Flights of Foundry 2021: Full Schedule

19:00 UTC

[FULL] Kaffeeklatsch led by Jules Premus

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Increasing accessibility for all to learn skills needed to become successful character designers and workers in the animation industry.

Speakers

Jules Premus

Character Designer at Bento Box Animation Studios. Previous credits include Marvel, Netflix, and Hulu. Pronouns are he/him.

Friday April 16, 2021 19:00 - 19:30 UTC
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21:00 UTC

[FULL] Kaffeeklatsch led by Curtis Chen

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Curtis Chen

Secretary, SFWA

Once a Silicon Valley software engineer, Curtis C. Chen (陳致宇) now writes stories and runs puzzle games near Portland, Oregon. He's the author of the Kangaroo series of funny science fiction spy thrillers and has written for the Realm originals Ninth Step Station, Machina, and... Read More →

Friday April 16, 2021 21:00 - 21:30 UTC
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21:30 UTC

[FULL] Kaffeeklatsch led by Woody Dismukes

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Afro-Brazilian Culture, homelessness or housing, speculative poetry

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Woodrow Dismukes

Woody Dismukes is a Brazilian-American poet, author, and social advocate living in Los Angeles, California. He attended Clarion West in 2018 and was awarded an inaugural Ignyte Award in 2020. His work is featured in or forthcoming from Lightspeed, Nightmare, FIYAH, Strange Horizons... Read More →

Friday April 16, 2021 21:30 - 22:00 UTC
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00:00 UTC

[FULL] Portfolio Critique led by Sloane Leong

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Sloane Leong

Attendee

Sloane Leong is a mixed indigenous cartoonist, artist, and writer. She is currently working on the sequel to her sci-fi adventure comic Prism Stalker and has a new graphic novel out from First Second called A Map to the Sun. She is currently living in Chinook Territory near Portland... Read More →

Saturday April 17, 2021 00:00 - 00:50 UTC
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01:00 UTC

[FULL] Kaffeeklatsch led by Darusha Wehm

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Join author Darusha Wehm to chat about writing in shared worlds, including tie-in and IP work.

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Darusha Wehm

Author

M. Darusha Wehm is the Nebula Award-nominated and Sir Julius Vogel Award winning author of the interactive fiction game The Martian Job, as well as the science fiction novels Beautiful Red, Children of Arkadia, The Voyage of the White Cloud, and the Andersson Dexter cyberpunk detective... Read More →

Saturday April 17, 2021 01:00 - 01:30 UTC
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02:00 UTC

[Sign-Up Available] Kaffeeklatsch led by Sloane Leong

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Sloane Leong

Attendee

Saturday April 17, 2021 02:00 - 02:30 UTC
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02:00 UTC

[FULL] Crafting Monsters That Matter led by Casey Lucas

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For creators of horror in any medium, this workshop delves into how to design monsters that do more than merely scare your characters. Explore how context, theme, and framing can be used to craft deeper, more meaningful monster encounters unique to your story, world, and characters.

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Casey Lucas

Casey Lucas is an award-winning author, game developer, and graphic novel editor based in New Zealand. Working with Seven Seas Entertainment, she has localised and edited over 60 volumes of Japanese manga for the English-language market. She was the recipient of the 2020 Sir Julius... Read More →

Saturday April 17, 2021 02:00 - 02:50 UTC
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02:00 UTC

[FULL] Dungeons & Dragons One-Shot Adventure led by Tally Ewing

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Tally Ewing

Find me on discord @ Molybdenum#6114 !

Saturday April 17, 2021 02:00 - 06:00 UTC
Courtyard

Limited Access, Limited Session Gaming

02:30 UTC

[Sign-Up Available] Kaffeeklatsch led by Tonia Ransom

Speakers

Tonia Ransom

Creator & Executive Producer, NIGHTLIGHT Podcast

Tonia Ransom is the creator and executive producer of NIGHTLIGHT, a horror podcast featuring creepy tales written by Black writers. Tonia has been scaring people since the second grade, when she wrote her first story based on Michael Myers. She’s pretty sure her teacher was concerned... Read More →

Saturday April 17, 2021 02:30 - 03:00 UTC
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04:00 UTC

[FULL] Kaffeeklatsch led by Casey Lucas

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Casey Lucas

Saturday April 17, 2021 04:00 - 04:30 UTC
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05:00 UTC

[FULL] Kaffeeklatsch led by Marie Brennan

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Marie Brennan

Writer

Marie Brennan is a former anthropologist and folklorist who shamelessly pillages her academic fields for inspiration. She recently misapplied her professors' hard work to Turning Darkness Into Light, a sequel to the Hugo Award-nominated series The Memoirs of Lady Trent. As half of... Read More →

Saturday April 17, 2021 05:00 - 05:30 UTC
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09:00 UTC

[FULL] Editing Workshop led by Nick Hembery

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An editing workshop where writers bring along their current projects and there is a led discussion to improve them. Participants will receive notes on how they can develop their projects for better drafts.

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Nick Hembery

UK-based freelance editor and proofreader.

Saturday April 17, 2021 09:00 - 10:50 UTC
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12:00 UTC

[FULL] Kaffeeklatsch led by Kanyu Wang

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Chinese SFF

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Regina Kanyu Wang

PhD fellow, CoFUTURES

Regina Kanyu Wang is a writer, editor and researcher born in Shanghai, China and currently pursuing her PhD under the CoFUTURES project at the University of Oslo. Her research interest lies in Chinese science fiction, especially from the gender and environmental perspective. She writes... Read More →

Saturday April 17, 2021 12:00 - 12:30 UTC
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13:00 UTC

[FULL] Writing Episodically - A Plotting Workshop led by Eddie Louise

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We will begin by selecting a concept with main characters and a setting or trope (ie: Cats in Space or Necromancer Romance) and then thru Q&A build a Long Arc Plot. Once we have that, we will divide the long are into 5 sections and add episodic elements to fill it out. By the end of the 2 hours we will have a functional plot outline.

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Eddie Louise

Author

Eddie Louise is a novelist and audio-drama/podcast creator who builds speculative fiction worlds on the page and for the ears. She writes the hit audio-drama, THE TALES OF SAGE & SAVANT and the novels of the TRANSMIGRATIONS Series.

Saturday April 17, 2021 13:00 - 14:50 UTC
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14:00 UTC

[Sign-Up Available] Kaffeeklatsch led by Dan Stout

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Newcomers who are looking for resources, balancing writing with a day job, and what changes when the day job goes away?

Speakers

Dan Stout

Dan Stout lives in Columbus, Ohio, where he writes noir with a twist of magic and a disco chaser. Dan's stories have appeared in publications such as The Saturday Evening Post, Nature, and Nightmare. He is the author of The Carter Archives, a series of noir fantasy novels from DAW... Read More →

Saturday April 17, 2021 14:00 - 14:30 UTC
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14:00 UTC

[FULL] Test Your High Concept led by K. R. Monin, Jacob Baugher

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A "test your high concept" workshop, where writers submit a summary of the interworkings of their fantasy realm or sci-fi society and how it intersects with the plot of their story. Workshop leaders (Kathleen and Jacob) and peer participants will test and help authors expand on each concept by asking questions, looking for contradictions, holes, or opportunities to flesh out the idea to make the universe and the storyline more robust.

Speakers

K. R. Monin

K. R. Monin is a speculative fiction author whose muses include human potential, everyday surrealism, and evolving technology. Her work has been published by Write Ahead/The Future Looms and Black Hare Press. In the spare time that exists between worlds, she co-hosts the analytics-based... Read More →

Jacob Baugher

Prof. of Creative Writing, Franciscan University of Steubenville

I have several short stories published on a small Australian press. I created & co-host a writing podcast titled "The Archetypist," wherein we dissect bestselling novels and distill them down to their basic elements in order to create tools for writers. I also taught 400 level creative... Read More →

Saturday April 17, 2021 14:00 - 14:50 UTC
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14:00 UTC

[FULL] Alea Arcana led by Arthur Kierce

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Play Alea Arcana, with the game's creator. This is a roleplaying game based on tarot cards. https://www.theonekierce.com/store/alea-arcana-digital-edition

Speakers

Arthur Kierce

Artist, theoneKierce

Arthur Kierce (he/they) is a young trans artist based in Ireland. He is interested in mythology, art nouveau, storytelling, and magpies, and he works in everything from illustration and comics to graphic design, jewellery, costuming, and ttrpg content!

Saturday April 17, 2021 14:00 - 15:59 UTC
Courtyard

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15:00 UTC

[FULL] Drafting the Perfect Pitch - two hour session? led by George Jreije

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Drafting the Perfect Pitch and/or the Concise Query Letter

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George Jreije

I’m an Arab-American middle grade fantasy author of two forthcoming books from HarperCollins. My first novel, SHAD HADID AND THE ALCHEMISTS OF ALEXANDRIA debuts in 2022. Additionally, my short fiction has been commissioned by UNICEF. When not writing, I’m mentoring writers with... Read More →

Saturday April 17, 2021 15:00 - 16:50 UTC
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16:00 UTC

[Sign-Up Available] Kaffeeklatsch led by Kimberly Nugent

Speakers

Kimberly Nugent

Editor, Game Dev, Writer, Penguicon Featured Guest

Penguicon Featured Guest, Kimberly Nugent, began her career editing speculative fiction and poetry with Far Horizons Magazine as her first position while completing her editing certificate from UC Berkeley. After experience editing shorts and anthologies, she then moved into her lifelong... Read More →

Saturday April 17, 2021 16:00 - 16:30 UTC
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16:30 UTC

[FULL] Kaffeeklatsch led by Izzy Wasserstein

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Tips and tricks for writers new to the field

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Izzy Wasserstein

Author

Izzy Wasserstein is a queer, trans woman. She teaches writing and literature at a public university in the American Midwest, writes fiction and poetry, and shares a house with a variety of animal companions and the writer Nora E. Derrington. Her fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld... Read More →

Saturday April 17, 2021 16:30 - 17:00 UTC
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17:00 UTC

[FULL] Blurbs, Bios, and Backmatter led by Jaye Viner

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We put so much emphasis on writing a good book, but the process after our dreams of publication come true is more mysterious. As a debut author I had no idea how much writing I would be asked to do, writing that I knew nothing about. A Sales pitch to distributers, the book description that goes inside the front jacket, cold emails to authors who would blurb my book, long-read essay pitches, comps explanations, BISAC data, metadata. This workshop will give an overview of the most common genres along with some examples, best practices, and tips for how to find information, along with time to write some short genres like author bios or pitches from model texts and briefly workshop them with other participants. It should be particularly useful for people planning to work with small presses or self-publishing.

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Jaye Viner

Writer

A dabbler in language and color and otherworldly-narratives, Jaye is open to any and all conversations about Star Trek, Farscape, and The 100. She is the author of a debut novel, Jane of Battery Park, about a woman whose family puts celebrities on trial for their sins (yikes), and... Read More →

Saturday April 17, 2021 17:00 - 17:50 UTC
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17:00 UTC

[FULL] Creating a Story from Scratch led by Diane Turnshek

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Learning to write is a solitary experience, but in this workshop, the participants will create a story from scratch. My questions may seem random (Past, present or future? Fantasy, SF or horror? This world, a secondary world or alien planet?), but the participants will see how to create an engaging story out of thin air in an hour.

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Diane Turnshek

Carnegie Mellon University

Diane Turnshek is an astronomer at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. She has been on the Board of Directors for both the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and Parsec, Pittsburgh’s premier science fiction organization. For nine years, she mentored graduate... Read More →

Saturday April 17, 2021 17:00 - 17:50 UTC
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17:00 UTC

[FULL] Tabletop Game Mechanics led by Allie Bustion

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Creating mechanics within tabletop games that promote interaction with fictional positioning and move players forward towards investigating the goals and themes of the game.

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Allie Bustion

Game Designer & Writer

Saturday April 17, 2021 17:00 - 18:50 UTC
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18:00 UTC

[Sign-Up Available] Kaffeeklatsch led by Grace Fong

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Grace Fong

Grace P. Fong is a Narrative Designer on Magic: The Gathering. In addition, she is a freelance illustrator who has won the inaugural Ignyte award.

Saturday April 17, 2021 18:00 - 18:30 UTC
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18:00 UTC

[FULL] Writing Flash Fiction Like a Poet led by Tamara Jerée Rutledge

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Writing flash fiction like a poet. I hope participants can come away with a fresh perspective on their work (building in a sense of poetic astonishment, how to build towards a turn/realization, revising towards strangeness) and strategies to think about how they can dig into sentence-level detail to evoke mood and control pacing.

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Tamara Jerée Rutledge

Saturday April 17, 2021 18:00 - 18:50 UTC
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18:30 UTC

[FULL] Kaffeeklatsch led by LaShawn Wanak

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Writing craft, what makes a good story, how to make it out of a short story slush.

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LaShawn Wanak

Writer, Book Reviewer, GigaNotoSaurus Editor

LaShawn M. Wanak lives in Wisconsin with her husband and son. She writes science fiction, fantasy, and a little bit of horror. Her works have been published in Fireside Magazine, FIYAH, Uncanny Magazine, and many others. She is the editor of the online magazine GigaNotoSaurus and... Read More →

Saturday April 17, 2021 18:30 - 19:00 UTC
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19:00 UTC

[FULL] Identifying/Breaking Bad Writing Habits led by Jeffe Kennedy

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Learn to identify your bad habits as a writer to improve the quantity and quality of your work. Jeffe will share some of her approaches, such as Own Your Process, Kick Excuses to the Curb, Listen to Your Editors – and Learn, Study Successful Authors and Keep a List of Recurring Tics. She’ll also help participants discover their own process and what might be getting in the way of more and better writing.

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Jeffe Kennedy

Author

Jeffe Kennedy is an award-winning, best-selling author who writes fantasy with romantic elements and fantasy romance. She is an RWA member and serves on the Board of Directors for SFWA as a Director at Large. She is a hybrid author, and also self-publishes a romantic fantasy series... Read More →

Saturday April 17, 2021 19:00 - 19:50 UTC
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19:00 UTC

[FULL] Worldbuilding Workshop (5W, 1 H) led by Joyce Chng

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For this workshop, I want to help participants: 1) Strengthen their worldbuilding, 2) Identify their strengths in worldbuilding, 3) Concreticise their worldbuilding.

Speakers

Joyce Chng

Joyce Chng is Singaporean. They write science fiction, YA and things in between. Joyce also co-edited THE SEA IS OURS: Tales of Steampunk Southeast Asia with Jaymee Goh. They can be found at @jolantru and A Wolf's Tale (http://awolfstale.wordpress.com). (Pronouns: she/her, they/t... Read More →

Saturday April 17, 2021 19:00 - 19:50 UTC
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19:00 UTC

[FULL] Fight Scene Critique led by M. S. Ewing, Nathan Meier

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Participants submit a short fight-scene from their work-in-progress and trained martial artists will act in out and also offer a critique based on real-world combat dynamics.

Speakers

M. S. Ewing

Writer & Podcaster, Semi-Sages of the Pages

Molly is a writer as well as a podcaster & audio editor on Semi-Sages of the Pages. Additionally, she has a black belt in judo (obtained 2012). Molly has competed, coached, and instructed at the national level. She also has experience teaching self-defense seminars and organizing/choreographing... Read More →

Nathan Meier

Saturday April 17, 2021 19:00 - 21:00 UTC
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20:00 UTC

[FULL] Kaffeeklatsch led by Julia Rios

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Short fiction, magazines, mermaids

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Julia Rios

Mermaids Monthly

Julia Rios (they/them) is a queer, Latinx writer, editor, podcaster, and narrator whose fiction, non-fiction, and poetry have appeared in Latin American Literature Today, Lightspeed, and Goblin Fruit, among other places. Their editing work has won multiple awards including the Hugo... Read More →

Saturday April 17, 2021 20:00 - 20:30 UTC
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20:00 UTC

[FULL] Amazon, Goodreads, NetGalley, and Edelweiss, Oh My! led by Holly Walrath

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There are a variety of valuable resources for independent authors out there, but how does one choose among them, and how can an indie book stand out among the crowd? Holly Lyn Walrath will explain how to navigate the available options for self-publishing and explore how books can reach more readers via the growing field of reviewer markets.

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Holly Lyn Walrath

Managing Editor, Interstellar Flight Press

Holly Lyn Walrath’s poetry and short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Fireside Fiction, Daily Science Fiction, Luna Station Quarterly, and Analog. She is the author of the chapbooks Glimmerglass Girl (Finishing Line Press, 2018), Numinose Lapidi (in Italian, Kipple Press... Read More →

Saturday April 17, 2021 20:00 - 20:50 UTC
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20:00 UTC

[Sign-Up Available] Portfolio Critique for Artists led by Bruce Brenneise

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Portfolio critique for artists interested in working in the tabletop and/or publishing industries

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Bruce Brenneise

Game artist and illustration professional of six years, best known for work on games like Slay the Spire and Numenera. Awards: Illustrators of the Future vol 34, Chesley Award 2020 nominee. Annuals: Spectrum (vol 26 & vol 27), Infected by Art (vol 5, 6, 7, 8, 9).

Saturday April 17, 2021 20:00 - 20:50 UTC
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20:30 UTC

[FULL] Kaffeeklatsch led by Elsa Sjunneson

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Disability and creativity

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Elsa Sjunneson

Attendee

Hugo, BFA and Aurora award winning editor Elsa Sjunneson is a Deafblind hurricane in a vintage dress. Her written work has appeared in CNN Opinion, Uncanny Magazine, Women of Marvel #1, and many other projects and venues. Being Seen, her debut memoir on media and disability releases... Read More →

Saturday April 17, 2021 20:30 - 21:00 UTC
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21:00 UTC

[FULL] Kaffeeklatsch led by Coral Moore, Eliana González Ugarte

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Translations, Short Fiction, SpecFic from around the world, Constelación Magazine

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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 →

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 →

Saturday April 17, 2021 21:00 - 21:30 UTC
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21:00 UTC

[FULL] Letting the I Ching Write Your Story For You led by Henry Lien

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Philip K. Dick did not write one of his greatest novels, The Man in the High Castle. Dick discovered the I Ching when he began the novel and he let the I Ching write his novel for him. The I Ching is a three thousand year old collection of 64 poems. It can be read as philosophy but is most famous as an oracle, using a method of casting coins or yarrow stalks. This workshop guides students through the process of consulting the I Ching to guide the course of their story. The workshop supplements I Ching consultation with techniques including surrealist parlour games to help grow the connective tissue between one plot node to the next plot node where the I Ching wants the story to go.

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Henry Lien

Author, Holt/Macmillan

Henry Lien is a 2012 graduate of Clarion West Writers Workshop, Seattle. He is the author of the critically-acclaimed and award-winning Peasprout Chen middle grade fantasy series. His short fiction has appeared in publications like Asimov’s, Analog, and F&SF, and he is a four-time... Read More →

Saturday April 17, 2021 21:00 - 22:50 UTC
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21:30 UTC

[FULL] Kaffeeklatsch led by Artur Ganszyniec

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Artur Ganszyniec

Designer, Different Tales

Artur Ganszyniec was the Lead Narrative Designer for the first The Witcher game. Later he worked on ethical F2P games for ATGames, was a Lead Project Designer in 11 bit studios, and currently he’s a part of Different Tales, an indie storytelling studio exploring the idea of slow... Read More →

Saturday April 17, 2021 21:30 - 22:00 UTC
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22:00 UTC

[FULL] Kaffeeklatsch led by S.B. Divya

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Near future science fiction, short or long form.

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S.B. Divya

Author, Editor

S.B. Divya is a lover of science, math, fiction, and the Oxford comma. She is the Hugo and Nebula nominated author of Runtime and co-editor of Escape Pod, with Mur Lafferty. Her short stories have been published at various magazines including Analog, Uncanny, and tor.com. Her collection... Read More →

Saturday April 17, 2021 22:00 - 22:30 UTC
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22:00 UTC

[FULL] Podcasting with Audacity led by Cole Burkhardt

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An in depth look at using Audacity and all of its many effects and plugins for Podcast recording and editing

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Cole Burkhardt

Cole Burkhardt currently resides in Washington D.C and has tried everything from streaming tabletop games on Twitch to spelunking deep underground. He has been in a variety of podcasts including Godshead Incidental and Unplaced and is the writer and director of Null/Void and Ritual... Read More →

Saturday April 17, 2021 22:00 - 22:50 UTC
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22:30 UTC

[FULL] Kaffeeklatsch led by Arley Sorg

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Fantasy Magazine

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Arley Sorg

co-Editor-in-Chief, Fantasy Magazine

Arley Sorg is an associate agent at kt literary. He is a two-time World Fantasy Award Finalist and a two-time Locus Award Finalist for his work as co-Editor-in-Chief at Fantasy Magazine. Arley is also a SFWA Solstice Award Recipient, a Space Cowboy Award Recipient, and a finalist... Read More →

Saturday April 17, 2021 22:30 - 23:00 UTC
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23:00 UTC

[FULL] Geologic Worldbuilding led by Jana Mittelstaedt

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The basics of plate tectonics, how to build mountains, making sure rivers flow downhill, and sorting out your climate zones. With about 80% of fantasy maps featuring an uphill flowing river without a magical explanation I want to help participants understand geology and create their own geologically sound fantasy map in the process.

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Janna Ruth

Writer, Translator & Editor

Janna Ruth is a German award-winning speculative fiction writer, living in Wellington New Zealand. As a former geologist, she has a special love for worldbuilding and fantasy maps (and fights the good fight for more downhill flowing rivers). She's also an editor, proofreader and English... Read More →

Saturday April 17, 2021 23:00 - 23:50 UTC
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23:30 UTC

[FULL] Kaffeeklatsch led by Cassandra Khaw

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Cassandra Khaw

CASSANDRA KHAW is the USA Today bestselling author of Nothing But Blackened Teeth and the Bram Stoker Award-winner, Breakable Things. Other notable works of theirs are The Salt Grows Heavy and British Fantasy Award and Locus Award finalist, Hammers on Bone. Khaw’s work can... Read More →

Saturday April 17, 2021 23:30 - Sunday April 18, 2021 00:00 UTC
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00:00 UTC

[FULL] Career Development for Artists/Writers led by Darusha Wehm

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For some writers and artists, the work is its own reward. But for many of us, it can be hard to determine exactly what success looks like in a creative practice. Whether your creative work is for personal growth or for the public, some paths are more likely than others to lead to where you want your work to take you. This hands-on workshop will help you determine what you want out of a career and how to design a path that will be more likely to succeed.

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Darusha Wehm

Author

Sunday April 18, 2021 00:00 - 02:50 UTC
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01:00 UTC

[FULL] Kaffeeklatsch led by Yilin Wang

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Translation, short fiction/SFF, MFAs/Clarion West/mentorship programs, revising, submitting one's work to SFF and literary fiction journals

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Yilin Wang

Yilin Wang (she/they) is a writer, editor, and Chinese-English translator. Her writing has appeared in Clarkesworld, The Malahat Review, Grain, CV2, carte blanche, The Toronto Star, The Tyee, and elsewhere. Her translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Asymptote, LA Review... Read More →

Sunday April 18, 2021 01:00 - 01:30 UTC
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01:30 UTC

[FULL] KaffeeKlatsch led by Phoebe Barton

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Phoebe Barton

Attendee

Phoebe Barton is a queer trans science fiction writer based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Her short fiction has appeared in venues such as Analog, Lightspeed, and Kaleidotrope, anthologies from Neon Hemlock and World Weaver Press, and she wrote the interactive Nebula Award-finalist... Read More →

Sunday April 18, 2021 01:30 - 02:00 UTC
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03:00 UTC

[FULL] Kaffeeklatsch led by Rashida Smith

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Writing workshops, critique groups, critique partners

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Rashida Smith

Six-week Workshop Admin, Clarion West Writers Workshop

Rashida J. Smith is the workshop administrator for Clarion West Writers Workshop. A former editor of the Hugo-nominated semiprozine Giganotosaurus, she attended Clarion West in 2005 and now writes urban fantasy and paranormal romance as Jasmine Silvera.

Sunday April 18, 2021 03:00 - 03:30 UTC
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03:00 UTC

[FULL] Outline in an Hour led by David D. Levine

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David D. Levine

David D. Levine is the author of Norton Award winning novel Arabella of Mars (Tor 2016), sequels Arabella and the Battle of Venus (Tor 2017) and Arabella the Traitor of Mars (Tor 2018), and over fifty science fiction and fantasy stories. His story “Tk’Tk’Tk” won the Hugo... Read More →

Sunday April 18, 2021 03:00 - 03:50 UTC
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13:00 UTC

[FULL] Kaffeeklatsch led by Julie Czerneda

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Julie E. Czerneda

Award-winning science fiction and fantasy author/editor Julie E. Czerneda was inducted into the CSFFA Hall of Fame in 2022. Published by DAW Books, NY,her latest release is standalone science fiction novel To Each This World and Imaginings, her 25th anniversary collection. Julie is... Read More →

Sunday April 18, 2021 13:00 - 13:30 UTC
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13:30 UTC

[FULL] Kaffeeklatsch led by George Jreije

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Publishing, how I landed my agent and/or publishing contract, writing middle grade fantasy

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George Jreije

Sunday April 18, 2021 13:30 - 14:00 UTC
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14:00 UTC

[FULL] Kaffeeklatsch led by C. L. Clark

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The agent querying process, using Twitter as a writer

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C.L. Clark

Cherae is the author of The Unbroken, the first book in the Magic of the Lost trilogy. She graduated from Indiana University’s creative writing MFA and was a 2012 Lambda Literary Fellow. She’s been a personal trainer, an English teacher, and an editor, and is some combination... Read More →

Sunday April 18, 2021 14:00 - 14:30 UTC
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14:30 UTC

[FULL] Kaffeeklatsch led by Mur Lafferty

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Mur Lafferty

Writer

Mur Lafferty is a Hugo-award winning podcaster, a Hugo and Nebula award nominated writer, and co-editor of the first science fiction podcast, Escape Pod. She streams gaming and live podcasts on Twitch.

Sunday April 18, 2021 14:30 - 15:00 UTC
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15:00 UTC

[FULL] Draw Your Way Out led by Julie Czerneda

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An interactive workshop on creativity and plot issues

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Julie E. Czerneda

Sunday April 18, 2021 15:00 - 16:50 UTC
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15:00 UTC

[FULL] Writing Stats-Based Choice Games led by Stephen Granade

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Writing choice-based games with Choicescript. Choice of Games is involved in the SFF community and hires a lot of writers from that community who haven't written IF before, or have any experience with programming. The workshop will introduce elements of writing Choicescript games (choices and how they matter, keeping the combinatoric explosion of branches in check, the nature of using stats to determine player choice success) and walk attendees through the basics of the ChoiceScript language. We will also discuss the nature of Choice of Games's house style. At the conclusion of the workshop, attendees would have a toy game demonstrating the structure of a ChoiceScript game, experience using tools for writing CS games, a collection of tips and tricks for more advanced exploration, and a better foundation for pitching games to Choice of Games. Attendees will need to install the needed (free) software ahead of time following provided instruction and with email/Discord help from the instructor as needed.

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Stephen Granade

Writer, Scientist

Stephen Granade is a SFF writer and physicist from Huntsville, Alabama, the city with a Saturn V rocket in its skyline. His interactive fiction has won awards, and one received the best review ever: "Here's another Twine game that will make you sad!" His short fiction has appeared... Read More →

Sunday April 18, 2021 15:00 - 17:50 UTC
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16:00 UTC

[FULL] Kaffeeklatsch led by Anna Martino

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What do you know about foreign writers? What would you like to know? And, of course... What you've been writing?

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Anna Martino

Editor, Editora Dame Blanche

Writer and editor from São Paulo (Brazil), publishing in English and Portuguese since 2013. Co-founder of Dame Blanche, one of the first web-only small preses in Brazil solely focused on local SFF. You can find my work at annamartino.com

Sunday April 18, 2021 16:00 - 16:30 UTC
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16:00 UTC

[FULL] Dungeons & Dragons One Shot Adventure led by Jonathan Stark

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Participants will need to access Roll20 for this D&D adventure.

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Jonathan Stark

Jonathan had his first Dungeon & Dragons experience when he was five, when his dad took him to a mysterious shop in Ft. Lauderdale run by a strange bearded man who sold magical books and figurines (Jonathan was pretty sure the dude was a wizard). Since that early introduction to fantasy... Read More →

Sunday April 18, 2021 16:00 - 19:50 UTC
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16:30 UTC

[FULL] Kaffeeklatsch led by Sam Morgan

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Agenting, business of publishing, querying.

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Sam Morgan

Sam Morgan is a literary agent based out of Brooklyn, NY. He specializes in fantasy and science fiction. He represents such authors as Jenn Lyons, Megan E. O'Keefe, Jay Posey, Alexander C. Kane, and Daniel Polansky.

Sunday April 18, 2021 16:30 - 17:00 UTC
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17:00 UTC

[FULL] Kaffeeklatsch led by Premee Mohamed

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Premee Mohamed

Premee Mohamed is a Nebula, World Fantasy, and Aurora award-winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. She is an Assistant Editor at the short fiction audio venue Escape Pod and the author of the 'Beneath the Rising' series of novels... Read More →

Sunday April 18, 2021 17:00 - 17:30 UTC
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17:00 UTC

[FULL] Traditional Watercolor Painting led by Liana Stadelmann

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An interactive workshop where I teach participants how to create traditional watercolor paintings. I will be teaching basic watercolor techiniques and talking about the watercolor supplies that I use and recommend.

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Liana Stadelmann

Owner, Aquabun LLC

I am professional watercolor artist specializing in whimsical, fantasy animal paintings. I am completely self taught having been drawing since the age of 3 consistently throughout my life and my passion for watercolor started about 5 years ago. I've always had a huge love of all things... Read More →

Sunday April 18, 2021 17:00 - 17:50 UTC
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17:30 UTC

[FULL] Kaffeeklatsch led by Brandon O'Brien

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Brandon O'Brien

Brandon O’Brien is a writer, performance poet, teaching artist and game designer from Trinidad and Tobago. His work has been shortlisted for the 2014 Alice Yard Prize for Art Writing, the 2014 and 2015 Small Axe Literary Competitions, and the inaugural Ignyte Award for Best in Speculative... Read More →

Sunday April 18, 2021 17:30 - 18:00 UTC
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18:00 UTC

[FULL] Kaffeeklatsch led by Yilun Fan

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World SF, translation, SF film and TV series

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Yilun Fan

Sunday April 18, 2021 18:00 - 18:30 UTC
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18:00 UTC

[FULL] Writing Your Way into a Novel led by Cat Rambo

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Writing Your Way Into Your Novel: Participants come with an idea, we discuss how they go about making it into a novel.

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Cat Rambo

Attendee, SFWA

Cat Rambo has published 200+ short stories. In 2021 her book publications are fantasy novel Exiles of Tabat (May, Wordfire Press), anthology The Reinvented Heart, coedited with Jennifer Brozek (July, Arc Manor), and space opera, You Sexy Thing (September, Tor Macmillan).

Sunday April 18, 2021 18:00 - 20:50 UTC
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18:30 UTC

[Sign-Up Available] Kaffeeklatsch led by Bendi Barrett

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Bendi Barrett

Writer, Choice of Games

I'm a black gay writer, primarily of speculative fiction and interactive (speculative) fiction. I've written two games for Choice of Games, but I also write games using the Twine platform. I write erotic fiction under the pen name Benji Bright, and run a modest patreon to that end... Read More →

Sunday April 18, 2021 18:30 - 19:00 UTC
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19:00 UTC

[FULL] Kaffeeklatsch led by Chris "Doc" Wyatt

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Speculative fiction as R&D for future human development

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Doc

Sunday April 18, 2021 19:00 - 19:30 UTC
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19:30 UTC

[FULL] Kaffeeklatsch led by Monica Louzon

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writing what/where you know; coming up with writing ideas; female & lgbtq+ representation in speculative fiction; common pitfalls I see in submitted stories +/- when critiquing stories for others; conducting research before crowdfunding; red flags when submitting short fiction +/- poetry to markets; Star Wars; forming a writing group/community; ciencia ficcion vs science fiction & fantasy; cult saints

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Monica Louzon

Monica Louzon (she/her) is a writer, editor, and translator. Constelación Magazine published her translation of Vania T. Curtidor's story, "Imilla in January 2021. Her short fiction has appeared in The Dread Machine and The Internet Is Where The Robots Live now, and her poetry has... Read More →

Sunday April 18, 2021 19:30 - 20:00 UTC
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20:00 UTC

[FULL] Story Critique led by Katharine Duckett

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An in-depth, personalized story critique for workshop participants, based on my past writing, editing, and publicity and marketing work. we will dig into each participant's story and also do 1-2 short craft exercises to illustrate some hands-on approaches to revision and to reimagining your own work when you hit blocks or aren't sure what you need to fix.

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Katharine Duckett

Katharine Duckett is the award-winning author of Miranda in Milan, a Shakespearean fantasy novella debut that NPR calls "intriguing, adept, inventive, and sexy." Her short fiction has appeared on Tor.com and in Uncanny, Apex, PseudoPod, and Interzone, as well as various anthologies... Read More →

Sunday April 18, 2021 20:00 - 21:50 UTC
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21:00 UTC

[FULL] Kaffeeklatsch led by Christie Yant

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Christie Yant

Writer/Editor, Freelance

Christie Yant is a writer and co-Editor-in-Chief of Fantasy Magazine. In 2014 she edited the Women Destroy Science Fiction! special issue of Lightspeed Magazine, which won the British Fantasy Award for Best Anthology. She is the co-editor of four anthologies, and a consulting editor... Read More →

Sunday April 18, 2021 21:00 - 21:30 UTC
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21:00 UTC

[FULL] Writing the Other With Empathy led by Fabio Fernandes

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This workshop will be about how to avoid stereotypes when creating foreign characters. It would be a short workshop, covering matters of languages, cultures, and how to approach something you don't know with respect and active listening. I hope participants will get a better understanding of being the other, so they can better write the other.

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Fabio Fernandes

Fabio Fernandes lives in São Paulo, Brazil. He has published several books, among which the novels Os Dias da Peste and Back in the USSR (in Portuguese) and the collection L'Imitatore (in Italian). Also a translator, he is responsible for the translation to Brazilian Portuguese of... Read More →

Sunday April 18, 2021 21:00 - 22:50 UTC
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00:00 UTC

[Sign-Up Available] Kaffeeklatsch led by Farid Nad

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Accessibility in making artwork and approaching the professional art world as a disabled artist as well as the significance of sociolinguistics in cross-cultural interactions in the field

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Farid Nad

Freelance Illustrator, Farideacs Art

A 24 year old kampung kid hailing from a sleepy coastal town, Farid (he/dia) is a full-time freelance illustrator and english communications degree graduate.Farid's works feature themes of identity, belonging and hope, with most focusing on the intricacies of the malay identity and... Read More →

Monday April 19, 2021 00:00 - 00:30 UTC
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03:00 UTC

[FULL] Kaffeeklatsch led by Neil Clarke

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Neil Clarke

Editor, Clarkesworld Magazine

Neil Clarke (neil-clarke.com) is the editor of the Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning Clarkesworld Magazine and several anthologies, including the Best Science Fiction of the Year series. He has been a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Editor (Short Form) eight times, won the... Read More →

Monday April 19, 2021 03:00 - 03:30 UTC
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