Name: Keynote Event
Start: 2024-08-16T19:00:00-0600
End: 2024-08-16T21:00:00-0600

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Friday August 16, 2024 7:00pm - 9:00pm MDT

Bonavista Ballroom

The Guests of Honour of the WWC 2024 festival will sit panel style to give a keynote address. Hosted by Randy McCharles.

Moderators

Randy McCharles

RANDY MCCHARLES is a full-time author of crime and speculative fiction. He is the recipient of several Aurora Awards (Canada's most prestigious award for speculative fiction), and in 2013 his short story Ghost-B-Gone Incorporated won the House of Anansi 7-day Ghost Story Contest... Read More →

Speakers

Wayne Arthurson

Wayne Arthurson is a writer and literary agent of Cree and French-Canadian descent, the author of eight novels, five books of non-fiction and countless articles. His novels have won an Alberta Readers’ Choice Award, an Arthur Ellis Award for Crime Writing and Best Trade Fiction... Read More →

Jack Castle

Jack Castle has been labeled by the Coeur D’Alene Press as the “Man of Adventures!” He grew up in Florida and while working as a young stuntman for Orlando Theme Parks, he was hand selected by George Lucas to play a Han Solo look-a-like for Disney's Hollywood Studios. It was... Read More →

Jessica Johns

Jessica Johns is a nehiyaw aunty with English-Irish ancestry and a member of Sucker Creek First Nation. Her debut novel, Bad Cree, was shortlisted for the Amazon first novel award and won the MacEwan Book of the Year prize.

Tash McAdam

Tash McAdam is a Welsh-Canadian author, activist and educator. Their publications include The Psionics (Nine Star Press), and the Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selections Blood Sport and Sink or Swim (Orca Books). They are also featured in multiple anthologies. Tash is a recipient... Read More →

Premee Mohamed

Premee Mohamed is a Nebula, World Fantasy, and Aurora award-winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. She has also been a finalist for the Hugo, Ignyte, British Fantasy, and Crawford awards. She is an Assistant Editor at the short... Read More →

P.J. Vernon

Lambda Literary and Queerities awards nominee, P. J. Vernon writes, lives and loves on Moh'kinstsis (Mo-ghin-s-tis), which describes the gathering place where the Bow and Elbow rivers meet and the ancestral homelands of the Siksika (Six-ih-gah) Nation, Piikani Nation (Be-gun-ee... Read More →

Friday August 16, 2024 7:00pm - 9:00pm MDT
Bonavista Ballroom

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