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July 10-12, 2015
Radisson Hotel, High Point, NC 
www.con-gregate.com 

Additional scheduling information (reg hours, gaming information, dealer room, authors alley, consuite and area food map) can be found HERE.
Saturday, July 11 • 3:00pm - 3:50pm
Improving Cultural Diversity In SF

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From cons to stories to TV and Film, how do we as fans reach out to different races, cultures and make them more welcome and more obvious in SF.           

 


Moderators
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Misty Massey

Literary Guest
Misty Massey is the author of MAD KESTREL, a rollicking adventure of magic on the high seas (Tor), KESTREL'S VOYAGES, a collection of short stories featuring those rambunctious pirates (Amazon) and the upcoming KESTREL'S DANCE (Lore Seekers Press).  She is a co-editor of THE WEIRD... Read More →

Guests
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Laura Haywood-Cory

Literary Guest
Laura Haywood-Cory has been some flavor of editor or proofreader since her first job after college, which was proofreading yellow page listings for a phone book company.She's been involved in science fiction fandom since the mid-1980s. She has managed two different sf conventions... Read More →
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Nicole Givens Kurtz

Literary Guest
Nicole Givens Kurtz is the author of the science fiction/cyberpunk, Cybil Lewis, series. Her novels have been named as finalist in the 2006 Fresh Voices in Science Fiction, EPPIE finalists in Science fiction, and DREAM REALM AWARDS Finalist in science fiction. She's a member of the... Read More →
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Emily Lavin Leverett

Literary Guest
Emily Lavin Leverett is a fantasy, sci-fi, and horror writer from North Carolina. Her works have appeared in FLASH FICTION ONLINE and DRAFTHORSE: A JOURNAL OF WORK AND NO WORK, and will appear in Summer 2015 in ATHENA’S DAUGHTERS II from Silence in the Library. She also edits, with... Read More →
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Alicia McCalla

Literary Guest
Alicia McCalla writes for both new adults and adults with her brand of multicultural urban fantasy, paranormal, romance, and horror. Her stories always include strong women heroines who fight back, sometimes to the death. Alicia is an activist in the movement towards diversifying... Read More →
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Jay Posey

Gaming Guest
Jay Posey is an author and game designer who has been writing professionally for over a decade. He’s the author of the best-selling Legends of the Duskwalker series, including THREE and MORNINGSIDE FALL. Currently Senior Narrative Designer at Ubisoft/Red Storm Entertainment, Jay... Read More →
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Randy Richards

Dungeons & Dragons / Fantasy Author, Spellbinder Games
Randy Richards originally hails from Chalmette, Louisiana, the actual location of the "Battle of New Orleans". He currently lives in the South, where he runs a photography business and writes professionally.Randy Richards has been playing Dungeons & Dragons since the late 70s, but... Read More →


Saturday July 11, 2015 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
Provincial A-B
  Panel (Experts Talk)

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