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Editing

Call Extended: Fantasy and Gaming

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As you may know, Charly Harbord and I are currently co-editing a special issue of the British Fantasy Society’s BFS Journal. We have decided to extend the deadline for submissions to 29th October for writers from the following: POC, LGBTQIA+- communities, disabled and chronic illness communities, neurodiverse writers, writers with specific learning difficulties, displaced people and those from non-anglophone countries (please note submissions must be in English), and otherwise disadvantaged writers. For more details, read on…

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Academic Fiction Interviews

Science Fiction Film & Television Interview

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If you’d like some insights into my work-in-progress, now’s your chance. This month’s Science Fiction Film & Television journal is a special issue on Science Fiction and Gaming. Editors Darshana Jayemanne and Cameron Kunzelman were kind enough to interview me on ‘Retellings and Reversions’, where we discuss representing gaming in novels and the issues around remakes such as Final Fantasy VII: Remake (on that note, this interview and this blog do contain spoilers).

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Conventions Events Flights of Foundry

*Updated* Flights of Foundry

What a naughty scatterbrain I am! In between dealing with some health issues over the last few weeks, I completely forgot to let you know where you could find me at Flights of Foundry. My first ever US convention, too!

For some reason, I’m down under three separate profiles, so who knows what’s happened there. However, here are the two items you can find me on – and with line-ups like these, you’d really be doing yourself a favour by tuning in.

Queering Games, Saturday 17:00 UTC
https://sched.co/iENx
Dave Ring [M], Orion D Black, Dominique Dickey Sharang Biswas, Bendi Barrett (thank you to Bendi and Sharang for joining us last minute!) and me talk about queerness and queering video games and TTRPGs.

Branching Into Multiple Media, Sunday 19:00 UTC
https://sched.co/iEIu
Brandon O’Brien, Claire Rousseau, RJ Theodore [M], Michael Underwood and me explore ways to be creative across multiple media and forms.

Hope to see you at one or both!

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Edit [6th December 2021]: You can now watch the ‘Branching Into Multiple Media’ panel on the Dream Foundry YouTube page – or the link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usE5HqAgX9w

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Academic Events Festivals

Tinderbox PlayAway Games Festival: Game Studies in the Wild

A green and pink wash is interrupted by a stripe of white across the middle. On the right of this white space is the square logo for the festival, overlaid with the words PlayAway Games Festival 2021. On the left, the text reads: Games Research with University of Glasgow Games & Gaming Lab. Panel 1. Chaired by Dr Matthew Barr with Lauren Watson, Francis Butterworth-Parr, Williams Kavanagh, Kirsty Dunlip & Monica Vasquez. Panel 2. Chaired by Ruth EJ Booth with Gabriel Elvery, Charly HArbord & Arthur Ehlinger. Panel 3. With William Kavanagh, Dr David Farrell & Dr Romana Ramzan. Thursday 25th Feb 11:30 - 15:15 (GMT).

Happy New Year, folx! While I’ve been busy with a range of projects behind the scenes, here’s some news I can finally reveal. Specifically, we’re talking about the Tinderbox PlayAway Games Festival — and where you can find me on 25th February.

You already may be familiar with the Tinderbox Collective and their work in opening up the creative arts to young people. This time they’re hosting a two week online festival over 22nd February to explore different aspects of Gaming, from music and education to design and technology. On Thursday 25th February, the University of Glasgow’s Games and Gaming Lab is hosting a special day on Games Research, not just showcasing the kind of research you can do in Gaming, but where that research can take you. That’s where I come in.

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Worldcon: Loncon 3 schedule

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There’s just over a week to go until Worldcon hits the UK – Loncon 3 will be at London’s ExCeL arena over 14th – 18th August. More than 5,000 people will be descending on London for the first UK Worldcon since 1965. So I’m ridiculously excited to announce I’ll be joining a couple of panels in the music stream over the weekend.

Here’s what my Loncon schedule looks like so far:

FRIDAY 15th AUG – “Massively Multiplayer” The Music of Genre Video-games
Capital Suite 5 (ExCeL), 4:30pm – 6pm
w/ Melinda Snodgrass, Jeremy Zerfoss, Isabella van Elferen and Helena Nash.
“Now a larger industry than films worldwide, with the biggest titles inspired by SF&F themes, video games are driving a lot of successful music composition, both classical and modern. Panellists discuss the landscape so far and look to future trends.”

MONDAY 18TH AUG – Worldbuilding to Music
Capital Suite 9 (ExCeL), 11am – 12pm
w/ Bill Sutton, Nicolle Lamerichs and, once again, the amazing Melinda Snodgrass.
“Panellists explore how music inspires imagination and worldbuilding, with examples from current professional and fan works and from classics such as the works of Marianne L’Engle, H. Beam Piper, C.S. Lewis, Tolkien and others.”

The full schedule for the con can be found at this link on Loncon 3 website.

If you can’t make those, I should be floating around the con all weekend – so come say hi. Hope to see you there!