Readercon / Worlds of Possibility

I had a wonderful Readercon, which is a good thing, considering how difficult it was to get there. Bad weather resulted in my flight being diverted to Pittsburgh, where we sat in the plane for three hours and in the terminal for another hour. Fortunately, we didn't have to spend the night in Pittsburgh, though I didn't make it to my hotel until after 3 a.m. Once there, it was great to catch up with friends, and I thoroughly enjoyed the panels and readings I participated in and those I attended as an audience member. The Sylvia Townsend Warner panel and the Fantasy Magazine reading were especially rich.

There are friends who I wish could have been there, and other friends I only got to see in passing, but I'm very glad I attended. For the most part I was impressed by Readercon's COVID precautions. I was less than thrilled that some participants ignored the very clear masking requirements or treated them as something to negotiate on a case-by-case basis.

Now I am home and wildly jetlagged (after a blessedly uneventful trip home), and I'm happy to reveal that my poem "the jacarandas consider blooming" will appear in the Worlds of Possibility anthology, edited by Julia Rios! I got to debut the poem at Julia's Readercon reading, which was a lot of fun.