Name: Old Wine in New Bottles: All Things Retellings
Start: 2025-05-25T15:00:00-0500
End: 2025-05-25T15:45:00-0500

WisCon 2025

Sunday May 25, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm CDT

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From fairy tails, to Disney, to comic books, it seems old stories are much more likely to be recreated than new stories told. Why is this happening? What is the value of telling old stories again? What are the pitfalls?

Guests of Honor

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 →

Panelists

Cecilia Tan

Founder and editor emeritus, Circlet Press

Cecilia Tan is the award-winning author of over a dozen novels (and three collections of short stories) including the Magic University series and The Prince's Boy . Her work has appeared everywhere from Ms. Magazine and Asimov's to Nerve and Best American Erotica. Her novel Slow Surrender... Read More →

Daphne Strasert (she/her)

www.tomeworksedits.com

Jaye Viner (She/Her)

https://JayeViner.com

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 →

Sunday May 25, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm CDT
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