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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 →
Panelists
LN
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 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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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
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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Saturday, May 24
 

1:00pm CDT

The True Diversity of Neurodiversity
Saturday May 24, 2025 1:00pm - 1:45pm CDT
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Contrary to past assumptions, neurodiversity presents in many forms across all genders and backgrounds. As neurodiverse creatives work to empower ourselves, how can we promote more varied and positive representations across books, shows, and comics?
Panelists
avatar for Angela Super
avatar for Clara Ward, they/them

Clara Ward, they/them

https://clarawardauthor.wordpress.com/
avatar for Daphne Strasert (she/her)

Daphne Strasert (she/her)

www.tomeworksedits.com
Saturday May 24, 2025 1:00pm - 1:45pm CDT
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2:00pm CDT

The Year in Trans SFF
Saturday May 24, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm CDT
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What's new in trans SFF? We'll talk about new books, new authors, new shows, new games. What's got us excited? What's out there? Let's celebrate it and talk about it!
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 Roy Salzman-Cohen (He/Him)
avatar for Ursula Whitcher (They/She)

Ursula Whitcher (They/She)

Ursula Whitcher is a writer, mathematician, and poet whose work has appeared in places including The Deadlands, Frivolous Comma, and Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. A collection of linked short stories, North Continent Ribbon, is published by Neon Hemlock Press.
avatar for Valerie Estelle Frankel

Valerie Estelle Frankel

Author, Pop Culture Author
Valerie Estelle Frankel is the author of 90 books on pop culture, including Women in Doctor Who and Hunting for Meaning in the Mandalorian. Many of her books focus on women's roles in fiction, from her heroine's journey guides From Girl to Goddess and Buffy and the Heroine's Journey... Read More →
Saturday May 24, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm CDT
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3:00pm CDT

Help I've predicted the future!
Saturday May 24, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm CDT
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In her essay "A Few Rules for Predicting the Future", Octavia Butler talks about a few ways to do just that, and she has done it quite well in her Parable books. The Simpsons has also done it. Have you yourself done it, in writing, in art, in a social media post, or talking to friends and family? You've predicted the future, now what? We've predicted the future, now what do we do?
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
JF

Joyce Frohn

Joyce is trying to be a writer. From the USA.
avatar for Marie Vibbert

Marie Vibbert

Author
https://marievibbert.com
Saturday May 24, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm CDT
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7:00pm CDT

Do Magic Systems *Really* Need to Have All the Rules Spelled Out?
Saturday May 24, 2025 7:00pm - 7:45pm CDT
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To what degree do the magic systems in your SFF really need to have all the rules explained, a la RPGs? When do you use a hard magic system? A soft magic system? Do your deities need to be consistent? Shall we fight about Brandon Sanderson's Rules of Magic?
 
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
avatar for Genevieve Clovis (she/her)

Genevieve Clovis (she/her)

Clovis Editorial, Clovis Editorial
https://cloviseditorial.com/
PS

Priya Sridhar

A 2016 MBA graduate and published author, Priya Sridhar has been writing fantasy and science fiction for fifteen years, and counting. Capstone published the Powered series, and Alban Lake published her works Carousel and Neo-Mecha Mayhem. Priya lives in Miami, Florida with her fa... Read More →
Saturday May 24, 2025 7:00pm - 7:45pm CDT
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7:00pm CDT

Games We Love
Saturday May 24, 2025 7:00pm - 7:45pm CDT
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The cost of producing a new video game has increased exponentially, causing major producers to invest in developing few and often more conservative, less risky projects. Come talk about games that you feel are doing creative work and going beyond standard narratives
Panelists
avatar for Katherine Souza
SH
avatar for Ursula Whitcher (They/She)

Ursula Whitcher (They/She)

Ursula Whitcher is a writer, mathematician, and poet whose work has appeared in places including The Deadlands, Frivolous Comma, and Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. A collection of linked short stories, North Continent Ribbon, is published by Neon Hemlock Press.
Saturday May 24, 2025 7:00pm - 7:45pm CDT
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8:00pm CDT

Citizen Sleeper's Personhood in Capitalism
Saturday May 24, 2025 8:00pm - 8:45pm CDT
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Come together and discuss Citizen Sleeper, Concord, and other games that expand gameplay into survival through relationships
Saturday May 24, 2025 8:00pm - 8:45pm CDT
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Sunday, May 25
 

10:00am CDT

Eco Fiction: Where We've Been, Where We're Going
Sunday May 25, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am CDT
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Panelists discuss changes they've seen in climate-related SFF, what has stayed the same, what's new. Visions for hope and change
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
avatar for Clara Ward, they/them

Clara Ward, they/them

https://clarawardauthor.wordpress.com/
avatar for Kate

Kate

Attendee
badphairy@gmail.com
avatar for Sean Morrissey Carroll

Sean Morrissey Carroll

Writers Lunch, Writers Lunch
Https://realityaheadofschedule.WordPress.com
Sunday May 25, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am CDT
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2:00pm CDT

The Wild World of Modern Agtech and why isn't it showing up in current SF?
Sunday May 25, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm CDT
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 Agriculture these days has some wild and woolly frontiers happening, between precision agriculture, vertical farming, fermentation technology, and more that can cross over into areas of security, pharmacology, and more. It ain't Grandpa's farm anymore.
Moderators
avatar for Ursula Whitcher (They/She)

Ursula Whitcher (They/She)

Ursula Whitcher is a writer, mathematician, and poet whose work has appeared in places including The Deadlands, Frivolous Comma, and Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. A collection of linked short stories, North Continent Ribbon, is published by Neon Hemlock Press.
Panelists
avatar for Annalee Newitz

Annalee Newitz

writer
www.techsploitation.com
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 →
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Sunday May 25, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm CDT
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3:00pm CDT

Old Wine in New Bottles: All Things Retellings
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
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 →
Panelists
avatar for Cecilia Tan

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 →
avatar for Daphne Strasert (she/her)

Daphne Strasert (she/her)

www.tomeworksedits.com
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 →
Sunday May 25, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm CDT
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