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Friday, May 23
 

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 →
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LN
avatar for Tara King
WV
Friday May 23, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm CDT
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2:00pm CDT

Help I'm Ace and No One Sees Me
Friday May 23, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm CDT
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Panel Discussion of Asexual lived experiences and representation in SFF.
Panelists
avatar for AJ Super (she/they)

AJ Super (she/they)

AJ Super is a queer, disabled author trying their best to write diverse, queer, and disability normative science fiction and fantasy worlds. A member of Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers and a full SFWA member, they have a trilogy published by Aethon Books and Blackstone Audio... Read More →
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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
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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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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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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
avatar for AJ Super (she/they)

AJ Super (she/they)

AJ Super is a queer, disabled author trying their best to write diverse, queer, and disability normative science fiction and fantasy worlds. A member of Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers and a full SFWA member, they have a trilogy published by Aethon Books and Blackstone Audio... Read More →
AH
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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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