David J. West writes dark fantasy and weird westerns because the voices in his head won’t quiet until someone else can hear them. He is a great fan of sword & sorcery, ghosts and lost ruins, so of course he lives in Utah. Schedule: Sat, 10am: “Writing Historical Fantasy” (panel) Sat 3pm: “The State of …
Eric G. Swedin is a professor of history at Weber State University. His doctorate is in the history of science and technology. He has extensive experience in the computer field. His publications include numerous articles and three books on the history of computing. His website is swedin.org. He is also the author of five novels, …
Are you saving your finished books for this year’s Great Paperback Swap? You should be!
Rick Partlow is that rarest of species, a native Floridian. Born in Tampa, he attended Florida Southern College and graduated with a degree in History and a commission in the US Army as an Infantry officer. His lifelong love of science fiction began with Have Space Suit—Will Travel and the other Heinlein juveniles and traveled …
We have a trimmed-down draft schedule posted here! A few panel assignments are still being made, but once it’s final, we’ll display it with all the trimmings. (In other words, you now mostly know who and you know what, and in a couple of weeks you’ll know who’s doing what!) (Confession: I’ve been reading a …
Joe Monson loves reading, books, and butter mochi. He has worked at a couple dozen different jobs during his life, including translating and editing Engineer into English. He valiantly battles worms, trojans, viruses, corruption, and updates to keep computer systems running while also expanding the accessible knowledge of the world by night. He edited the …
Jay Barnson is the author of the Blood Creek Saga, the Vanished series, and dozens of published short stories and articles. He’s a former (or lapsed?) video game developer based in the Salt Lake City area. By day, he creates Virtual Reality-based training simulators, and by night he writes imaginary worlds. It’s questionable if he …
There have been reports of some errors with our online shopping cart. Fortunately, we have a couple of workarounds. Some people have trouble specifically with ordering T-shirts — for some reason, instead of showing a shopping cart for them, the page simply refreshes. The workaround is to go to the shopping cart yourself at https://writerscantina.org/cart. …
Yes, I went to college and learned a lot about literature and history. Yes, I am a badass about writing and fighting. But what really matters? My business is WORDS. I destroy dragons and sequence fight scenes. I delve into unknown magical worlds and find homes for misplaced modifiers. I develop cures for apocalyptic diseases …
Don’t forget — there are Writers Cantina T-shirts for order! Pre-orders will close at the end of May (to give us time to print them up) — we’ll also have some extras at the event, but you’re not guaranteed to find your size available. Pre-order them here!