Greetings! Important update from the Can*Con command deck, looking ahead to the rest of this year and beyond. First, though, we want to take a moment to thank our amazing volunteers. Over the past year, they’ve been hosting mini events to educate and entertain, and bring the community together. So… Read more
Where Are Your Parents, Kid? Writing the Family – When sending a scrappy protagonist off on their adventures, many creators start by doing away with those pesky parents, but what can be gained from keeping them and other family members in the story? Beyond that, why do we as readers… Read more
Tonya Liburd shares a birthday with Simeon Daniel and Ray Bradbury, which may tell you a little something about her. She is a 2017 and 2018 Rhysling nominee, and has been longlisted in the 2015 Carter V. Cooper (Vanderbilt)/Exile Short Fiction Competition. Her fiction is used in Nisi Shawl’s workshops,… Read more
Liz Westbrook-Trenholm has published or aired mainstream and speculative short fiction on radio, in magazines and in anthologies, most recently in Shades Within Us (Laksa Media), Over the Rainbow (Exile Press), Tesseracts 22 (Edge) and Amazing Stories. She won the Prix Aurora Award for short fiction in 2018 and had… Read more
José Pablo Iriarte is a Cuban-American writer and teacher who lives in Central Florida. José’s fiction can be found in magazines such as Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Uncanny, and others, and has been reprinted in numerous year’s best anthologies. Their novelette, “The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births,”… Read more
‘Nathan Burgoine is a tall queer guy who writes mostly shorter queer things, though he has managed four novels in between. His debut SF novel, Light, was a Lambda Literary Finalist, and his first YA novel, Exit Plans for Teenage Freaks, was a finalist for the Prix Aurora Award. He’s written… Read more
Fonda Lee is the author of the epic urban fantasy Green Bone Saga (beginning with Jade City and continuing in Jade War and the forthcoming Jade Legacy) and the science fiction novels Zeroboxer, Exo and Cross Fire. Fonda is a winner of the World Fantasy Award, as well as a three-time… Read more
Across genres, writers draw on legends, mythology, and folklore for inspiration and sometimes subversion in their work–both in individual stories, and across their entire careers. Sometimes we adapt that folklore faithfully and use it foundationally in our work; other times it’s a jumping-off point, a faint outline, a passing reference…. Read more
When S.M. Carrière isn’t brutally killing your favourite characters, she spends her time teaching martial arts, live streaming video games, and cuddling her cat. In other words, she spends her time teaching others to kill, streaming her digital kills, and cuddling a furry murderer. Read more
Rati Mehrotra is an Indo-Canadian science fiction and fantasy writer. She is the author of the Asiana duology: Markswoman and Mahimata. Her short fiction has been shortlisted for The Sunburst Award and has appeared in multiple venues including The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed Magazine, Uncanny Magazine and… Read more