Meg Elison is a science fiction author and feminist essayist. Her series, The Road to Nowhere, won the 2014 Philip K. Dick award. She was a James A. Tiptree Award Honoree in 2018. In 2020, she is publishing her first collection, called “Big Girl” with PM Press and her first young adult novel, “Find Layla” with Skyscape. Meg has been published in McSweeney’s, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fangoria, Uncanny, Lightspeed, Nightmare, and many other places. Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley. Find her online, where she writes like she’s running out of time.
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Sessions in which Meg Elison participates
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
- Family: Embracing Groups on the Edges of Sci Fi Fandom Gateway Center - Illini A
- 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
9:00 PM
9:00 PM
- After Dark: Writing Sex Scenes (21+) Gateway Center - Marquette A
- 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM | 1 hour
- Learn when to use sex scenes and how to make them enhance your story, not drag it down with awkwardness. Those with minor badges will not be all...
- Panel
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Star Trek and Today's Audiences Gateway Center - Salon 6
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- Panel
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
- Role Playing Meets Real Life DoubleTree - Collinsville - Madison C & D
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- What Made You Want to Write? Gateway Center - Marquette A
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
- Author Reading with Meg Elison, Jan Gephardt, and Lettie Prell Gateway Center - Illini A
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour
- Reading / Signing / Art Demo