Glasgow Science Festival, Satellite 6, GIFCon Highlights – and Exciting News…

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GIFCon is nearly over and done with for another year, so time for a wee update on upcoming things:

Firstly, Oliver Langmead and I will be giving a version of our workshop, ‘Discover New Worlds Through Creative Writing’ on 13th June at the Glasgow Science Festival. If you missed our Edinburgh International Science Festival and GIFCon events, this will be your last chance to catch our workshops for a wee while. So, get yourself registered for free tickets at the link below, and we’ll see you there! We kick off at 5:30pm on 13th June at 5 University Gardens, University of Glasgow.

https://www.gla.ac.uk/events/sciencefestival/glasgowsciencefestival2018/adult/headline_325536_en.html

Before that, I’ll be appearing at the Satellite 6 convention in Glasgow at the end of May. Until the programme is officially announced (and I’ll post more then), here’s where you can register for this year’s event.

https://six.satellitex.org.uk/

As for 2019, I’ve been invited onto the Programming Committee for next year’s Eastercon, Ytterbium. With the delightful Frances Hardinge, John Scalzi, Sydney Padua, and DC as guests of honour, I’m really looking forward to working with Farah Mendlesohn and the team on next year’s event!

Finally, some fiction news. Towards the end of last year, I put in an application to do a creative doctorate, and I’m happy to say the department accepted me. So, this coming Autumn, I’ll be starting on the DFA in Creative Writing programme at the University of Glasgow. I’ll be working with Zoe Strachan, Dr Rob Maslen, and Dr Matt Barr on a long-form project about patriarchal theory, video-gaming, and Hamlet. I’ll be hoping to keep my hand in Fantastic academia and aiming to get a couple of papers published during the course. For now, I’m really looking forward to getting stuck into a larger fiction project and tackling some ideas that have been on my mind since my time as a raider a decade ago.

In the meantime, this Summer will be devoted to finishing my dissertation for the MLitt in Fantasy in Glasgow, moving house, and maybe finishing the odd short story. Best get back to that, then…!

Well, okay, before I go, here’s a few of my highlights from GIFCon, as captured on camera and reported by twitter (with huge thanks to Gabe Cohen, Taylor Driggers, Marita Arvaniti, Emma McMullan, and the wonderful Tex Thompson):

https://twitter.com/emma_inklings/status/989767679966830597

https://twitter.com/FemaleGabe/status/989781325128306688

https://twitter.com/FemaleGabe/status/989782794258845696

https://twitter.com/TaylorWDriggers/status/989803353029926912

https://twitter.com/TaylorWDriggers/status/989803974646816768

https://twitter.com/TaylorWDriggers/status/989804351148392448

https://twitter.com/TaylorWDriggers/status/989804839071870976

https://twitter.com/TaylorWDriggers/status/989805370641211392

https://twitter.com/FemaleGabe/status/989805760040366080

https://twitter.com/TaylorWDriggers/status/989806121308377088

https://twitter.com/TaylorWDriggers/status/989806471226580993

https://twitter.com/TaylorWDriggers/status/989806829193572354

https://twitter.com/FemaleGabe/status/989806978116603904

https://twitter.com/TaylorWDriggers/status/989807432183484416

https://twitter.com/TaylorWDriggers/status/989807894307713024

https://twitter.com/FemaleGabe/status/989807910749384704

https://twitter.com/FemaleGabe/status/989809702652477440

https://twitter.com/TaylorWDriggers/status/989810166693588993

https://twitter.com/TaylorWDriggers/status/989819828469993472

 

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