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Friday, May 23
 

10:00am CDT

Online Hangout
Friday May 23, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am CDT
Come hang out and chat with your fellow WisCon attendees about the con, your interests, or anything going on! Video welcome but not required.  
Friday May 23, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am CDT
  Hang Out

1:00pm CDT

Spotlight On: Speculative Literature Foundation
Friday May 23, 2025 1:00pm - 1:45pm CDT
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Panelists
AP
Friday May 23, 2025 1:00pm - 1:45pm CDT
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  Special Panel

1:00pm CDT

WisCon's Gap year
Friday May 23, 2025 1:00pm - 1:45pm CDT
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Come hear what WisCon volunteers have been up to during the gap year and what we're dreaming about for the future
Panelists
avatar for Rita Briar

Rita Briar

SF3 Secretary & Personnel Chair, SF3
Speculative fiction writer, volunteer sf3 organizer, and gardener
Friday May 23, 2025 1:00pm - 1:45pm CDT
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  Special Panel

2:00pm CDT

Good News, Everyone!
Friday May 23, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm CDT
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What good news is out there in the world? Advances in medicine, breakthroughs in climate change, what do you have for us? Does it come with a Professor Farnsworth caveat?
Guests of Honor
avatar for Andrea Hairston

Andrea Hairston

Andrea Hairston is a novelist, playwright, poet, and L. Wolff Kahn 1931 Professor Emerita of Theatre and Africana Studies at Smith College. She ran away from the physics lab to the theatre when she was a young thing and has been a scientist, artiste, and hoodoo conjurer ever since... Read More →
Panelists
LN
WV
Friday May 23, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm CDT
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  Panel

2:00pm CDT

Help I'm Ace and No One Sees Me Roundtable
Friday May 23, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm CDT
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Panel Discussion of Asexual lived experiences and representation in SFF.
Moderators
avatar for Angela Super
Panelists
avatar for Anna Holmes

Anna Holmes

Anna is the author of two YA fantasy series (Ember of Elyssia Quartet, Fortune's Calling Trilogy), an adult romantasy (The Bridal Party), and adult high fantasy (The Prince With Six Faces). All of her books feature queer and disabled characters. She is headed to the University of... Read More →
CF
avatar for J.R. Dawson (She/They)

J.R. Dawson (She/They)

Writer
Dawson (she/they) has been seen in places like The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Escape Pod, Lightspeed, and DSF. Her debut novel, The First Bright Thing, is now available from Tor. Find her at www.jrdawsonwriter.com and on twitter @j_r_dawson.
Friday May 23, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm CDT
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  Panel

2:00pm CDT

Infernal Salon with C.S.E. Cooney
Friday May 23, 2025 2:00pm - 3:45pm CDT
A low-stakes writing workshop with prompts pulled from cards from the TTRPG "Negocios Infernales."
Friday May 23, 2025 2:00pm - 3:45pm CDT
  Workshop

3:00pm CDT

Beyond Western Storytelling
Friday May 23, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm CDT
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Mainstream media is dominated by western storytelling structure. This panel offers alternative structures and also promises to expand your reading and watch list with stories that go beyond. 
Guests of Honor
avatar for Andrea Hairston

Andrea Hairston

Andrea Hairston is a novelist, playwright, poet, and L. Wolff Kahn 1931 Professor Emerita of Theatre and Africana Studies at Smith College. She ran away from the physics lab to the theatre when she was a young thing and has been a scientist, artiste, and hoodoo conjurer ever since... Read More →
Panelists
SQ

S. Qiouyi Lu

https://s.qiouyi.lu/
Friday May 23, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm CDT
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  Panel

3:00pm CDT

US immigration law and Worldwide Fandom Roundtable
Friday May 23, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm CDT
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A space to discuss the way US immigration law is becoming actively hostile and making conventions like WisCon in person potentially seriously unsafe for non-US-based fans.
Panelists
CM
Friday May 23, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm CDT
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  Resistance

4:00pm CDT

Reading Group 1
Friday May 23, 2025 4:00pm - 4:45pm CDT
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Panelists
avatar for Chris Gerrib

Chris Gerrib

Chris Gerrib has been an avid fan of science fiction and space exploration since he was a child riding his bicycle to his small town’s library where he memorized every book they had on the subject.  Since then he spent a tour in the US Navy, got an MBA, and now has a day job with... Read More →
KA
RM
avatar for Yilin Wang

Yilin Wang

www.yilinwang.com
Friday May 23, 2025 4:00pm - 4:45pm CDT
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  Readings

4:00pm CDT

Banned Books Roundtable
Friday May 23, 2025 4:00pm - 4:45pm CDT
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Holding space for people to gather and talk about book banning, activism, etc.
Moderators
GG

Gwynne Garfinkle

Attendee
https://gwynnegarfinkle.com
Friday May 23, 2025 4:00pm - 4:45pm CDT
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  Resistance

4:00pm CDT

Writing religion in SFF
Friday May 23, 2025 4:00pm - 4:45pm CDT
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Guests of Honor
avatar for Naomi Kritzer

Naomi Kritzer

Naomi Kritzer is a science fiction and fantasy writer from St. Paul, Minnesota. In Minneapolis and St. Paul, she is probably best known for her political blog, which provides deep-dive information on candidates in local political races. Outside of the Twin Cities, she is best known... Read More →
avatar for Andrea Hairston

Andrea Hairston

Andrea Hairston is a novelist, playwright, poet, and L. Wolff Kahn 1931 Professor Emerita of Theatre and Africana Studies at Smith College. She ran away from the physics lab to the theatre when she was a young thing and has been a scientist, artiste, and hoodoo conjurer ever since... Read More →
Panelists
avatar for Benjamin Rosenbaum
EL
SQ

S. Qiouyi Lu

https://s.qiouyi.lu/
Friday May 23, 2025 4:00pm - 4:45pm CDT
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  Writing and Publishing

7:00pm CDT

Breathe the Pressure: Burnout and Recovery for Creatives
Friday May 23, 2025 7:00pm - 7:45pm CDT
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A discussion of creative burnout, its meaning, signs, and finding a path to recovery.
Panelists
AH
avatar for Angela Super
avatar for Jaye Viner (She/Her)

Jaye Viner (She/Her)

https://JayeViner.com
avatar for Melissa Watkins

Melissa Watkins

Melissa A Watkins is a writer now, but used to be a teacher, a singer, an actress, and a very bad translator(thankfully, not all at the same time).. Her short stories have previously appeared in midnight & indigo, khoreo, Fantasy Magazine, Lightspeed and The Magazine of Fantasy... Read More →
Friday May 23, 2025 7:00pm - 7:45pm CDT
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  Panel

7:00pm CDT

THE REVENGE OF THE SISTERHOOD OF THE NOT ANOTHER RACE PANEL
Friday May 23, 2025 7:00pm - 7:45pm CDT
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Panelists
avatar for K.M. Enright (he/him)

K.M. Enright (he/him)

K. M. Enright is the Sunday Times Bestselling author of MISTRESS OF LIES and the upcoming LORD OF RUIN (August, 2025). Find out more about his writing at kmenright.com or follow him on social media at @KM_Enright.
avatar for Keila Gallardo Cubas (They/He/She)
Friday May 23, 2025 7:00pm - 7:45pm CDT
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  Special Panel

7:00pm CDT

Vid Party
Friday May 23, 2025 7:00pm - 11:00pm CDT
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Friday May 23, 2025 7:00pm - 11:00pm CDT
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8:00pm CDT

Wheel of Time
Friday May 23, 2025 8:00pm - 8:45pm CDT
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Season Three and what we're hoping for the future.
Panelists
WV
Friday May 23, 2025 8:00pm - 8:45pm CDT
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  Fandom

8:00pm CDT

Editing Alive with Rebecca Zornow
Friday May 23, 2025 8:00pm - 8:45pm CDT
Hone your editing eye with this interactive and practical editing talk from a speculative fiction expert. Writers will learn best practices for developmental and line editing for fantasy and science fiction projects as they work through story samples with author and book coach Rebecca M. Zornow.
Panelists
RM
Friday May 23, 2025 8:00pm - 8:45pm CDT
  Workshop
 
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