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Musical Guests of Honour
The PDX Broadsides, a Portland OR pop-folk trio, have been playing music together since 2011, and have become known for their harmonies and clever writing. The Broadsides love things, and as a result many of their songs are about the things they love. Turns out those things are basically nerdy. Their first Kickstarter, for their 4th CD “Trust Issues”, funded in 16 hours and finished at 278% of their goal.
The PDX Broadsides have played around the country in venues large and small. They’ve performed at conventions including Dragon Con, OryCon (as musical guest of honor), Rose City Comic Con, and GameStorm, or you may have seen them play in shows with The Doubleclicks, Marian Call, or Molly Lewis. They have received two nominations for the Pegasus Awards for Excellence in Filk.
Dr. Jessica Hebert is a postdoctoral reproductive researcher at OHSU and an internationally-presenting science communicator. Hollyanna McCollom is the author of the Moon Guide to Portland and builds costumes for cosplay and burlesque. Christian Lipski was Portland’s foremost comics journalist and served as a judge for the comics industry’s Eisner Awards.
According to Pandora, if you like the PDX Broadsides because of their “comedic sensibility, folk roots, acoustic sonority, and paired vocal harmony”, you probably also like Jonathan Coulton, Ingrid Michaelson, Magnetic Zeroes, Karen Kilgariff, The Finches, Paul and Storm, and Barenaked Ladies. Who’s going to argue with that?
Author Guest of Honour
Chadwick Ginther
We would like to welcome @chadwickginther as our local author guest of honour! Chadwick Ginther is the Prix Aurora Award nominated author of Graveyard Mind and the Thunder Road Trilogy. His short fiction has appeared in many magazines and anthologies. He lives and writes in Winnipeg, Canada, spinning sagas set in the wild spaces of Canada’s western wilderness where surely monsters must exist.
Editor Guest of Honour
Susan Forest is an award-winning fiction editor for Laksa Media. All of the Laksa anthologies to date have won or been finalists for Canada's top speculative fiction award for Related Works: the Prix Aurora Award. In addition to short fiction, Susan edits novels (two of which have also been Aurora finalists) and memoirs.
As a writer, her novel, Bursts of Fire won the 2020 Aurora for Best YA Novel. Flights of Marigolds, second in her Addicted to Heaven series came out in 2020. She has published over 25 short stories in Canadian and international publications, including Asimov's, Analog, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and she was an Aurora Award finalist four times for her short fiction.
Susan was SFWA's Secretary for four years, and has appeared at many international writing conventions She loves travel and has been known to dictate novels from the back of her husband's motorcycle.
D.J. Guests of Honour
Nicky and Justin Price
Nicky and Justin broadcast a special Keycon Disco over the Atlantic for us last year. We are delighted to have them back again this year for another virtual disco (and, hopefully, a live one next year!)
Tune in on Saturday!
Nicky, who has won awards for her mental health work with Rainbow After the Storm, has also volunteered to do some mental wellness panels.
Artist Guest of Honour
Heather Bruton
We are proud to announce our Artist Guest Of Honour, Heather Bruton. She is the creator of the lovely focus piece on our poster!
Heather Bruton was born in Halifax and Nova Scotia in the 60's and almost instantly found a love of art. Her love of Science Fiction was sparked by her grandmother gifting her with an Edgar Rice Burroughs novel when she ran out of her grandfather's westerns.
Before that her art was mostly horses, dinosaurs and wildlife. Fandom was found the early 70s and there was no stopping. That early love of horses, wildlife and mythology still inspires her work today.
Moving to Toronto is the 80s she finally settled in Kitchener where she lives today with her two roommates and a demanding calico cat. She went full time with her art in the 90s and has never looked back.
She has produced work for book covers, magazines, gaming manuals, collectible card games, board game design, t shirts, enamel pins, bookmarks, stickers and countless original paintings.
Her love of the natural world, birding, world history and anthropology inspires her work. When not painting she loves birding, international travel, reading and genre tv.
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Keycon 39 (2022)
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As this year’s official charity, Keycon 38 is proud to support Cancer Care Manitoba.
If anyone would like to donate prizes for auctions to this charity, please contact programming38@keycon.org
