Name: Live Action Slush - Science Fiction
Start: 2024-08-18T13:00:00-0600
End: 2024-08-18T13:50:00-0600

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!

Sunday August 18, 2024 1:00pm - 1:50pm MDT

Fairview

Bring the first page of your science 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

Kevin Weir

I began my work in film before becoming an author of page, stage, and screen. A fan of fantastical worlds, I found a way to channel my chaotic energies into wild yarns, taking readers on unforgettable journeys. My debut novel, Endless Hunger, was praised as a "riveting, genre-blending... Read More →

Speakers

Ella Beaumont

Assistant to the Publisher, EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing

Ella Beaumont has been professionally involved in the publishing industry in both traditional and freelancing capacities since 2012. She has experience in editing, book packaging, and sales and marketing roles. She previously served as the acquisition editor for EDGE Science Fiction... Read More →

R. Graeme Cameron

R. Graeme Cameron lives in Nanaimo, British Columbia. In 2016 he began publishing and editing the online speculative fiction magazine Polar Borealis. In 2021 he added Polar Starlight, devoted to speculative poetry, edited by Rhea E. Rose. He has written reviews of Canadian Speculative... Read More →

Susan Forest

Editor, Laksa Media Groups

Susan Forest is the author of dual Aurora Award-winners Bursts of Fire (2019) and Flights of Marigold (2020) as well as over 25 internationally-published short stories (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Asimov's Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Orson Scot Card's Intergalactic... Read More →

Michael Martineck

Robert J. Sawyer

Robert J. Sawyer — called “the dean of Canadian science fiction” by both the CBC and The Ottawa Citizen — is the only Canadian to have won all three of the world’s top awards for best science-fiction novel of the year: the Hugo, the Nebula, and the John W. Campbell Memorial... Read More →

Sunday August 18, 2024 1:00pm - 1:50pm MDT
Fairview

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When Words Collide 2024