Join 2025 Worldcon Poet Laureate Brandon O'Brien as you learn what speculative poetry is, what it can do differently than other forms of verse, and even how you can write your own!
Vampires, shifters, and ghosts, oh my. Come to this panel to learn how to write compelling urban fantasy that keeps the readers' suspension of disbelief going.
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Featuring: Brady McReynolds, J.B. Garner, Katherine Monasterio, Richard Lee Byers
Want to write inclusive fiction with diverse characters but worry you'll get it wrong? Join panelists as they discuss how they write outside their own identities and life experiences.
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Featuring: David A. Rodriguez, J.B. Garner, Khaldoun Khelil, Monica Valentinelli, Rob Cameron
Writing, Running, & Publishing Table Top RPGs For Classrooms
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Create, write, pitch to publish, and/or run role playing games for classrooms. Incorporate academic pedagogy and role playing in dynamic, student-focused, interactive and collaborative modules.
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With the proven effectiveness of classroom rpgs, challenge for game developers and educators in writing and creating for classrooms is to understand the most effective way to bring their understanding of games into pedagogy for different classrooms. Join two experienced university instructors with a combined 20 years experience teaching a variety of subjects at the university level from pre-medical coursework to bioethics to philosophy, as well as experience in academic publishing, as they introduce educators and game developers and publishers to creating and marketing academic pedagogical RPGs. Practical examples and frameworks for lessons structures will be provided. Practical ideas for pitching academic rpgs to academic decision makers, academic publishers, and students will be covered, as well as what rpg content and game design are effective in engaging students.
Old Blue is a deckhand known as bad luck. On your ship, he works hard, sweating in the sun. But on his back is a treasure map of scars. Could this be the sign that lead other crews to their doom?
Old Blue is a deckhand known as bad luck. On your ship, he works hard, sweating in the sun. But on his back is a treasure map of scars. Could this be the sign that lead other crews to their doom?
Old Blue is a deckhand known as bad luck. On your ship, he works hard, sweating in the sun. But on his back is a treasure map of scars. Could this be the sign that lead other crews to their doom?