Name: Live Action Slush - Early Bird Edition (Short Fiction)
Start: 2024-08-16T13:00:00-0600
End: 2024-08-16T13:50:00-0600

Welcome to When Words Collide 2024!

This site is designed to streamline your event experience, ensuring you never miss a moment. Here, you’ll find a detailed timeline of all event activities, including sessions, workshops, and more. You can view the entire schedule, filter by various options (rooms, days, presenters), and explore presenter bios.

The schedule is subject to updates, so remember to check back often!

Friday August 16, 2024 1:00pm - 1:50pm MDT

Fairview

Bring the first page of your Short Fiction manuscript to be anonymously read aloud and receive feedback from our panel of editors. (Please indicate the genre at the top of the page.)

Moderators

Andrew Snook

Andrew Snook is a professional writer and editor. His non-fiction and fiction writing have earned him a combined 21 national and international writing awards. Snook is also the founder of Canadian Independent Publishers, which is dedicated to showcasing indie writers, bookstores and... Read More →

Speakers

Jim Jackson

Author, speaker and gentleman Jim Jackson is a Calgary Herald bestselling author, vintage leather jacket enthusiast and dabbler in the dark arts of blues music. Jim’s mission is to show how the stories we all grew up with – the heroes, the monsters, the adventures – are still... Read More →

Michèle Laframboise

Michèle Laframboise feeds coffee grounds to her garden plants, runs long distances and creates compelling fiction from her secret basement in Mississauga, Ontario. Fascinated by sciences and nature since she could walk, she studied in geography and engineering, but two recessions... Read More →

Adria Laycraft

Freelance editor, published author, and wood artisan, Adria Laycraft earned honours in Journalism Arts in '92 and has worked with words and visual art ever since. She co-edited the Urban Green Man anthology in 2013, which was nominated for an Aurora Award, and has two novels, Jumpship... Read More →

Shirlee Smith Matheson

Research, writing, and reading tours take Shirlee Smith Matheson to schools, libraries and museums throughout Canada, and into the homes, offices and aviation hangars of characters featured in her 21 published books, numerous published articles and short stories. Nonfiction books... Read More →

Rhonda Parrish

Rhonda is the editor of many anthologies including, most recently, Earth: Giants, Golems and Gargoyles, Grimm, Grit and Gasoline: An anthology of Dieselpunk and Decopunk Fairy Tales and F is for Fairy. In addition, Rhonda is a writer whose work has been in publications such as Tesseracts... Read More →

Friday August 16, 2024 1:00pm - 1:50pm MDT
Fairview

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