Events Manager

StabbyCon starts January 31st

Hello, and get ready for our first Stabbycon! As we announced late last year, we’re excited to be launching our 2022 Stabbycon, which we hope will be a regular feature on r/fantasy. We realize this is taking place a little later than we had originally announced, but we wanted to make sure we could put on the best event possible.

Our vision for StabbyCon is to celebrate what makes r/Fantasy and the speculative media community so great, and to bring a diverse group of creators into the spotlight through a series of virtual panels, roundtables and AMAs. We hope you’ll enjoy the range of events we’ve got scheduled, and help give a warm r/Fantasy welcome to all of our StabbyCon participants.

Schedule

To accommodate various time zones, each event will start at a scheduled time but will run throughout the day to allow all of our panelists and as many of you as possible a chance to participate. Even if you miss the start of an event, we’d love as many people to drop in as possible.

We will also update this post through Stabbycon so that you can check back in on anything you may have missed. You can also browse the Stabbycon collection to see all of our events.

We’ll also be running daily social threads so you can drop in and chat about each of our events, or anything else SFF related. Our regularly scheduled posts will also continue as per normal throughout the StabbyCon period.

Panels

• Jan 31st, 4pm EST | 9pm GMT – Worldbuilding from the Real World with Krista D. Ball, R.B. Lemberg, Rowenna Miller and Tasha Suri

• Feb 1st, 12pm EST | 5pm GMT – Unusual Biology with RJ Barker, Sue Burke, Sascha Stronach and Cadwell Turnbull

• Feb 3rd, 12pm EST | 5pm GMT – Visible Cracks: Personal and Intergenerational Trauma with K.D. Edwards, Akwaeke Emezi, Tyler Hayes, Charlotte Kersten and Virginia McClain

• Feb 4th, 12pm EST | 5pm GMT – Roleplaying as a Storytelling Mechanism with Whitney “Strix” Beltrán, James Mendez Hodes, Yeonsoo Julian Kim, Sadie Lowry, Hannah Rose and B. Dave Walters

• Feb 5th, 12pm EST | 5pm GMT – LitRPG and Progression Fantasy with John Bierce, Bernie Anés Paz, Katrine Buch Mortensen, Sarah Lin and Tao Wong

• Feb 6th, 3pm EST | 8pm GMT – Epic Fantasy with Mike Brooks, J.T. Greathouse, Sam Hawke, Andrea Stewart and Martha Wells

• Feb 7th, 12pm EST | 5pm GMT – Putting Your Heart on the Page: Writing from the Margins (Short Stories) with Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Johannes T. Evans, Eugenia Triantafyllou and John Wiswell

• Feb 8th, 4pm EST | 9pm GMT – Gothic Fantasy with A.K.M. Beach, S.T. Gibson, Catherine Lundoff and Caitlin Starling

• Feb 9th, 2:30pm EST | 7:30pm GMT – Climate Fiction with L.X. Beckett, Tobias S. Buckell, Micaiah Johnson, Caroline Hardaker, Claire North and Lorraine Wilson

• Feb 10th, 12pm EST | 5pm GMT – The Stories We Grew Up With – with Darcie Little Badger, Roseanne A. Brown, Intisar Khanani and SJ Whitby

Roundtables

• Jan 31st, 12pm EST | 5pm GMT – Stabby Weapons Roundtable with r/AskHistorians

• Feb 1st, 12pm EST | 5pm GMT – Editing Roundtable with C.L. Clark, Sarah Guan, S. Qiouyi Lu, Jared Shurin and Navah Wolfe

• Feb 2nd, 10am EST | 3pm GMT – Small Press Roundtable with Zelda Knight from Aurelia Leo, Martin Cahill from Erewhon Books, Abigail Walton from Forest Path Press, Francesca T Barbini from Luna Press, Tricia Reeks from Meerkat Press, dave ring from Neon Hemlock Press, Tice Cin from Tilted Axis Press and Margaret Curelas from Tyche Books

• Feb 3rd, 12pm EST | 5pm GMT – Nontraditional Dragons with Noor Al-Shanti, Marie Brennan, Stephanie Burgis, Quenby Olson and Cynthia Zhang

• Feb 4th, 12pm EST | 5pm GMT – Depicting Gender in Spec Fic with Linden A. Lewis, Ada Palmer, Alexandra Rowland, Rem Wigmore and A.C. Wise

• Feb 6th, 12pm EST | 5pm GMT – Where We Talk About Books Online with Fiction Fans, Libri Draconis, u/theinfophile and Thistle and Verse

• Feb 7th, 12pm EST | 5pm GMT – r/AskHistorians Group AMA

• Feb 8th, 12pm EST | 5pm GMT – Path to Publication Roundtable with Olivia Atwater, Isaac Fellman, T.J. Klune, A.J. Lancaster, Premee Mohamed, Michelle Sagara and Evan Winter

• Feb 9th, 12pm EST | 5pm GMT – Stabby Finalists Reception

Other Events

• Feb 2nd, 12pm EST | 5pm GMT – r/fantasy Show and Tell – come along and share what you’ve been working on; and swap tips, tricks and knitting patterns .

• Feb 5th, 12pm EST | 5pm GMT – r/fantasy Fireside Chat about the Forgotten Fantastic– join us to talk about your favorite forgotten classics, and other underrated books that deserve more love.

• Feb 10th, 12pm EST | 5pm GMT – r/fantasy Community Brunch As StabbyCon winds down, come chat about your favourite events and all the new books you’ve added to your TBR.

AMAs

• Jan 31st – Alechia Dow

• Feb 1st – Benjamin C. Kinney, Tara Sim

• Feb 2nd – A.K. Larkwood

• Feb 3rd – Saad Hossain

• Feb 4th – Shweta Adhyam

• Feb 5th – Rosiee Thor

• Feb 7th – Mike Chen

• Feb 8th – Kate Heartfield

• Feb 9th – Kate Elliott was unfortunately unable to make it for her AMA due to an emergency dental appointment.

• Feb 10th –Ciel Pierlot

• Feb 11th –Lina Rather

The 2021 Stabby Awards Winners

We’ll be hosting a Stabby finalists reception on Wednesday, Feb 9th and announcing the winners on Friday Feb 11th.

Toss a coin to your convention!

Fundraising for the Stabby Awards is ongoing. 100% of the proceeds go to the Stabby Awards, allowing us to purchase the shiniest of daggers and ship them around the world to the winners. Additionally, if our fundraising exceeds our goals, then we’ll be able to offer panelists an honorarium for joining us at StabbyCon. We also have special flairs this year, check out the info here.

If you’re enjoying StabbyCon and feeling generous, please donate!