Readercon
I'm going to be there, and it's going to be awesome. Mafia! Cookies! Playlists! My panels:
Friday 3:00 PM, ME/ CT: Discussion (60 min.)
Writers' Groups and Writers: A Match Made in Heaven or Hell? Alaya Dawn Johnson and Matthew Kressel (co-L) with Richard Chwedyk, F. Brett Cox, Michael J. Daley, Scott Edelman, Andrea Hairston, Kay Kenyon, Barbara Krasnoff, Resa Nelson, Jennifer Pelland,Luc Reid, Paul Tremblay, _et al_
*Leader (Participant / Moderator) *
Writers groups: some writers swear by them, others swear at them. Many writers consider critiques from their writers' group an invaluable part of the submission process. Others believe that writers' groups tend to dilute individual style, tending toward "groupthink." Our leaders are members of Altered Fluid, a Manhattan-based writer's group that has met regularly since 2001.
Friday 8:00 PM, Salon G: Panel
Under the Rainbow: Multiculturalism in Young Adult Fiction. Victoria Janssen (L), Alaya Dawn Johnson, Anil Menon, Vandana Singh, Jean-Louis Trudel
"I'm old enough to still be excited by the 'newness' of multicultural art, but I know my students have grown up thinking of monoculturalism as the exception rather than the rule."--Kris McDermott on the Interstitial Arts message board. How aware are YA authors of their readers' expectations for multiculturalism? How do you meet this expectation if your own background is less than worldly? How do you create a reasonably and realistically multicultural set of characters without resorting to tokenism? How do multicultural tales differ depending on whether the multiculturalism is incidental or integral to the plot, and what does each kind of story tell its readers about the nature of culture?
But you want to know what I wish we had and is unfortunately not addressed on this program? The state of women and minorities in short fiction publications. Because my God some of the shit that's happened lately makes me want to scream.
Friday 3:00 PM, ME/ CT: Discussion (60 min.)
Writers' Groups and Writers: A Match Made in Heaven or Hell? Alaya Dawn Johnson and Matthew Kressel (co-L) with Richard Chwedyk, F. Brett Cox, Michael J. Daley, Scott Edelman, Andrea Hairston, Kay Kenyon, Barbara Krasnoff, Resa Nelson, Jennifer Pelland,Luc Reid, Paul Tremblay, _et al_
*Leader (Participant / Moderator) *
Writers groups: some writers swear by them, others swear at them. Many writers consider critiques from their writers' group an invaluable part of the submission process. Others believe that writers' groups tend to dilute individual style, tending toward "groupthink." Our leaders are members of Altered Fluid, a Manhattan-based writer's group that has met regularly since 2001.
Friday 8:00 PM, Salon G: Panel
Under the Rainbow: Multiculturalism in Young Adult Fiction. Victoria Janssen (L), Alaya Dawn Johnson, Anil Menon, Vandana Singh, Jean-Louis Trudel
"I'm old enough to still be excited by the 'newness' of multicultural art, but I know my students have grown up thinking of monoculturalism as the exception rather than the rule."--Kris McDermott on the Interstitial Arts message board. How aware are YA authors of their readers' expectations for multiculturalism? How do you meet this expectation if your own background is less than worldly? How do you create a reasonably and realistically multicultural set of characters without resorting to tokenism? How do multicultural tales differ depending on whether the multiculturalism is incidental or integral to the plot, and what does each kind of story tell its readers about the nature of culture?
But you want to know what I wish we had and is unfortunately not addressed on this program? The state of women and minorities in short fiction publications. Because my God some of the shit that's happened lately makes me want to scream.