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Saturday, April 17 • 02:00 - 02:50
The Ingredients of a Breakthrough Short Story

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Editors and authors talk about how they shape ideas, what they look for, how they edit, experimental narratives they've tried, what works and what doesn't. Join this session for insights into how professionals craft and recognize exceptional short stories.

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Coral Moore

co-Editor and Mermaid-in-Chief, Constelación Magazine
Coral Alejandra Moore is a writer, a genetics nerd, and the co-editor and co-publisher of Constelación Magazine. She believes the best thing in life is a well-made cup of coffee. Coral lives near Seattle with a dangerously smart Catahoula Leopard Dog, a small flock of chickens, and... Read More →

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Eliana González Ugarte

Born and raised in Asunción, Paraguay. Eliana wrote her first and only picture book fanfiction in 1995, titled Frog and Toad go to the Zoo, as a second-grade class assignment. Spoiler: everyone gets eaten in the end. She has won over ten short story awards in Paraguay, and one for... Read More →
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Andy Dudak

My fiction is featured in Jonathan Strahan’s Year’s Best Science Fiction and two volumes of Rich Horton’s Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy. My stories have appeared in Analog, Apex, Clarkesworld, Interzone, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and in Science... Read More →
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Salik Shah

Founding Editor & Publisher, Mithila Review
Salik Shah is an Indian science fiction writer and filmmaker from New Delhi. He is the founding editor of Mithila Review, Asia’s leading science fiction and fantasy journal, and a founding member of Plurality University (Paris). His work has been nominated for Elgin, Toto and Kumaon... Read More →
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Valerie Valdes

Valerie Valdes’s short fiction and poetry have been featured in Uncanny Magazine, Time Travel Short Stories and Nightmare Magazine. Her debut novel Chilling Effect was shortlisted for the 2021 Arthur C. Clarke Award and was named one of Library Journal’s best SF/fantasy novels... Read More →

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