WisCon Online
May. 20th, 2026 11:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynnegaThis weekend I'll be participating in WisCon Online! I miss in-person WisCon, but I'm very much looking forward to this. Here is the programming I'm on:
Frankensteins and Their Monsters
Online Zoom Room 4 • Reading, Viewing, and Critiquing Science Fiction • Sat 7:00 PM–8:15 PM CDT
Prompted by Guillermo del Toro recent adaptation of Frankenstein let's talk about the adaptation history of the original text! How do the adaptations deal with the horrors of creation, revenge, and isolation? How do they feed each other, so that a Frankenstein adaptation adapts both the novel and the Universal monster? And what does it do to Frankenstein and the wretch to make them recurring characters on TV shows?
S.M. Hallow, Gwynne Garfinkle, Sophia Babai, Mod: Anika Dane
Embodiment, Planets, Health, Earth
Online Zoom Room 5 • Readings • Sat 8:30 PM–9:45 PM CDT
Speculative Poetry: on ecopoetics, disability, embodied ways of knowing.
Anonymous, Petra Kuppers, Gwynne Garfinkle
Never-Too-Late Futures
Online Zoom Room 2 • The Craft and Business of Writing • Sun 4:00 PM–5:15 PM CDT
Publishing discourse loves "30 under 30," but many speculative fiction authors publish their first novel in their 40s, 50s, 60s, or later. This panel invites older debuts and late-blooming writers to talk about craft, career realities, disability and energy, caretaking, and ageism in the field. What pressures and freedoms come with starting "late," and what does a sustainable, politically engaged writing life look like beyond the hustle?
Esker Park, Catherine Lundoff, Mod: Andrea Hairston, Gwynne Garfinkle, Sam Wilket
Frankensteins and Their Monsters
Online Zoom Room 4 • Reading, Viewing, and Critiquing Science Fiction • Sat 7:00 PM–8:15 PM CDT
Prompted by Guillermo del Toro recent adaptation of Frankenstein let's talk about the adaptation history of the original text! How do the adaptations deal with the horrors of creation, revenge, and isolation? How do they feed each other, so that a Frankenstein adaptation adapts both the novel and the Universal monster? And what does it do to Frankenstein and the wretch to make them recurring characters on TV shows?
S.M. Hallow, Gwynne Garfinkle, Sophia Babai, Mod: Anika Dane
Embodiment, Planets, Health, Earth
Online Zoom Room 5 • Readings • Sat 8:30 PM–9:45 PM CDT
Speculative Poetry: on ecopoetics, disability, embodied ways of knowing.
Anonymous, Petra Kuppers, Gwynne Garfinkle
Never-Too-Late Futures
Online Zoom Room 2 • The Craft and Business of Writing • Sun 4:00 PM–5:15 PM CDT
Publishing discourse loves "30 under 30," but many speculative fiction authors publish their first novel in their 40s, 50s, 60s, or later. This panel invites older debuts and late-blooming writers to talk about craft, career realities, disability and energy, caretaking, and ageism in the field. What pressures and freedoms come with starting "late," and what does a sustainable, politically engaged writing life look like beyond the hustle?
Esker Park, Catherine Lundoff, Mod: Andrea Hairston, Gwynne Garfinkle, Sam Wilket
