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Schedule for Readercon 2025

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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:

  • Reading: A.T. Greenblatt – Friday, July 18, 2025, 14:30 EST
    • Room: Empower / Embrace
  • Kaffeeklatsch: A. T. Greenblatt – Friday, July 18, 2025,18:00 EST
    • Room: Suite 830
  • Panel: Recycling, Reusing and Renewing Stories – Saturday, July 19, 2025, 10:00 EST
    • Room: Salon G/H
    • Description: At last year’s Readercon, Max Gladstone said that he modeled his Craft Sequence on Samuel R. Delany’s principle that the answer from one book in a series should become the problem of the next book. Some authors like to take multiple runs at the same story premise. What other ways do authors revisit their own work, what uses can that serve, and what are the pitfalls?
    • With: Gwynne Garfinkle, Marisca Pichette Max Gladstone P. Djèlí Clark
  • Panel: We Demand Stories About U.S. Policy – Sunday, July 20, 2025, 11:00 EST
    • Room: Create / Collaborate
    • Description: We Demand Stories is Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers’ limited series salon. AI, eco-fiction, near future space exploration, post-Tolkien (postcolonial) world building, and death: BSFW takes on these topics and more with writers and academics who can broaden our understanding beyond the fear-driven news feed. After very brief readings from panelists, this salon invites the audience to join in a uniquely formatted conversation about U.S. policy. What are the many ways it affects the stories we’re telling now, or want to talk about in the future? 
    • With: Beto O’Byrne, Bradley Robert Parks, BrightFlame, Rachel Gutin, and Rob Cameron

As always, if you are going to be at Readercon this year, please don’t hesitate to come say hello!

Readercon 2024 and Event at Pandemonium

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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!

Readercon Schedule 2023!

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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.

Theodore Sturgeon Finalist and Other Updates

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Okay, so how cool is this: “If We Make It Through This Alive” is a finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award! This story was originally published in Slate Magazine’s Future Tense Fiction and came out in January 2022. I’m thrilled its on a finalist among so many amazing stories and authors. (Seriously, the list of finalists is fantastic this year.)

In other news, I’ve been writing some new things again. Or rather writing and being able to reach “The End” on smaller projects. I’ve spent most of the 2023 working on a longer piece, which is one of the hardest things I’ve ever written and consequently, the going is painfully slow. But I’ve been writing long enough to know that this is my process when I’m pushing the limits of my writing abilities. Stories have minds of their own and they will take as long as they need to sometimes.

Except I had to take a break and tackle some solicited work this summer. Some of which I’m not going to talk about just yet. But I can share that my essay “More Than a Journey: Reflections on Polyvocal Storytelling” will be in a forthcoming issue of Fantasy Magazine (possibly in August). I’m also writing a story for this anthology. Mad science written by disabled and chronically ill authors.

One last thing, I’ll be at Readercon this year! The schedule in not final yet, so I’ll post again when it is.

As always, if you’d like to support a magazine, Strange Horizons is currently running its annual Kickstarter. And my short story recommendation this time is “The Golden Hour” by Jeffery Ford.

Schedule for Readercon 2021

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Happy summer, everyone! (Or happy winter if you’re in the southern hemisphere.) This is simply a quick post to say that I will be at virtual Readercon on August 13-15th and will part of programming for the first time! Here’s my schedule:

The Emotions of Dystopia – Sunday, August 15th at 10 am EST

  • With Scott Edelman, Aliza Greenblatt, Bracken MacLeod, Sabrina Vourvoulias, Holly Lyn Walrath
  • Panel Description: Dull and even miserable affect and emotion have been hallmarks of the dystopia genre since 1984 and Brave New World, with joy depicted as fleeting and pleasure considered hollow or fake. But in the real world, emotional responses to hardship vary from person to person and from culture to culture. Panelists will probe and challenge the cultural and aesthetic basis for the supposed authenticity of unmitigated bleakness in dystopia and consider other emotional tones that dystopian stories might explore.

Author Reading – Sunday, August 15th at 2:30 pm EST

Hope to see you there if you’re planning on attending the convention, either at the panels or on the Discord server!