Author News: December – So Much to Catch up On! (Portland, OR-centric)

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Emerging from burial under an exhausting, invigorating, warp-speed teaching term, I have so much news to catch up on! Prepare for snippets that deserve more space. This issue…

* Spoon Knife 4: A Neurodivergent Guide to Spacetime
* Jolabokaflod PDX Book Festival This December
* Book-Pod Podcast
* Anarres Project: Just Futures Symposium
* Positive Dystopia
* Thoughts on OryCon

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Short Neurodivergent SF Story Published
My short story “Veils and Gifts” has been published in Spoon Knife 4: Neurodivergent Guide to Spacetime, on sale now. The anthology’s theme is neurodivergent queer characters involved with time travel. Astoundingly, the backstory to my indie film The Eater fit the bill. So here it is: everything the world’s three and a half Eater fans ever wanted to know about how that giant, derelict ship got out there! Plus a diverse array of neurodivergent, queer time travel adventures!

Spoon Knife 4

Jolabokaflod PDX Book Festival Is Coming
Jolabokaflod PDX is festival in the Icelandic tradition of ushing in the new year with good books. I will be tabling there with Arthur Smid, December 28, 2:30-5:30 p.m. at Nordic Northwest, 8800 SE Olesen Rd., Portland, OR 97223. Thanks to Margaret Pinard (Twitter @ tastelifetwice) for holding the event!Read more… )

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Arwen Spicer
Arwen Spicer

Arwen Spicer is a science fiction writer and writing teacher raised in the San Fransciso Bay Area, and Northern California will hold her heart forever, even if it turns into a desert. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on ecology in utopian science fiction and is an educator on the concept of workable utopias. Her novel The Hour before Morning was hailed as “A carefully paced, rewarding sci-fi debut” by Kirkus Indie.

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Arwen Spicer

Arwen Spicer

Arwen Spicer is a science fiction writer and writing teacher raised in the San Fransciso Bay Area, and Northern California will hold her heart forever, even if it turns into a desert. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on ecology in utopian science fiction and is an educator on the concept of workable utopias. Her novel The Hour before Morning was hailed as “A carefully paced, rewarding sci-fi debut” by Kirkus Indie.

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