From March 25-27 I’ll be attending MidSouthCon 29 as the Author Guest of Honor. This will be my first time as a GoH and I couldn’t be more pleased for it to be at a convention that focuses on literacy and education. This Memphis based convention has been running for almost thirty years.
Besides the usual programming with writers, gamers, editors, artists and scientists, they also hold a seminar for educators and librarians, a writers’ conference with workshops by award winning authors and editors, and annual student art and writing contests. They are doing a lot of wonderful outreach which can only strengthen the field.
The other Guests of Honor are: Artist Guest of Honor, Nene Thomas; Gaming Guest of Honor, Monte Cook; Comics Guest of Honor, Kurt Busiek; Costuming Guest of Honor, Kelldar; Editor Guest of Honor, Jackie Gamber; and Toastmaster, The great Luke Ski.
I’m very much looking forward to attending and hope to see some of you there.
Excellent! I live in northern Alabama, and we don’t get too many conventions around here. My gf and I went to MidSouthCon a couple of years ago to meet C.J. Cherryh, and said we’d go back if there was ever some other special author to meet. I expect we’ll see you there! 🙂
Fantastic! I hope you do come out.