Can*Con 2019: The Conference on Canadian Content in Speculative Arts

Award-winning science fiction and fantasy author/editor Julie E. Czerneda was inducted into the CSFFA Hall of Fame in 2022. Published by DAW Books, NY,her latest release is standalone science fiction novel To Each This World and Imaginings, her 25th anniversary collection. Julie is... Read More →

Susan Forest writes SF, fantasy and horror, and is an award-winning fiction editor for Laksa Media. Her novel, Bursts of Fire, came out in 2019, to be followed by Flights of Marigolds. She has published over 25 short stories, contributes to When Words Collide, and has appeared at... Read More →

Kate Heartfield's recent novels include The Embroidered Book, a 2022 bestseller in the UK and Canada, The Valkyrie, a retelling of Norse and Germanic legends, and two tie-in novels in the Assassin's Creed universe. Her 2018 debut novel (republished in 2023 as The Chatelaine) won Canada’s... Read More →

Kelly Robson is an award-winning short fiction writer. In 2018, her story “A Human Stain” won the Nebula Award for Best Novelette, and in 2016, her novella “Waters of Versailles” won the Prix Aurora Award. She has also been a finalist for the Nebula, World Fantasy, Theodore... Read More →

Liz Westbrook-Trenholm has published or aired mainstream and speculative short fiction in Prix Aurora-winning or nominated anthologies, The Sum of Us, (Laksa Media), 49th Parallels (Bundoran Press) and Shades Within Us (Laksa Media) and, most recently, in Over the Rainbow (Exile Press... Read More →