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Saturday, November 9
 

9:00am CST

Writer's Workshop 1
Saturday November 9, 2024 9:00am - 12:00pm CST
Butterfield
Entries:
"Iguana Soup" by Kevin J. Miller
"A Place to Call Home" by Robert Hobson
Moderators
OK
Speakers
avatar for Sue Burke

Sue Burke

Sue Burke’s most recent science fiction novel is Usurpation, published on October 29, the conclusion of the trilogy that began with Semiosis and Interference. She began writing professionally as a teenager, working for newspapers and magazines as a reporter and editor, and began... Read More →
avatar for K. M. Herkes

K. M. Herkes

Author, Dawnrigger Publishing
I write books, tell tales, and generally spin stories in as many ways as I can. I also like to sing but not on stage, dance but rarely when anyone is watching, and take many pictures of my cat.
avatar for Gracie York

Gracie York

Guild Founder and Head Editor, York Editing Guild
Gracie York is the guild founder and head editor of the York Editing Guild, offering editorial services to self-published authors. She's also edited everything from medical textbooks to sci-fi/fantasy books for traditional publishers.Gracie accidentally writes things in her spare... Read More →
Saturday November 9, 2024 9:00am - 12:00pm CST
Butterfield
  Writer's, Workshop

9:00am CST

Writer's Workshop 2
Saturday November 9, 2024 9:00am - 12:00pm CST
Camden
Entries:
"The Pain Creeper Sisterhood" by Tina Jens
"Trapped" by N. Frances Moritz
Moderators
avatar for Mary Mascari

Mary Mascari

Writer
I'm about to graduate from Seton Hill University with an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction. It's a great program that specializes in genre fiction. I write SF, Fantasy, and mystery. I've got two novels I'm shopping around (one time travel, one steampunk) and I'm submitting short stories... Read More →
Speakers
avatar for Jody Lynn Nye

Jody Lynn Nye

Special Gusets; Moderator
Jody Lynn Nye lists her main career activity as ‘spoiling cats.’ When not engaged upon this worthy occupation, she writes fantasy and science fiction books and short stories.Before breaking away from gainful employment to write full time, Jody worked as a file clerk, book-keeper... Read More →
N
avatar for R.J. Howell

R.J. Howell

Rob is a reformed medieval academic who draws upon those skills and resources for his stories and settings. He has also been an IT professional, a cook, and a soda jerk. As a child, his parents discovered about the only way to keep him quiet was to give him a book. Without books... Read More →
Saturday November 9, 2024 9:00am - 12:00pm CST
Camden
  Writer's, Workshop

11:00am CST

Writing & Editing Techniques For The Neurodivergent and Disabled
Saturday November 9, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm CST
York
Moderators
avatar for Llewella Forgie

Llewella Forgie

Llewella Forgie is an award-wining author who creates stories of tenacious women battling injustice and creating their own happily-ever-after.  Her current work-in-progress is a pentalogy that takes place in Europe in 1802.  France is planning to invade, people with psychic powers... Read More →
Speakers
avatar for Donna J W Munro

Donna J W Munro

Donna J. W. Munro teaches high schoolers the slippery truths of government and history at her day job. Her students are her greatest inspiration. She lives with five cats, a cute curly-haired dog, a fur-covered husband, a sassy septuagenarian Mama, and an encyclopedia son. Her daughter... Read More →
SA
Saturday November 9, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm CST
York
  Writer's, Panel

12:00pm CST

The Trouble With Humor: The Challenges & Quirks of Writing With Humor
Saturday November 9, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm CST
Camden
Is it funnier in my head or on the paper?
Moderators
avatar for Jody Lynn Nye

Jody Lynn Nye

Special Gusets; Moderator
Jody Lynn Nye lists her main career activity as ‘spoiling cats.’ When not engaged upon this worthy occupation, she writes fantasy and science fiction books and short stories.Before breaking away from gainful employment to write full time, Jody worked as a file clerk, book-keeper... Read More →
Speakers
avatar for Clif Flynt

Clif Flynt

President, Noumena Corp
I'm a techie nerd. Unix/Linux user since the early '80s and programmer since the early '70s. I also write filks, humorous fiction (Well, I think it's humorous), and play guitar. My renewed interest in writing fiction led me to studying how to write well which led to Editomat (www.editomat.com... Read More →
avatar for Barbara Gregorich

Barbara Gregorich

I'm the author of nearly 200 books on various topics, prime among them the subject of women in baseball. For my research and writing on the history of women in baseball I was recently honored wit the SABR Dorothy Seymour Mills Lifetime Achievement Award. I've also written mystery... Read More →
avatar for David Hankins

David Hankins

Author, Lost Bard Enterprises
I am the award-winning author of Death and the Taxman about the Grim Reaper trapped in an IRS agent's dying body. He must regain his powers before he dies and faces judgment for his original sin. (Join me Sat at 10:00 for a reading of the first chapters!).My short stories have appeared... Read More →
avatar for Dex Greenbright

Dex Greenbright

Dex Greenbright is a writer of monsters both kind and cruel, an award-winning artist, and the editor, illustrator, and a contributing author for Tales of the Automazombs, a book series with steampunk cyborg zombies. He is a creative whirlwind, a magical master of dungeons, and the... Read More →
Saturday November 9, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm CST
Camden
  Writer's, Panel

1:00pm CST

Writing Characters with Disabilities
Saturday November 9, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm CST
York
In what ways will our writing need to change? Why or why not?
Moderators
avatar for Llewella Forgie

Llewella Forgie

Llewella Forgie is an award-wining author who creates stories of tenacious women battling injustice and creating their own happily-ever-after.  Her current work-in-progress is a pentalogy that takes place in Europe in 1802.  France is planning to invade, people with psychic powers... Read More →
Speakers
avatar for Malda Marlys

Malda Marlys

Malda Marlys teaches science just outside Chicago and writes the sort of speculative fiction that requires too many qualifiers for the normal flow of conversation. Fortunately the SFFH umbrella is wide (and kind of spooky and full of brass fittings and snakes). Eir short fiction has... Read More →
avatar for RhymesWithCamer

RhymesWithCamer

Hi!I'm Tamara (rhymes with camera).I'm just a reader who loves to gab about scifi/fantasy stuff.
avatar for W. A. Thomasson

W. A. Thomasson

I obtained a PhD in biochemistry but, lacking the patience for scientific research, switched into science/medical writing. Now retired, I have recently completed a first novel, a sword and sorcery work titled The Whip of Abadur, and am currently seeking a publisher. I am interested... Read More →
MR
Saturday November 9, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm CST
York
  Writer's, Panel

2:00pm CST

Reading & Writing Through the Female Gaze
Saturday November 9, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CST
York
Moderators
avatar for Sue Burke

Sue Burke

Sue Burke’s most recent science fiction novel is Usurpation, published on October 29, the conclusion of the trilogy that began with Semiosis and Interference. She began writing professionally as a teenager, working for newspapers and magazines as a reporter and editor, and began... Read More →
Speakers
avatar for Lisa Moe
DS
avatar for K. M. Herkes

K. M. Herkes

Author, Dawnrigger Publishing
I write books, tell tales, and generally spin stories in as many ways as I can. I also like to sing but not on stage, dance but rarely when anyone is watching, and take many pictures of my cat.
avatar for Alexis Craig
Saturday November 9, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CST
York
  Writer's, Panel

2:00pm CST

Screenwriting
Saturday November 9, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CST
Ogden
How it differs from novels, short stories and serials
Moderators
avatar for Chris Barkley

Chris Barkley

(Foreign) Correspondent, File770.com
Chris M. Barkley is a fan activist from Cincinnati, Ohio. He has been active in sf fandom for over 47 years and has attended over 200 conventions, including 31 World Science Fiction Conventions.He has also been a Convention Chair (Cinclave in 1986) a radio talk show host and producer... Read More →
Speakers
avatar for Ray Tabler

Ray Tabler

Author, Science Fiction You Can Enjoy
My aim is to write science fiction you can enjoy. So far that's manifested as what I call Light Space Opera. Imagine Starship Troopers, hijacked by Monty Python, or space opera as produced by Gilbert and Sullivan, while bankrolled and bullied by Flo Ziegfeld. Additional links:Ray's... Read More →
DR
KS
Saturday November 9, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CST
Ogden
  Writer's, Panel

2:00pm CST

The Red Line Test
Saturday November 9, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CST
Camden
Will readers keep reading after your first page? If not, why?
Moderators
BF

Bill Fawcett

Special Guest, Bill Fawcett & Associates
Speakers
avatar for Steven Silver

Steven Silver

Steven H Silver is a twenty-time Hugo Award nominee and was the editor and publisher of ISFiC Press for 8 years.  He has also edited books for DAW, NESFA Press, and ZNB Books.  He began publishing short fiction in 2008, his most recently published story is "Initial Engagement... Read More →
RW
avatar for Donna J W Munro

Donna J W Munro

Donna J. W. Munro teaches high schoolers the slippery truths of government and history at her day job. Her students are her greatest inspiration. She lives with five cats, a cute curly-haired dog, a fur-covered husband, a sassy septuagenarian Mama, and an encyclopedia son. Her daughter... Read More →
avatar for Richard Chwedyk

Richard Chwedyk

Writer, Teacher
Nebula winner; Hugo, Sturgeon and Rhysling award nominee. Adjunct Professor of Instruction at Columbia College Chicago, where I've taught Science Fiction Writing, Fantasy Writing, Science Fiction, and Tolkien, among other courses. I've been involved in convention writing workshops... Read More →
avatar for Lanny Waitsman

Lanny Waitsman

I am a SF/fantasy writer with three books currently in print; two novels and one collection of short stories.I
Saturday November 9, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CST
Camden
  Writer's, Panel

3:00pm CST

Dance a Little Side Step
Saturday November 9, 2024 3:00pm - 4:00pm CST
Camden
Mental and physical exercises that are used to help break the inertia of writer's block
Speakers
avatar for Donna J W Munro

Donna J W Munro

Donna J. W. Munro teaches high schoolers the slippery truths of government and history at her day job. Her students are her greatest inspiration. She lives with five cats, a cute curly-haired dog, a fur-covered husband, a sassy septuagenarian Mama, and an encyclopedia son. Her daughter... Read More →
avatar for Ray Tabler

Ray Tabler

Author, Science Fiction You Can Enjoy
My aim is to write science fiction you can enjoy. So far that's manifested as what I call Light Space Opera. Imagine Starship Troopers, hijacked by Monty Python, or space opera as produced by Gilbert and Sullivan, while bankrolled and bullied by Flo Ziegfeld. Additional links:Ray's... Read More →
avatar for Llewella Forgie

Llewella Forgie

Llewella Forgie is an award-wining author who creates stories of tenacious women battling injustice and creating their own happily-ever-after.  Her current work-in-progress is a pentalogy that takes place in Europe in 1802.  France is planning to invade, people with psychic powers... Read More →
avatar for Dex Greenbright

Dex Greenbright

Dex Greenbright is a writer of monsters both kind and cruel, an award-winning artist, and the editor, illustrator, and a contributing author for Tales of the Automazombs, a book series with steampunk cyborg zombies. He is a creative whirlwind, a magical master of dungeons, and the... Read More →
Saturday November 9, 2024 3:00pm - 4:00pm CST
Camden
  Writer's, Panel

3:00pm CST

Writers & Donuts
Saturday November 9, 2024 3:00pm - 4:00pm CST
Butterfield
Meet and greet for professional writers & aspiring writers
Speakers
avatar for Richard Chwedyk

Richard Chwedyk

Writer, Teacher
Nebula winner; Hugo, Sturgeon and Rhysling award nominee. Adjunct Professor of Instruction at Columbia College Chicago, where I've taught Science Fiction Writing, Fantasy Writing, Science Fiction, and Tolkien, among other courses. I've been involved in convention writing workshops... Read More →
Saturday November 9, 2024 3:00pm - 4:00pm CST
Butterfield
  Writer's

7:00pm CST

How To Write a Self-Published Comic
Saturday November 9, 2024 7:00pm - 8:00pm CST
Ogden
Speakers
avatar for Ryan Francis

Ryan Francis

Ryan Francis is a multi-talented cartoonist and animator who likes to draw animals with swords.After spending time in college learning to draw for money, Ryan tackles the day to day arrangements of projects, commissions, and ventures where he must draw like a mad lad.
Saturday November 9, 2024 7:00pm - 8:00pm CST
Ogden
  Writer's, Panel

8:00pm CST

Self-Publishing: Pros & Cons of
Saturday November 9, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm CST
Camden
Panelists discuss self-publishing
Moderators
avatar for Ryan Francis

Ryan Francis

Ryan Francis is a multi-talented cartoonist and animator who likes to draw animals with swords.After spending time in college learning to draw for money, Ryan tackles the day to day arrangements of projects, commissions, and ventures where he must draw like a mad lad.
Speakers
DR
TA
Saturday November 9, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm CST
Camden
  Writer's, Panel

8:00pm CST

The Rowling Effect
Saturday November 9, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm CST
York
Separating the Story from the Storyteller. Should the personal views and beliefs of the writer affect your enjoyment of the story?
Speakers
avatar for Steven Silver

Steven Silver

Steven H Silver is a twenty-time Hugo Award nominee and was the editor and publisher of ISFiC Press for 8 years.  He has also edited books for DAW, NESFA Press, and ZNB Books.  He began publishing short fiction in 2008, his most recently published story is "Initial Engagement... Read More →
avatar for Malda Marlys

Malda Marlys

Malda Marlys teaches science just outside Chicago and writes the sort of speculative fiction that requires too many qualifiers for the normal flow of conversation. Fortunately the SFFH umbrella is wide (and kind of spooky and full of brass fittings and snakes). Eir short fiction has... Read More →
avatar for Richard Chwedyk

Richard Chwedyk

Writer, Teacher
Nebula winner; Hugo, Sturgeon and Rhysling award nominee. Adjunct Professor of Instruction at Columbia College Chicago, where I've taught Science Fiction Writing, Fantasy Writing, Science Fiction, and Tolkien, among other courses. I've been involved in convention writing workshops... Read More →
avatar for Lisa Moe
GS
avatar for Tiffany Voltz

Tiffany Voltz

Fandom additict. Fanfiction connoisseur. Professional napper. 
KS
Saturday November 9, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm CST
York
  Writer's, Workshop

9:00pm CST

Dangerous Dance
Saturday November 9, 2024 9:00pm - 10:00pm CST
Camden
Writing dynamic scenes or physical combat
Moderators
BF

Bill Fawcett

Special Guest, Bill Fawcett & Associates
Speakers
avatar for Chris Gerrib

Chris Gerrib

Chris Gerrib admits to being a bit obsessed with Mars, but in a healthy way – all three books of his Pirate Series are set on Mars. Chris lives in the Chicago suburbs and still has a day job in IT. He holds degrees in history and business from the University of Illinois and Southern... Read More →
avatar for Alexis Craig
OK
Dangerous Dance docx
Saturday November 9, 2024 9:00pm - 10:00pm CST
Camden
  Writer's, Panel
 
Sunday, November 10
 

9:00am CST

Writer's Workshop 3
Sunday November 10, 2024 9:00am - 12:00pm CST
Butterfield
Entries:
"Mindy and Meg" by Daniel Miller
"The Ultra-Red" by N. John Christensen
Moderators
avatar for Malda Marlys

Malda Marlys

Malda Marlys teaches science just outside Chicago and writes the sort of speculative fiction that requires too many qualifiers for the normal flow of conversation. Fortunately the SFFH umbrella is wide (and kind of spooky and full of brass fittings and snakes). Eir short fiction has... Read More →
Speakers
TA
avatar for R.J. Howell

R.J. Howell

Rob is a reformed medieval academic who draws upon those skills and resources for his stories and settings. He has also been an IT professional, a cook, and a soda jerk. As a child, his parents discovered about the only way to keep him quiet was to give him a book. Without books... Read More →
N
Sunday November 10, 2024 9:00am - 12:00pm CST
Butterfield
  Writer's, Workshop

9:00am CST

Writer's Workshop 4
Sunday November 10, 2024 9:00am - 12:00pm CST
Camden
Entry:
"Aztec Gods" by Dale Cozort
Moderators
OK
Speakers
avatar for Tina Jens

Tina Jens

Tina L. Jens has had 100+ fantasy, mystery, horror, and comedic works published as fiction, poems, non-fiction, a comic book, 1-act plays, and her award-winning novel-in-stories, The Blues Ain't Nothin': Tales of the Lonesome Blues Pub. She served as the editor for Twilight Tales... Read More →
AP
MH
Sunday November 10, 2024 9:00am - 12:00pm CST
Camden
  Writer's, Workshop

10:00am CST

Changing Genres
Sunday November 10, 2024 10:00am - 11:00am CST
Hunt
What makes a person change to - or change from - SF or fantasy to other types of literature?
Moderators
BJ
Speakers
avatar for Donna J W Munro

Donna J W Munro

Donna J. W. Munro teaches high schoolers the slippery truths of government and history at her day job. Her students are her greatest inspiration. She lives with five cats, a cute curly-haired dog, a fur-covered husband, a sassy septuagenarian Mama, and an encyclopedia son. Her daughter... Read More →
DS
avatar for Barbara Gregorich

Barbara Gregorich

I'm the author of nearly 200 books on various topics, prime among them the subject of women in baseball. For my research and writing on the history of women in baseball I was recently honored wit the SABR Dorothy Seymour Mills Lifetime Achievement Award. I've also written mystery... Read More →
Sunday November 10, 2024 10:00am - 11:00am CST
Hunt
  Writer's, Panel

1:00pm CST

Diversity in Character Development
Sunday November 10, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm CST
Camden
Using character development to give them their own unified voice
Moderators
avatar for Alexis Craig
Speakers
TA
avatar for Richard Chwedyk

Richard Chwedyk

Writer, Teacher
Nebula winner; Hugo, Sturgeon and Rhysling award nominee. Adjunct Professor of Instruction at Columbia College Chicago, where I've taught Science Fiction Writing, Fantasy Writing, Science Fiction, and Tolkien, among other courses. I've been involved in convention writing workshops... Read More →
avatar for Barbara Gregorich

Barbara Gregorich

I'm the author of nearly 200 books on various topics, prime among them the subject of women in baseball. For my research and writing on the history of women in baseball I was recently honored wit the SABR Dorothy Seymour Mills Lifetime Achievement Award. I've also written mystery... Read More →
MR
Sunday November 10, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm CST
Camden
  Writer's, Panel

2:00pm CST

Tickle Your Funny Bone?
Sunday November 10, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CST
Camden
How to write humor. What's funny and what's not?
Speakers
avatar for Malda Marlys

Malda Marlys

Malda Marlys teaches science just outside Chicago and writes the sort of speculative fiction that requires too many qualifiers for the normal flow of conversation. Fortunately the SFFH umbrella is wide (and kind of spooky and full of brass fittings and snakes). Eir short fiction has... Read More →
avatar for Llewella Forgie

Llewella Forgie

Llewella Forgie is an award-wining author who creates stories of tenacious women battling injustice and creating their own happily-ever-after.  Her current work-in-progress is a pentalogy that takes place in Europe in 1802.  France is planning to invade, people with psychic powers... Read More →
avatar for David Hankins

David Hankins

Author, Lost Bard Enterprises
I am the award-winning author of Death and the Taxman about the Grim Reaper trapped in an IRS agent's dying body. He must regain his powers before he dies and faces judgment for his original sin. (Join me Sat at 10:00 for a reading of the first chapters!).My short stories have appeared... Read More →
IT
Sunday November 10, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CST
Camden
  Writer's, Panel
 
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