Recently some of our staff attended Readercon 22, just outside of Boston, MA. Publisher Carrie Cuinn and editor Don Pizarro wrote up some thoughts on the event on their own websites, which you can find below:
From Carrie:
Readercon, The Loot Edition (or, what happens in the dealers room has to find space in your luggage)
Readercon 2011 Recap: Thursday / Friday
Readercon 2011 Recap: Saturday / Sunday (and we’re done)
and So You Want to Write an Author Blurb? Readercon Edition, With Advice from Ken Liu and Don Pizarro
From Don we have deeper thoughts about individual panels:
ReaderCon Shout-Outs, an intro of sorts
“He held the Beast of the Apocalypse by its tail, the stupid kid!”, a look at Mike Allen’s ”Speculative Poetry Workshop.
“Sooner or later, it comes down to you and the paper.” a write-up on the “What Writing Workshops Do and Don’t Offer” panel
Know Your Limit, the ”Writing Within Constraints” panel
Foreign Deviltry, about the ”Complicating Colonial Encounters” panel
Feeling Very Fuzzy, the “Surrealism and Strong Emotion” and “Feeling Very Post-Slipstream” panels
“I am dressed as the woman of the opposite sex”, about the ”Daughters of the Female Man” panel
and A Day Late and A Dollar Short, a wrap-up, or something like it.
Overall, it was a wonderful convention, and one we’re planning to have a bigger presence at next year.
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