By Daniel Dern: [In addition to his photos taken onsite this weekend, Dern offered this “quotable tidbit” from ReaderCon 30 — ] The “Remembering Gene Wolfe” session was amazing and wonderful. Howard Waldrop opened with what could easily have been … Continue reading
Daniel Dern shares his pictures of guests, panelists and vendors who participated in Readercon 29 over the July 12-15 weekend. GoH Nisi Shawl More photos follow the jump.
Readercon’s Board of Directors posted an apology to Facebook for the letter sent to some of its past program participants informing them they would not be invited back this year. The full text of the apology is below. A number … Continue reading
Kathryn Cramer announced on Facebook that she has asked the Readercon board to investigate whether its program organizers engaged in age discrimination while culling their program participants list and violated the convention’s own Code of Conduct. Several older white male … Continue reading
The next Readercon is a month away and its committee, striving to recover from last year’s seismic controversy, has issued a safety update: a revised Code of Conduct that will be in effect for Readercon 24, plus supporting policies and … Continue reading
Readercon has made series of decisions to stem the controversy over its handling of harassment complaints and to heal its community. You could always click through and read their full statement. And really, isn’t that the best plan? The Readercon convention committee apologized to … Continue reading
The chair of Readercon 23, Crystal Huff, has responded to the controversy on her Livejournal: I value safe spaces, and I am confident that this is a priority for Readercon people, as well. Many Readercon staffers are the same people … Continue reading
When author Genevieve Valentine came home from Readercon she protested the harassment she’d experienced from a man at the con – repeated, unwanted touching – and described the discomfort she felt when he approached to apologize and remained in the … Continue reading
(1) OTHERWISE AWARD UPDATE. Sumana Harihareswara, Motherboard chair, has shared news about the Otherwise Award in “Our pause and interim plans”. As has been the case for many volunteer-run organizations, the Otherwise Award has struggled since the start of the … Continue reading
By Daniel Dern: I’d been noodling this piece on “where to find/e-find Nina Kiriki Hoffman’s fiction” for the past few weeks, and, conveniently, Item (1) in the Dec 15, 2023 scroll, noting and excerpting Episode 214 of Scott Edelman’s Eating the Fantastic podcast both … Continue reading