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World Fantasy Convention 2021 Progress Report 2 World Fantasy Convention 2021 Progress Report 2 Fantasy, Imagination, and the Dreams of Youth I hope everyone enjoyed the holidays your nominations. Every eligible person and is hope that everyone has a much (members of WFC 2019, 2020, and better 2021, even those that had a 2021) should nominate. good 2020! We’re so excited to have the The Awards Banquet will be held Sunday, opportunity to plan this year’s World November 7th, 2021. We will announce Fantasy Convention. We’ve assembled a the menu choices and start accepting great staff who have the skill and talent reservations during the summer. We to make this World Fantasy Convention also plan to arrange some activities for special for everyone. We are all working to our members on Wednesday night and make the convention a place where artists, Thursday afternoon before the start of the authors, editors, and fans come together convention. to celebrate all aspects of Fantasy. We’ve put together this progress report In the midst of these difficult times, to give you a taste of what’s in store we want to assure everyone that we are for you at WFC 2020. Our team is actively monitoring the COVID-19 hard at work planning the art show, situation. We’re working hard to ascertain the hospitality suite, autograph session, every contingency that may have an dealers’ room, a comprehensive program, impact on WFC 2021. We will make readings, receptions, parties, and modifications to our plans accordingly everything else, including an amazing to keep our membership safe. We Guest of Honour list, that makes World sincerely hope there will be progress in Fantasy Convention stand out as a not controlling and conquering the virus long to be missed event. Plus, Montréal is a before our convention, and we are quite wonderful city with a great food culture, confident we will be able to hold an in- marvellous art, and a rich history. You person convention. We look forward to might want to extend your trip by a few welcoming you all to Montréal. Please feel days to explore the area. The hotel rates free to contact us at any time with your are available 3 days before and 3 days after concerns or questions. the con. The World Fantasy Awards Nomination See you in Montréal! Ballot is included in this Progress Report. Please take the time to submit Diane Lacey Chair 2 Fantasy, Imagination, and the Dreams of Youth For many years the subgenre of ‘Young where anything is possible, beyond the Adult’ has been incredibly popular. We constraints of mainstream literature. grew up on Brian Jacque’s Redwall and Fantasy elements also allow allegorical Andre Norton’s Fantasy and Science exploration of issues of authority and Fiction, both. Many of us are familiar responsibility, peer pressure, and other with Tamora Pierce’s Circle of Magic forms of economic and social conflict. and Defender of the Small series. Many Characters based on mythology or pure libraries and bookstores in the early imagination can transcend conventional years considered all SF&F as ‘children’s definitions and roles and explore questions literature’; a stigma still unfortunately of diversity and gender, racial, and cultural strong today. Since the success of the identities. Harry Potter series of books, the field of In blurring the boundaries between young adult fantasy has become much children’s and adult fiction, fantasy gives more acceptable to the mainstream, us many delightful worlds and creatures growing from being merely popular to deal with real emotional and social to becoming a dominant category of values. Young adult fiction leads readily st 21 century literature, bringing millions of into Magic Realism and Slipstream. The new readers to hundreds of new authors. genre celebrates fantasy fiction in all of its While focusing on younger protagonists, forms: epic, dark, paranormal, urban, and these stories appeal to all ages, including other varieties. mature readers reminded of their own age of wonder, and of the challenges everyone We invite members to share what they faces in adapting to the obligations and enjoy, what they have learned, what they opportunities of an adult world where have written themselves, and what they new rules and situations are not always hope to see coming in the field of young understood. Using a milieu of magic and adult fantasy fiction. mystery allows writers to make stories Committee Chair .....................................Diane Lacey Restaurant Guide ..................... Jo Walton Vice-Chair ...............................Terry Fong Accessibility ......................Elizabeth Cano Chair’s Advisor .........................Bruce Farr Hotel Liaison .....................Dave Gallaher Registration ...........................Chris Smith Guest of Honour Liaison ..Debi Chowdhury Finance ....................................Bruce Farr Storage and Logistics ..................Jeff Orth Art Show .......... Jannie Shea, Joni Dashoff Dockmaster ......................... Chris Marble Dealers Room ..................Elizabeth Cano Social Media ........Marah Searle-Kovacevic Customs Liaison .................... Laurie Mair Website ............. Cenk Gökçe, Terry Fong Programme ................... Deanna Sjolander Progress Reports ..................Shirley Meier Autograph Session ............... Ginny Smith Souvenir Book .................... James Murray Banquet .................... Ann Marie Rudolph Volunteer Coordinator ...Ruth Lichtwardt Information ................... Rebecca Downey 3 Guests of Honour Nisi Shawl – Shawl’s dozens of acclaimed stories Author Guest of Honour have appeared in Analog and Asimov’s Science Fiction magazines, among other publications. Many are collected in their 2009 Tiptree Award winner Filter House (2008, Aqueduct), and in two more recent volumes: Exploring Dark Fiction #3: A Primer to Nisi Shawl (2018, Dark Moon) and Talk Like a Man (2019, PM Press). Their “Everfair-adjacent” story “Vulcanization” appears in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2017, and their short story “Black Betty” was selected by LeVar Burton for inclusion in his live podcast series LeVar Burton Reads. Shawl edited New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color (2019, Solaris), recipient of the Locus, Brave New Words, and Fiyah Magazine awards, and, recently, the 2020 British Multiple award-winner Nisi Shawl wrote Fantasy Award for Best Anthology. They the 2016 Nebula finalist and James have edited and co-edited several other Tiptree, Jr. Honor novel Everfair, an anthologies, such as Stories for Chip: A alternate history in which the Congo Tribute to Samuel R. Delany; and Strange overthrows King Leopold II’s genocidal Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, regime. African American Voices, and Octavia In 2005, with Cynthia Ward, they E. Butler; both Locus Award finalists. co-wrote Writing the Other: A Practical They contribute reviews and columns Approach, now the standard text on to The Seattle Times, Ms. Magazine, The diverse character representation in the Washington Post, and Tor.com. They have imaginative genres, and the basis of their lectured at Duke University, Spelman online and in-person classes of the same College, the University of Hawaii Manoa, name. They’re a founder of the inclusivity- and elsewhere. Shawl’s Middle Grade focused Carl Brandon Society and have historical fantasy, Speculation, is due out served on the Clarion West Writers in 2021 from Lee & Low. Currently they Workshop’s board of directors for over are finishing a draft of Kinning, a sequel to twenty years. Everfair. 4 Guests of Honour John Picacio – founder of the creative imprint, Lone Boy, Artist Guest of Honour which has become the launchpad for his Loteria Grande cards, a bold contemporary re-imagineering of the classic Mexican game of chance. For more, please visit www.johnpicacio.com and his Twitter feed at @JohnPicacio. André-François Ruaud – Editor Guest of Honour John Picacio is one of the most acclaimed American artists in fantasy, horror, and science fiction over the last decade, creating bestselling art for George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, as well as major cover illustrations for authors such as Michael Moorcock, Harlan Elison, Brenda Cooper, James André-François Ruaud is a French Dashner, Frederik Pohl, Dan Simmons, publisher and writer who lives in Mark Chadbourn, Sheri S. Tepper, James Bordeaux (France). He is the author of Tiptree, Jr., Lauren Beukes, Jeffrey Ford, some twenty essays about science fiction, Joe R. Lansdale, and many, many more. fantasy and crime fiction. He has also Major clients include Penguin Random written novels and children books, most House, Tor Books, HarperCollins, recently an alternative history series under Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, Saga Press, the pen name of Olav Koulikov. As a Subterranean Press, Baen Books, Dark publisher he has, since 2004, managed Horse, and many more. His accolades an independent publishing house, Les include the World Fantasy Award, two Moutons électriques (“Electric Sheep”, Hugo Awards, Chesley Awards, two Locus in French), specializing in SF and fantasy Awards, two International Horror Guild and focusing on original French-language Awards, and the Inkpot Award. He is the works. 5 Guests of Honour Owl Goingback – Special Guest customs and folklore of the American Indians, served in the military, owned a restaurant/lounge, and worked as a cemetery caretaker. Yves Meynard – Special Guest Owl Goingback has been writing professionally for over thirty years, and is the author of numerous novels,
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