Kevin Hearne is the author of A Plague of Giants and the New York Times and USA Today bestselling series The Iron Druid Chronicles, and of Star Wars: Heir to the Jedi. He hugs trees, pets doggies, and rocks out to heavy metal. He also thinks tacos are a… Read more
Amal El-Mohtar is an award-winning writer of fiction, poetry, and criticism. Her stories and poems have appeared in magazines including Tor.com, Fireside Fiction, Lightspeed, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, Apex, Stone Telling, and Mythic Delirium; anthologies including The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories (2017), The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales… Read more
David Demchuk has been writing for print, stage, digital and other media for nearly 40 years. His debut horror novel The Bone Mother won the 2018 Sunburst Award in the Adult Fiction category, and was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Amazon First Novel Award, the Toronto Book Award… Read more
Canadian author/former biologist Julie E. Czerneda shares her curiosity about living things and optimism about life through her science fiction and fantasy, published by DAW Books, NY. Her most recent fantasy, The Gossamer Mage, won the 2020 Aurora for Best English Novel. Julie’s 21st latest novel, Mirage, was released this August, as Esen’s misadventures continue… Read more
Eric Choi is a Toronto-based writer, editor and aerospace engineer. His work has appeared in over 20 publications. He co-edited the hard SF anthology Carbide Tipped Pens with Ben Bova and the Chinese-themed anthology The Dragon and the Stars with Derwin Mak. His latest story “F. – A Post-Modern Prometheus”,… Read more
Hello all! Thank you all so very much for the Aurora Award nomination, for our fifth year in a row! As some of you may know, my co-chair, Derek Künsken, is currently somewhere in the world that is not here. Ergo, I have invited his programming leads, Brandon Crilly and… Read more
Kelly Robson is an award-winning short fiction writer whose work appears in major speculative fiction markets. Many of her stories have been selected for year’s best anthologies, and have been translated internationally. She’s a regular contributor to Clarkesworld’s Another Word column. In 2018, her time travel adventure novella Gods, Monsters… Read more
Charlie Jane Anders’ latest novel is The City in the Middle of the Night. She’s also the author of All the Birds in the Sky, which won the Nebula, Crawford and Locus awards, and Choir Boy, which won a Lambda Literary Award. Plus a novella called Rock Manning Goes For… Read more
Can*Con 2019 will be even more special! For those who don’t know, Canada has literary science fiction and fantasy awards called the Aurora Awards, which go to works of science fiction and fantasy by Canadians and permanent residents. Conferences like Can*Con bid for the honour of hosting them and this… Read more
DongWon Song is an agent at Howard Morhaim Literary Agency representing science fiction and fantasy for adults, young adult, and middle grade readers as well as select non-fiction. He was formerly an editor at Orbit, a product manager for an ebook startup, and has taught as an adjunct instructor in the… Read more