With all the changes we’ve seen in the world lately, it sometimes feels like the future is now. But what is really in store for fiction that shows us alternate worlds? Our panel will help us explore what’s new, what’s back, and what’s next.
Speakers: M.K. England, Stephanie Toliver, Nghi Vo
Moderator: John Glover
Date: Wednesday, July 28, 2021
Time: 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm Eastern Time
Location: Online, in the comfort of your own home. Via the Zoom Platform
Price: $12 Members | $15 Non-members | $5 Students
Registration closes on July 27; your unique link to join the online Zoom program will be emailed to you the the morning of the Writing Show.
All participants must register online to ensure you receive the link to the Zoom platform. This includes all-inclusive members, Writing Show members, and individual members wishing to use one of their free passes.
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SPEAKERS
M.K. England
M.K. England grew up on the Space Coast of Florida watching shuttle launches from the backyard. These days, they call rural Virginia home, where their house is full of video games, dogs, plants, Star Wars memorabilia, and one baby human. MK is the author of The Disasters (2018), Spellhacker (2020), The One True Me and You (2022), and other forthcoming novels.
Website: mkengland.com Facebook: @mkenglandbooks Twitter: @mk_england Instagram: @mk_england
Stephanie Toliver
S.R. Toliver is an assistant professor of literacy and secondary humanities at the University of Colorado Boulder. Informed by her love of science fiction and fantasy texts, as well as her experience as a 9th and 10th grade English teacher, Toliver’s scholarship centers the freedom dreams of Black youth and honors the historical legacy that Black imaginations have had and will have on activism and social change.
Website: readingblackfutures.com Twitter: @SR_Toliver
Nghi Vo
Nghi Vo was born in central Illinois, and she retains a healthy respect of and love for corn mazes, scarecrows, and fifty-year floods. These days, she lives on the shores of Lake Michigan, which is less a lake than an inland sea that she is sure is just biding its time. She is the author of The Chosen and the Beautiful and The Singing Hills Cycle, including The Empress of Salt and Fortune and When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain.
Website: nghivo.com Twitter: @NghiVoWriting Instagram: @nghivowriting
MODERATOR
J.T. Glover
J.T. Glover has short fiction in Best New Horror, Pseudopod, and Nightscript, among other venues. He\’s published nonfiction in Postscripts to Darkness, The Silent Garden, and Thinking Horror. A librarian by day, he lives in Central Virginia, is working on a novel, and you can find him online at www.jtglover.com.
Website: jtglover.com Twitter: @smythsewn