This is a quick. last minute post to say that I will be doing a bookstore event tomorrow, November 19th at The Twisted Spine in Brooklyn. I will be joined by A.C. Wise, Clay McLeod Chapman, with Ellen Datlow and we will be reading from the Day & Night anthology.
You can get tickets here
This should be a fun event and a good chance to check out NYC’s new independent horror bookstore!
Hope to see you there!
It’s almost time for one of my favorite conventions of the year! Readercon is happening in less than two weeks and I’m super excited to see old friends and meet new people. Frankly, these days, community is more important than ever before.
This year I’m on a few panels, plus, I have a reading and a kaffeeklatsch. Here’s the schedule:
As always, if you are going to be at Readercon this year, please don’t hesitate to come say hello!
I’m so excited to be going to Readercon in person again this year! As I’ve said in the past, it’s one of my favorite conventions. But what makes this year noteworthy is that on Sunday, July 14th, I’ll be doing a special panel at Pandemonium Bookstore with John Wiswell, Elizabeth Bear, Scott Lynch, and Max Gladstone! (How cool is that?)
Here’s my Readercon schedule:
The Pandemonium Book store event is totally separate from Readercon and is open to everyone. It’s at 6:30pm on Sunday, July 14th. We’ll be having a Readercon-like panel, which basically means we’ll be geeking out about books and story craft for an hour. More information for that can be found here.
As always, I hope to see you at one of these events. Or if you run into me in the hallway or at the bookstore, please don’t hesitate to say hi.
My short story recommendation this time is The Spindle of Necessity by B. Pladek over at Strange Horizons!
As promised, here’s the second post of the weekend. I’ll be at Capclave on Sept. 29th – Oct 1st. As always, I’m so excited and it’ll be wonderful to meet up with old friends and make new ones.
Here’s my schedule:
If you’re going to be at Capclave this year, please come say hi!
I’m so excited to be going to Readercon in person again this year! This is one of my favorite conventions. On the docket this time, I have one panel, one reading, and one Meet The Prose event.
Here’s the Schedule:
Friday @ 2pm in Salon 4 – Do Short Stories Still Matter? – with John Chu Emma J. Gibbon A. T. Greenblatt (moderator) Nicole D. Sconiers Sheila Williams
Friday @ 10:30pm in Salon 4 – Meet the Prose – Lots of cool people listed for this one.
Saturday @ 3:30pm in Blue Hills – Reading
As always, I hope to see you at one of these events. Or if you run into me in the hallway, please don’t hesitate to say hi.
Last minute post just to say that I will be attending the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in Orlando this year. In fact, I’ll be there tomorrow afternoon. This is one of my favorite conferences and I’m excited to see old friends and meet new ones.
I’ll be on one programming item:
What: Author Reading!
When: Friday, March 17 at 2:30-4:00pm
Where: Vista B
With Who: Greg Bechtel, Kelley Eskridge, and Brian Biswas
If you’re going to be there, as always, please don’t hesitate to come say hello to me.
And finally, my short story recommendation for this post is Discreet Services Offered for Women Ridden by Hags by Stephanie Malia Morris over at Beneath Ceaseless Skies. (Go support this magazine if you can.)
Sadly, I won’t be able to make it in person to Worldcon this year. I have an important family event the next weekend and decided to try to avoid big social gatherings beforehand. I’m sad that I won’t be able to see friends and meet new people in person, but I am hoping to make it to World Fantasy Con in November.
However, I will be doing some online programming, including a virtual table talk, and would love to see people virtually. Here’s my schedule:
Virtual Table Talk – Friday, September 2 at 4:00pm CDT
Where: Airmeet Table Talk
Who: A. T. Greenblatt
Blending, Blurring, Evaporating Genres – Saturday, September 3 at 10:00am CDT
Where: Airmeet 4
Who: A. T. Greenblatt, Cassandra Rose Clarke (moderator), Julia Meitov Hersey, L. Marie Wood, Sherwood Smith
Description: Dragons in space? Magic robots? Speculative fiction has always refused to be confined between strict boundaries, and genre mashups and crossovers are now a common feature. How have our expectations for each genre changed over the years? How will they continue to change when “shelf space on a bookstore” is no longer a main concern?
One Hero to Save Them All – Saturday, September 3 at 2:30pm CDT
Where: Airmeet 3
Who: A. T. Greenblatt, Auston Habershaw, C.L. ClarkColin Alexander, John Appel (moderator), PJ Manney
Description: Many stories set in dystopias or featuring a revolution focus the narrative on a single, solitary hero. But is this realistic? Is it fair, either to the hero who must do all the work or to the secondary characters? Is it fair to readers, looking to effect changes in their own societies, to read about competent characters who can do it all? Come join the panelists as they explore and question examples of solitary heroes.
Hope to see you virtually this weekend!
I totally forgot to write this post and the conference is starting tomorrow. And, if all the flying goes smoothly, I will be in Minneapolis tonight. Also, I’m going to be on some panels. Additionally, I’m very excited to see people again in person and might not have finished my cup of coffee this morning yet, hence stream of consciousness-like wording of this post.
Anyway, here’s my schedule for 4th Street Fantasy:
Designing Worlds for Everyone – 4:00 PM Friday
Stella Evans (M), Avani Gadani, A.T. Greenblatt, Benjamin C. Kinney, Michael Merriam.
From airport scanners with only two body type defaults to facial recognition systems that can’t recognize BIPOC, unconscious—or conscious—design decisions from our world that treat people unequally seep into our fantasy worlds. Authors create fantastic worlds full of stairs wheelchair users can’t access or magic systems designed to erase disabilities. But there also exist magic writing systems that dyslexic users excel at and blind earthbenders who don’t have to overcome their disabilities in order to thrive. What are broad principles or specific ways of approaching world-building to include as many people in the fantasy as possible?
Ambiguous Narrative Stances – 11:30 AM Sunday
A.T. Greenblatt, Marissa Lingen, Jenn Lyons, Aja McCullough (M), Abra Staffin-Wiebe.
What kind of ambiguity serves a story, in endings and in narrative support? Raising complicated questions with no easy answers is all well and good; avoiding dealing with what they mean entirely is an abnegation of responsibility. We can’t control reader interpretations, and there can be power in letting readers fill in for themselves what goes, but when is failing to take an explicit stance a disservice to the reader, and how explicit is it important to be? Where is the line between an ambiguous ending that fails the reader by failing to take a stance, or that serves the reader in forcing them to think through implications to their logical conclusion and intentionally decide on their own reading?
As I said, very excited for this and if you’re there, please feel free to come say hello.
I can’t remember when I posted here last and honestly, I’m a little too lazy right now to check, but I think it’s been a while. I’m slowly getting used to living in a new city. Or at least getting a little less lost, which is nice. I’m really enjoying the springtime greenery and looking forward to summer.
Speaking of upcoming things, I will be at the virtual Nebula Convention next weekend (May 19th-May 22nd). I also have a virtual reading at NYRSF on June 7th. Here’s the information for both:
At the Nebulas, I’ll be on two panels:
The Future of Disability Representation – May 20th at 3pm PST – with Effie Seiberg, Andi C. Buchanan, Nicola Griffith, A. T. Greenblatt, and Nalini Haynes
Description: Writers with disabilities prop up excellent examples of representation, discuss how to overcome harmful tropes and stereotypes, and explore, the good, the bad, the ugly, and the future of portraying disability in SFF.
The Second Person and You – May 22nd at 10:30am – P H Lee, Suzan Palumbo, Lauren Ring, Eden Royce, and A. T. Greenblatt
Description: The second person is often regarded as difficult, complex, or experimental. But it doesn’t need to be! Explore how your work could benefit from this technique with authors who have intentionally and successfully written from this perspective.
My second event is an author reading at the NYRSF series. It will be streamed on the internet free for all on June 7th at 7pm!
Hope to see you virtually!
Hope this post finds you all healthy and safe. I’m going to keep this quick today because I’m not feeling well and am quite tired, but I wanted to let you know that I have some exciting things going on next weekend. And it will all be online!
Hope to see you (virtually) next weekend!
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