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Keynote: Casey Parks, award-winning journalist and author of Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery, opens the conference at 10:00am.

Location: Most workshops will be held in-person in the Roger Rook building on the Clackamas Community College Oregon City campus. The keynote address and select workshops will be available to attend virtually via Zoom.

Address: 19600 Molalla Avenue, Oregon City, OR 97045, United States

Workshops: After the keynote address, participants can choose between five morning sessions and five afternoon sessions covering topics including poetry, mystery fiction, science fiction, graphic novels, playwriting, and composition.

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Saturday, May 18 • 1:30pm - 2:45pm
Avoiding Infodump in Speculative Fiction

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Infodump is a major occupational hazard in fiction—especially for writers of fantasy and SF. After all your worldbuilding, all your hard-SF research, how do you introduce backstory or technical details without bogging down your story? Join award-winning fantasy & SF author Joe Pitkin for tips dealing with this challenge—including examples from his most recent novel, Exit Black, published by Blackstone this year!
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Joe Pitkin

Joe Pitkin’s short stories have appeared in the Boston Review, Analog, Black Static, Cosmos, and other magazines and podcasts, as well as on his blog, The Subway Test. His most recent novel, Exit Black, was published by Blackstone in 2024. He teaches at Clark College in Vancouver... Read More →

Saturday May 18, 2024 1:30pm - 2:45pm PDT
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