WisCon 2025: Full Schedule

WisCon 2025

4:00pm CDT

Writing religion in SFF

Friday May 23, 2025 4:00pm - 4:45pm CDT

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 →

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

Benjamin Rosenbaum

Em Lupton (she/they)

S. Qiouyi Lu

https://s.qiouyi.lu/

Friday May 23, 2025 4:00pm - 4:45pm CDT
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Writing and Publishing

10:00am CDT

Pathways to Publishing

Saturday May 24, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am CDT

Zoom 3

There are so many ways to tell stories and reach readers. This panel will discuss the perspectives of a variety of professionals working in different forms of publishing

Guests of Honor

Naomi Kritzer

Panelists

Rebecca M. Zornow she/her

Shannon Winton (she/her)

Tomeworks Editing, Tomeworks Editing

www.tomeworksedits.com

Saturday May 24, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am CDT
Zoom 3

Writing and Publishing

4:00pm CDT

Small Press Publishing

Saturday May 24, 2025 4:00pm - 4:45pm CDT

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This panel presents a variety of ways of vetting and evaluating small presses. Why they'd be a good fit for you. What to look out for with predatory contracts, hybrid presses, distribution and creative control.

Panelists

Catherine Lundoff

Queen of Swords Press, Queen of Swords Press

www.queenofswordspress.com

Clara Ward, they/them

https://clarawardauthor.wordpress.com/

Jaye Viner (She/Her)

https://JayeViner.com

Saturday May 24, 2025 4:00pm - 4:45pm CDT
Zoom 3

Writing and Publishing

10:00am CDT

Going Beyond Representation: Speculations on Creating Disabled World Building

Sunday May 25, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am CDT

Zoom 3

Many conversations about disability focus on 'accurate' or representative characters, which is great. But many times they are most recognized as disabled because they live in a world of able assumptions. What then does disabled worldbuilding look like? Who has done it? Where do we start? Panel can include a discussion of HBO's See, and John L Clarke's Touch the Future.

Panelists

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 →

Carlie Forsythe (she/her)

Jaye Viner (She/Her)

https://JayeViner.com

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.

Sunday May 25, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am CDT
Zoom 3

Writing and Publishing

4:00pm CDT

The Creation and Care of Mythical Creatures

Sunday May 25, 2025 4:00pm - 4:45pm CDT

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Science is often seen as a limiting factor in creativity, but this panel wants to turn the tables and use science as a source of creativity, taking what is possible and using it as a launching point for the creation of new species.

Panelists

Alma Alexander she/her

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 →