2019

Sanatakomo ("Word-Smithy") Reading + Open-Mic!

Matka-Baari, Sysmä, Finland

May 30, 2018

Period Party
A night of poetry & storytelling in celebration of Menstrual Hygiene Day
New Women Space, Brooklyn

CONTACT

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