Schedules: Origins, Convergence, Confluence, and GenCon

Some of this is still fairly loosey-goosey, and I will add more information as I know it!

Origins Game Fair, June 18th-22ndThursday

12:00 PM
The Intersection of Games and Novels
GCCC – 2nd Floor – Meeting Room A 212 – Authors Track
Kelli Fitzpatrick, C.S.E. Cooney, Jeri Shepherd

Friday

11:00 AM
Networking as a Writer
GCCC – 2nd Floor – Meeting Room A 212 – Authors Track
Jenifer Purcell Rosenberg, Addie J. King, Jeri Shepherd, C.S.E. Cooney

4:00 PM
Fantasy+Romance=Romantasy
GCCC – 2nd Floor – Meeting Room A 212 – Authors Track
Sarah Hans, C.S.E. Cooney, Tracy Ross, James Daniel Ross

Saturday

12:00 PM
Superpowered Characters
GCCC – 2nd Floor – Meeting Room A 212 – Authors Track
Kelli Fitzpatrick, Mary Fan, C.S.E. Cooney

2:00 PM
Effective Worldbuilding
GCCC – 2nd Floor – Meeting Room A 212 – Authors Track
Daniel Myers, Cat Rambo, C.S.E. Cooney, Jeri Shepherd

CONvergence: July 3-6
(I’m one of their GUESTS OF HONOR!)Thursday

Infernal Salon, 14:00 (2 PM)

Opening Ceremony 19:00 (7 PM)

Writers Meetup 20:00 (8 PM)

Live D&D RPG! 22:00 (10 PM)

Friday

Concert: The Devil and Lady Midnight: Selected Readings and Music 11:00 AM

Panel: Crafting Characters Readers Care About: 12:30 PM

Panel: What the Filk? SFF Theatre and Music 15:30 (3:30 PM)

Meet and Greet: C. S E. Cooney 17:00 (5 PM)

Game: Negocios Infernales 19:00 (7 PM)

Saturday

Panel: World Building and Mythmaking: 11 AM

Reading: C. S. E. Cooney: 12:30 PM

Filk and SFF Musical Theater Concert: C. S. E. Cooney 15:30 (3:30 PM)

Panel: Swiss Army Writer: The Art of Multidisciplanary Writing 17:00 (5 PM)

Sunday

Closing Ceremony 17:00 (5 PM)

Confluence: July 25th, 26th, 27thSaturday

Saturday Noon: Infernal Salon [Equinox]

An Infernal Salon is a fun, low-stakes writing workshop. Participants are given spooky card prompts, and then we set a timer for 25 minutes. Everyone writes something (or draws! Or composes!). Then everyone who’s comfortable with it shares their infernally-inspired works!

Saturday 2-2:50 PM, Brimstone Rhine Concert

With Carlos Hernandez and Jeremy Cooney

Saturday 5 pm: Writing SF and Fantasy Poetry [Commonwealth East]

Mary Soon Lee, Herb Kauderer, Mary Turzillo, C.S.E. Cooney

GenCon: July 31st-August 3rdThursday

Remembering Howard Andrew Jones, Thursday, 11 AM

Book Signing and Meet & Greet, 2 PM
C. S. E. Cooney, Richard Dansky, and Shveta Thakrar

For the Loving of the (Writing) Game, Thursday 5 PM

Friday

Coffee Klatch, 11 AM
With C. S. E. Cooney and Johannah Simon

Infernal Salon Writers Workshop, 1 PM

Saturday

Reading Aloud for the Writer or Poet, 1 PM

The Joys of Speculative Poetry, 3 PM