It's better than a keynote, it's a THREENOTE! Hear encouraging words from three of our special guests. This is the second in a hat trick of heavy hitting Sunday morning special events! Definitely worth getting up early for.
KEYNOTES:Danny RamadanHow to Build Boundaries with Your ReaderIn this candid keynote, Danny Ramadan explores the strange intimacy between writers and readers, and the boundaries that keep that relationship healthy. Drawing on his experience as a novelist, children’s author, and memoirist, he looks at the modern author’s expanded job: writing books, promoting them, performing vulnerability, surviving Q&As, and answering questions that sometimes wander far beyond the page. Ramadan asks how writers can remain open to readers without becoming endlessly available to them. A love letter to readers and a survival guide for writers, this talk invites us to make literary community gentler and more mutual.
Amanda LeducThe More-than-Human World: Speculative Fiction, the Animal Self, and Imagining the Possible
Craig Dilouie Democratization: The Double Edged SwordIn this keynote, professional fiction writer Craig DiLouie reviews how publishing has changed in the past 25 years, focusing on democratization—how technology produced a renaissance in small press and self-publishing but is now threatening to replace humans altogether even as it offers new augmentation tools.
