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. How do we as writers connect to the folklore that has been passed down to us? How do we make these stories accessible to readers who might not be familiar with them? How much license do we have to reshape and reconfigure those stories in their retelling? How do we avoid appropriation (and can we) when using the folklore of cultures not our own?
This event will take place on April 9th, 2021 at 7:00pm EST
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Moderator
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 Fantasy, and was shortlisted for the Sunburst Award (YA category). Kari has a completed webcomic, West of Bathurst, and an active one, the double-Aurora-winning It Never Rains, and she has produced two independent albums, Beowulf Pulled My Arm Off and Everybody Hates Elves. She lives in Toronto with too many musical instruments and an astounding number of books.
Panelists
KT Bryski is a Canadian author and podcaster. Her short fiction has appeared in Lightspeed, Nightmare, Augur, and Apex, among others, and her audio dramas are available wherever fine podcasts are found. She is the co-chair of the Ephemera Reading Series, a Parsec Award winner, and a past finalist for the Aurora and Sunburst Awards. Find her on Twitter @ktbryski.
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.
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, and in Tananarive Due’s black horror course at UCLA as examples of ‘code switching’. You can find her blogging at https://thespiderlilly.wordpress.com/ or on Twitter at @somesillywowzer, or you can join her Patreon at www.Patreon.com/TonyaLiburd.
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 Ryerson University‘s journalism program in 2002, and spent most of his journalism career with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a video journalist and radio host. He left CBC in 2020 to focus on his literary career. He lives in Sudbury, Ontario with his wife and two sons.