I will be at Can*Con 2023! Here’s where to find me.

For the first time since 2019, I will be attending—in person—the Conference on Canadian Content in Speculative Arts & Literature, known as Can*Con! It’s at the Sheraton Hotel, located at 150 Albert Street, from Friday October 13 to Sunday October 15. And there are different ways you can meet me there!

I’m moderating a panel!

On Saturday, October 14, from 1-1:50pm (for those who pay to attend the con), I will be moderating a panel called Disability in Sci-Fi and Fantasy: Worldbuilding for Disabled Heroes. I’m really excited about this because the panelists are Melissa Blair, Ada Hoffman, and A.D. (Anna) Sui! They are brilliant writers, and I can’t wait to find out what they’ll share with us on this topic!

I’m doing an author signing!

There will be a vendor room at the Sheraton that is free to the public. You can buy my books (Season One: Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space! and Nothing Without Us Too) and other awesome books at the Renaissance vendor table, then visit me at the authors’ signing table in the same room to get a signature! My signing session is Saturday, October 14, from 3-3:30pm! I’ll sign books of mine that you’ve bought before, too! Come and say hi!

I’ll be celebrating Renaissance’s 10th Anniversary in the Con Suite!

Again on Saturday, October 14, from 1-4pm (for those who pay to attend the con), there will be much celebrating of my publisher’s tenth anniversary! Whoo! Because I am doing a panel from 1-1:50pm and a signing from 3-3:30pm, I will have to pop in around those time slots. But please go and meet other awesome Renaissance authors too!

Extroverting in the halls and vendor room

I love hanging in the vendor room, but you also might catch me in the hallway with my trust rollator, Noola! Say hi! I’m friendly!

Check out the full schedule!

You can visit the Can-Con website to learn more about this conference, like:

The lists of guestsExhibitorsPitches and Kaffeeklatches (informal gathering for a chat)Schedule (in-person and virtual)

Cait Gordon is an autistic, disabled, and queer Canadian writer of speculative fiction that celebrates diversity. She is the author of Season One: Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space (2023). Cait also founded the Spoonie Authors Network and joined Talia C. Johnson to co-edit the multi-genre, disability fiction anthologies Nothing Without Us (a 2020 Prix Aurora Award finalist) and Nothing Without Us Too (a 2023 Prix Aurora Award winner).