Speakers: Kitty Cat Creations Your chance to create art with our Artist Guests of Honour

Speaker: Kelley Armstrong Kelley Armstrong reviews the choosen submissions of our convention members.

Speaker: Laurie E. Smith Come listen to the first three chapters of Laurie’s first original fiction novel — a tale of love, war, lust, secrets, and betrayal amongst intelligent feathered theropod dinosaurs in the Late Cretaceous Era. (There will also be…

Speakers: Laurie E. Smith, Linda Ross-Mansfield, Patricia Wrede, & Amanda Bonner A historical discussion about the sociological nature of fandom from the 1940s to the modern era.

Speakers: Kelley Armstrong, Melinda Friesen, & Sherry Peters Why does speculative genre fiction speak so well to young adults? Are there common themes involved? Are the characters role models to the readers? Are young adult readers choosing to continue to read…

Speakers: Thom Allison and Tamsen McDonough Thom and Tamsen take questions from our convention members.

Speakers: Laurie E. Smith & LeAmber Kensley We’ll start by talking about “Watership Down” and its impact on young readers, followed (time permitting) by discussion of other YA titles and how parents can make use of them to discuss adult concepts.

Featuring Kitty Cat Creations The cultures of different platforms to post art online – This is for people who want to promote online and what to be aware of. From different on demand printers, to TOS issues.

Speakers: Laurie E. Smith, Levi Labelle, & Shandi Strong Who ARE we, as queer individuals within fandom as a group? As how do we see queerness represented in the TV shows, movies, books, and comics we enjoy as fans? Let’s talk…

Speakers: Kelley Armstrong, Craig Russell, & Daria Patrie A panel of authors in a discussion of the strange and humorous coincidences they’ve experienced in their lives as authors, as well as interesting and humorous observations and interactions that have made their…