So if you’re in the Ottawa writerly circles you surely know about Can-Con. If not, boy are you missing out. Can-Con is “the conference on canadian content in speculative arts and literature”. In layman’s terms, a weekend of awesomeness for writers and other creatives. You totally wanna go. I’m going.
And these are the workshops I want to attend:
Friday
- Alas, none, as I will be at Music on a Mission, a fundraising event for Family Services Ottawa!
Saturday
- Our Monsters are our Children
- The Fast-Changing Economics of e-book Publishing
- National Novel Writing Month – Strategies and Emergency Inspiration
- The History of Science Fiction
- Serialization Past and Present
- The Frontiers of Young Adult Fiction
- Magic and Magical Systems
- Blood Splatter Pattern Analysis
- Advice to Aspiring Writers on the Craft
- Getting Noticed (in a good way) in the Novel and Short Story Slush Piles
- Writers Read Their Juvenilia
Sunday
- How to Get Traditionally Published
- Police Procedure: Busting Myths and Preconceptions
- How to Build a Productive and Sustainable Critiquing Group
- Reviewers and Reviewing
- FanFiction Reading – The Guilty Pleasure
I’m very, very excited!