Monique Manatch is a member of the Algonquins of Barriere Lake. Monique is a Knowledge Keeper working closely with Algonquin Elder Albert Dumont. Currently, Monique is a student at Carleton University taking a doctorate program in Anthropology focusing on the impact, use and creation of digital arts in the Indigenous… 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
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
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
Waubgeshig Rice is an author and journalist from Wasauksing First Nation. He has written three fiction titles, and his short stories and essays have been published in numerous anthologies. His most recent novel, Moon of the Crusted Snow, was published in 2018 and became a national bestseller. He graduated from… Read more
Tracy Townsend is the author of The Nine and The Fall (books 1 and 2 in the Thieves of Fate series), a monthly columnist for the feminist sf magazine Luna Station Quarterly, and an essayist for Uncanny Magazine. She’s the former chair of the English department at the Illinois Mathematics… Read more
Avi Silver is an author and editor of speculative fiction. They co-created The Shale Project, an award-winning indie arts collective, and are passionate about stories that wield tenderness as a tool of change. Their first novel, Two Dark Moons, was released in 2019, with the sequel due out this summer…. Read more
Kari Maaren is a writer, cartoonist, musician, and academic whose first novel, the YA fantasy Weave a Circle Round, was published by Tor Books in 2017. It tied for the 2018 Copper Cylinder Award (YA category), was a finalist for the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and… Read more
Kate Heartfield writes science fiction and fantasy, including the Aurora-winning novel Armed in Her Fashion and the Nebula-shortlisted novella Alice Payne Arrives, along with dozens of stories. She is the author of The Road to Canterbury and The Magician’s Workshop, both of which were shortlisted for the Nebula in game… Read more
Another timely event coming from Can*Con! A lot of being a professional creative is out of our control, which admittedly … kinda sucks. Issues with publishers, lack of sales, deals falling through, and more can put a serious block on not just your career, but also your energy to continue… Read more