Limited Seating Sessions (aka Lotteried Sessions) are ones with an attendance cap that require advanced signup. These include workshops, chill-n-chats, and limited gaming sessions. Any sessions that have openings after the lottery runs will be available for direct signup.
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There are open seats in several sessions. If you want to claim an open seat, or add yourself to the waiting list for a full one, you can now do so on the event platform.
| Title | Description | Presenter | Type | Tracks | Tags | Capacity | Start (UTC -5) | End (UTC -5) | ||
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| Group Crowdfunding: It's better together | Crowdfunding? As a group?? What it is, how it's done, and why you should consider building or participating in a group crowdfunding effort for your next campaign. We discuss all of the benefits of group crowdfunding, come up with ideas for group collections and collaboration rewards, and talk about all the ways you can do it better... together! | Aimee Cozza | 📓 Workshop | 🔄 Interdisciplinary | 💲 Industry Biz | 15 | 1.0, 1.5 | 9/18/2026 12:00 | 9/18/2026 13:30 | |
| Incorporating Neurodiversity into your worldbuilding and storytelling | A workshop with discussion of the umbrella of neurodiversity and how we can create worlds and plots around neurodiverse characters. | Denise Beucler | 📓 Workshop | 🔄 Interdisciplinary | 20 | 1.0, 1.5 | 9/18/2026 12:00 | 9/18/2026 13:30 | ||
| Chill-n-Chat with L. D. Colter | L. D. Colter | ☕ Chill-n-chat | 🖋 Writing | 5 | 2 | 9/18/2026 13:00 | 9/18/2026 14:00 | |||
| Introducing Yourself | How to answer basic questions like "So what do you make?" in a meaningful way. For many newer, introverted, neurodivergent, and/or anxious creators, talking about yourself and your work falls somewhere between stressful and impossible. In this 2-hr workshop, participants can select two different starting points (first timer and halfway there) and together work through identifying keywords and crafting answers to common questions that come up in creative conversation. Mindfully preparing for these interactions can facilitate stronger first impressions and produce answers that will stick. | A Humphrey Lanham | 📓 Workshop | 🔄 Interdisciplinary | 👥 Community, ⚙️ Skills, 🧰 Workshop | 12 | 3.0, 4.0 | 9/18/2026 14:00 | 9/18/2026 16:00 | |
| Chill-n-Chat with Marie Brennan | Marie Brennan | ☕ Chill-n-chat | 🖋 Writing | 5 | 3 | 9/18/2026 14:00 | 9/18/2026 15:00 | |||
| Chill-n-Chat with Cislyn Smith | Cislyn Smith | ☕ Chill-n-chat | 🔄 Interdisciplinary | 🎉 Squee | 5 | 4 | 9/18/2026 15:00 | 9/18/2026 16:00 | ||
| Franken-Formats (Combining Art, Design, and Writing) | Let's get out of our bubbles! Take risks, and challenge yourself to use your skills in innovative ways. | Rue Sparks | 📓 Workshop | 🦹 Comics, 🔄 Interdisciplinary | 🔧 Craft, 🧰 Workshop | 20 | 5.0, 6.0 | 9/18/2026 16:00 | 9/18/2026 18:00 | |
| Chill-n-Chat with D.A. Xiaolin Spires | D.A. Xiaolin Spires | ☕ Chill-n-chat | 🔄 Interdisciplinary | 5 | 5 | 9/18/2026 16:00 | 9/18/2026 17:00 | |||
| Chill-n-Chat with Stephen Granade | Stephen Granade | ☕ Chill-n-chat | 🔄 Interdisciplinary, ❗ Editing | 5 | 6 | 9/18/2026 17:00 | 9/18/2026 18:00 | |||
| Chill-n-Chat with Nghi Vo | Nghi Vo | ☕ Chill-n-chat | 🖋 Writing | 5 | 7 | 9/18/2026 18:00 | 9/18/2026 19:00 | |||
| Something is Wrong With This House: Ghosthunters | In a derelict mall at the heart of a dying suburb, a curse is said to linger. Dark fates await anyone who sets foot on the threshold of the abandoned JC Penny after dark. A team of intrepid ghost hunters are out to get to the bottom of it. And you? You are what lurks in the crumbling corridors, and you don't like trespassers. | 🎲 Limited Session Gaming | 🎮 Games | 6 | 8.0, 9.0 | 9/18/2026 19:00 | 9/18/2026 21:00 | |||
| Chill-n-Chat with Angwara Sae-Hoon | Angwara Sae-Hoon | ☕ Chill-n-chat | 5 | 8 | 9/18/2026 19:00 | 9/18/2026 20:00 | ||||
| Chill-n-Chat with John Zhu | John Zhu | ☕ Chill-n-chat | 🎧 Narrative A/V | 5 | 11 | 9/18/2026 22:00 | 9/18/2026 23:00 | |||
| Chill-n-Chat with Tehnuka | Tehnuka | ☕ Chill-n-chat | 🖋 Writing | 5 | 13 | 9/19/2026 0:00 | 9/19/2026 1:00 | |||
| Chill-n-Chat with Vida Cruz-Borja | Vida Cruz-Borja | ☕ Chill-n-chat | 🖋 Writing | 5 | 14 | 9/19/2026 1:00 | 9/19/2026 2:00 | |||
| Chill-n-Chat with Kat Clay | Kat Clay | ☕ Chill-n-chat | 🔄 Interdisciplinary | 5 | 15 | 9/19/2026 2:00 | 9/19/2026 3:00 | |||
| Chill-n-Chat with Ewen Ma | Ewen Ma | ☕ Chill-n-chat | 🔄 Interdisciplinary | 5 | 19 | 9/19/2026 6:00 | 9/19/2026 7:00 | |||
| Keep It Short | This workshop will share exercises and examples for writing flash and microfiction, exploring six elements of short short stories and including feedback from Apex managing editor Rebecca E Treasure | Rebecca Treasure | 📓 Workshop | 🖋 Writing | 🔧 Craft | 20 | 19.0, 19.5 | 9/19/2026 6:00 | 9/19/2026 7:30 | |
| Chill-n-Chat with Marguerite Kenner | Marguerite Kenner | ☕ Chill-n-chat | 🎧 Narrative A/V | 5 | 20 | 9/19/2026 7:00 | 9/19/2026 8:00 | |||
| Chill-n-Chat with Alasdair Stuart | Alasdair Stuart | ☕ Chill-n-chat | 🎧 Narrative A/V | 5 | 21 | 9/19/2026 8:00 | 9/19/2026 9:00 | |||
| Other minds: xenofiction, the art of nonhuman narrators, talking animal sidekicks, and truly alien aliens | Under unknown suns, on the other side of the door, in the shadows under the bed, it's remarkably common to find strange new creatures who appear to be humans in unconvincing Halloween costumes. Join us and practice a few techniques to craft a truly unknown unknown. | Malda Marlys | 📓 Workshop | 10 | 21.0, 21.5 | 9/19/2026 8:00 | 9/19/2026 9:30 | |||
| EXUVIAE: Relics of House Dragonfly | It's the forties. You live in a bayside city that's secretly under the control of an insect cult, and tonight you're going to prove it.EXUVIAE uses a single pack of playing cards to play a single sitting story of horror-noir investigation. No experience in horror roleplaying necessary. | Sean F. Smith | 🎲 Limited Session Gaming | 🎮 Games | 5 | 22.0, 23.0, 24.0 | 9/19/2026 9:00 | 9/19/2026 12:00 | ||
| Writer's Block? Try Poetry! | In this 90 minute workshop, LJ Cohen will guide participants through several self-contained poetry exercises designed to bring playfulness and creativity to the writing process. If the blank page is your worst nightmare, or the thought of opening your current WIP fills you with dread, come and explore some low-stress, low-stakes, judgement-free methods of finding your way back to the joy of words. Bring a writing implement and paper, please! We're going old school. | Lisa Janice Cohen | 📓 Workshop | 🖋 Writing | 🔧 Craft | 15 | 22.0, 22.5 | 9/19/2026 9:00 | 9/19/2026 10:30 | |
| Chill-n-Chat with Brandon O'Brien | Brandon O'Brien | ☕ Chill-n-chat | 🖋 Writing, 🎮 Games | 5 | 22 | 9/19/2026 9:00 | 9/19/2026 10:00 | |||
| Chill-n-Chat with V.M. Ayala | V.M. Ayala | ☕ Chill-n-chat | 📻 Non-Fiction A/V | 5 | 23 | 9/19/2026 10:00 | 9/19/2026 11:00 | |||
| Marketing Mayhem OR; ADVERTISING WHEN THE ALGORITHM IS YOUR ADVERSARY | Learn how to take your personality online and share your story’s unique beats and standout features through memes, stories, and what the 40 year old kids call “the poster’s spirit.” If you’ve ever felt your don’t know how to communicate what matters about your story, why people should care, or just want to have more fun doing advertising, come make memes, make merry, and yell at the algorithm in this fun, funky workshop where Val will teach you how to use online templates, MS Paint, and free assets to make your own material without worrying about what website is going to devolve into an AI slopfest next.Over the course of two hours, we’ll laugh, have fun, and learn how to be ourselves and breach containment with panache! | Val Evermech | 📓 Workshop | 🔄 Interdisciplinary | 💲 Industry Biz, ⚙️ Skills, 🧰 Workshop | 10 | 24.0, 25.0 | 9/19/2026 11:00 | 9/19/2026 13:00 | |
| Chill-n-Chat with Valerie Valdes/Lia Amador | Valerie Valdes | ☕ Chill-n-chat | 🔄 Interdisciplinary | 5 | 24 | 9/19/2026 11:00 | 9/19/2026 12:00 | |||
| Speculative Poetry Workshop for Beginners | Speculative poetry is poetry (verse) about imagined scenarios outside of everyday experience. For example, unlike literary poetry, in a speculative poem a ghost is both real and a metaphor. The themes of speculative poetry are vast and include, among others, fairy tales, fantasy, supernatural horror, magical realism, monsters, mythology, science fiction, superheroes/supervillians, surrealism, and the unclassifiable. In this workshop, Miguel O Mitchell will briefly describe speculative poetry markets and the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA). Then he will explain the mechanics of how to create five different forms of verse: free verse, scifaiku/horrrku, cinquain, pantoum, and prose poem. After reading an example of each form, we will discuss the traits that make the poem shine, including rhythm, imagery, evocation, and subtext. After our discussion, you will be given one or more prompts to use to create your own poem, and then we will discuss what you have shared on the screen with compassion and respect.(Note: Although all shared poems will be spoken, you are not required to read your poems out loud; Miguel can serve as reader if desired.) | Miguel O Mitchell | 📓 Workshop | 🖋 Writing | 🔧 Craft, ⚙️ Skills, 🧰 Workshop | 10 | 25.0, 26.0, 26.5 | 9/19/2026 12:00 | 9/19/2026 14:30 | |
| Telling Stories Through Book Covers | In this workshop, you will learn key design principles and how to plan a book cover that tells a story and engages readers. We will cover how to create better briefs if you are hiring a professional, as well as how to design your own cover using public domain assets and free tools. | Gabriele Burkoth de Andrade | 📓 Workshop | 🖌 Art / Illustration | 🔧 Craft, 💲 Industry Biz, ⚙️ Skills, 🧰 Workshop | 20 | 27.0, 28.0, 28.5 | 9/19/2026 14:00 | 9/19/2026 16:30 | |
| Chill-n-Chat with Jennifer Hudak | Jennifer Hudak | ☕ Chill-n-chat | 🖋 Writing | 5 | 28 | 9/19/2026 15:00 | 9/19/2026 16:00 | |||
| The Business of Being a Freelancer (1) | The first session of a two part workshop. Attendees do not need to attend both sessions but are welcome to.What is a business license? What is business insurance? What is a business plan? What do I need to know about taxes and bookkeeping in order to get by? Do I really need to put an address on my mailing list? What should I put into my contracts, and what should I watch out for? These are some of the hundreds of questions about setting up a freelancing business that can make the process feel overwhelming, or catch you by surprise when you didn't think about it first. This session will contain a brief presentation built out of questions from registered attendees submitted ahead of time, but will primarily be Q&A style with interaction between the presenter and attendees. If questions center on a few topics, the presentation will develop to do a deeper dive on those.This session will be most useful for folks working in the US as that is the only context where the speaker is competent. We can address folks working in the US from elsewhere to a limited extent. | Anaea Lay | 📓 Workshop | 🔄 Interdisciplinary | 💲 Industry Biz, 🗂 Managing, ⚙️ Skills, 🧰 Workshop | 15 | 29.0, 30.0 | 9/19/2026 16:00 | 9/19/2026 18:00 | |
| Chill-n-Chat with Celia Lake | Celia Lake | ☕ Chill-n-chat | 🖋 Writing | 5 | 29 | 9/19/2026 16:00 | 9/19/2026 17:00 | |||
| Chill-n-Chat with Johnnie Jae | Johnnie Jae | ☕ Chill-n-chat | 🔄 Interdisciplinary | 5 | 30 | 9/19/2026 17:00 | 9/19/2026 18:00 | |||
| Fantastical Facts for Strange Fiction: Building Speculative Concepts from Fungal Science | Some of the oldest and most expansive organisms on the planet, fungi are remarkably adaptable in terms of their own biology as well as their capacity for symbiosis with other living beings. They can do beautifully weird things that reflect both their consistent pursuit of resources and the changing state of their environment. This makes them a fascinating subject of study for finding worldbuilding inspiration: taking into consideration the history of a place, the evolving interactions of its residents, and the potential to reimagine laws of nature. This workshop will teach participants how to draw from cool science to develop speculative concepts that are personally meaningful. | Ayida Shonibar | 📓 Workshop | 🖋 Writing, 🔄 Interdisciplinary | 🧰 Workshop, 📚 Facts | 20 | 30.0, 30.5 | 9/19/2026 17:00 | 9/19/2026 18:30 | |
| Chill-n-Chat with the Editors of Otherside | M.R. Robinson, Ash Vale, V.M. Ayala | ☕ Chill-n-chat | ❗ Editing | 7 | 31 | 9/19/2026 18:00 | 9/19/2026 19:00 | |||
| Chill-n-Chat with JRH Lawless | JRH Lawless | ☕ Chill-n-chat | 🖋 Writing | 5 | 32 | 9/19/2026 19:00 | 9/19/2026 20:00 | |||
| Chill-n-Chat with S.M. Hallow | S. M. Hallow | ☕ Chill-n-chat | 🖋 Writing | 5 | 33 | 9/19/2026 20:00 | 9/19/2026 21:00 | |||
| Build A Setting workshop | Setting details bring your work to life and mark it as unique. But how to get there? Whether you're just starting to build a world or wrestling with the details of a work-in-progress, join Joyce Reynolds-Ward in developing a setting that fits your story... without having to call a rabbit a "smeerp!" | Joyce Reynolds-Ward | 📓 Workshop | 🖋 Writing | 🧰 Workshop, 🔧 Craft | 10 | 34.0, 35.0 | 9/19/2026 21:00 | 9/19/2026 23:00 | |
| Portfolio Review with Reimena Yee | Reimena Yee | 📓 Workshop | 🖌 Art / Illustration | 10 | 36.0, 37.0 | 9/19/2026 23:00 | 9/20/2026 1:00 | |||
| Chill-n-Chat with Rosemary Jones | Rosemary Jones | ☕ Chill-n-chat | 🖋 Writing | 5 | 37 | 9/20/2026 0:00 | 9/20/2026 1:00 | |||
| Chill-n-Chat with CD Covington | CD Covington | ☕ Chill-n-chat | 🔄 Interdisciplinary | 5 | 39 | 9/20/2026 2:00 | 9/20/2026 3:00 | |||
| Chill-n-Chat with Rebecca Treasure | Rebecca Treasure | ☕ Chill-n-chat | ❗ Editing, 🖋 Writing | 5 | 40 | 9/20/2026 3:00 | 9/20/2026 4:00 | |||
| Chill-n-Chat with Haralambi Markov | Haralambi Markov | ☕ Chill-n-chat | 5 | 41 | 9/20/2026 4:00 | 9/20/2026 5:00 | ||||
| Chill-n-Chat with Taylor Munsell | Taylor Munsell | ☕ Chill-n-chat | 🖋 Writing | 5 | 43 | 9/20/2026 6:00 | 9/20/2026 7:00 | |||
| Writing Premodern Mindsets | Do you ever tire of reading fiction in pre-modern settings, only to find that the characters are effectively modern people cosplaying in armor? Do you wonder how stories about premoderns could be written better?In this workshop, we will begin with a brief presentation and Q&A overviewing how premodern cultures and mindsets broadly differ from modern ones, how premodern mindsets might be better reflected in character motivations and interactions, and how (or whether) we might use this information to develop our narrative writing. After the Q&A, we'll set aside time in which to workshop participants' current drafts (a short story, a novel chapter, a comic, a character sketch, etc.) or projects that they're brainstorming, either in groups or individually. Through on-on-one discussion and/or group work, the host will try to address additional questions and provide feedback for all participants as time allows. | E.M. White | 📓 Workshop | 🖋 Writing | 📚 Facts, 🔧 Craft, 🧰 Workshop, 💭 Analysis | 20 | 46.0, 46.5 | 9/20/2026 9:00 | 9/20/2026 10:30 | |
| Chill-n-Chat with Diana M. Pho | Diana M. Pho | ☕ Chill-n-chat | ❗ Editing | 5 | 46 | 9/20/2026 9:00 | 9/20/2026 10:00 | |||
| Building a linguistic toolbox for names in your fictional world | Want to name some cities, but not have everything end in -burg? Looking for names for people but everything sounds off? In this workshop, linguist CD Covington will help you put together a plausible phonemic and morphemic toolbox for your world. | CD Covington | 📓 Workshop | 👂 Translation | 🧰 Workshop | 15 | 47.0, 48.0 | 9/20/2026 10:00 | 9/20/2026 12:00 | |
| Chill-n-Chat with LaShawn M. Wanak | LaShawn M. Wanak | ☕ Chill-n-chat | 🖋 Writing, ❗ Editing | 5 | 47 | 9/20/2026 10:00 | 9/20/2026 11:00 | |||
| The Charged Field - The Idea Practices of writers | A major part (and one of the signature joys) of writing is cultivating a process for catching, developing, cataloging, and deploying ideas. This includes ideas at every stage of drafting and editing, and at every scale: from the sentence-level to multi-book arcs. This class will demonstrate a range of techniques for foraging and remixing ideas from the wild -- reality or fiction -- and work them into your stories. We will perform idea-foraging exercises from art, film, writing and introduce different ways of cataloging the ideas that come up. This workshop will be a mix of idea generation, iteration and discussion. We will use multiple tools and prompts to generate the charged field, and then learn how to cull and combine ideas using a designing principle. The goal of the workshop is to leave the writers with a generative way of seeing the world and the art they consume, so that new ideas are never in short supply. | Sid Jain | 📓 Workshop | 🖋 Writing | 🔧 Craft, 🧰 Workshop | 15 | 48.0, 49.0 | 9/20/2026 11:00 | 9/20/2026 13:00 | |
| Fantastic Medieval Adventure Game | They sing songs of the desolation of dragons, of dungeons stuffed with knowledge hid. But it is your voice that will write those words and the pen is your spell and your sword.FMAG is simple off-brand D&D based on the classic version: perfect for dyed-in-the-wool veterans and newcomers alike. This will be a simple dungeon bash: for gold and glory! | Sean F. Smith | 🎲 Limited Session Gaming | 🎮 Games | 6 | 51.0, 52.0, 53.0 | 9/20/2026 14:00 | 9/20/2026 17:00 | ||
| The Business of Being a Freelancer (2) | This is the second of two sessions. Attendees can but are not required to attend the prior session. Familiarity with the material from the prior session is not required.This session will be a high-level overview of business planning, evaluation, and process setup for freelancers. There will be a presentation that covers what a business is and what it should include, how to evaluate whether a business is working, and how to identify process issues and what to do to improve them. Registered attendees will be encouraged to submit questions ahead of the session and the presentation will cater to them. While there will be a prepared presentation, it will be designed to be an interactive session leaning heavily on Q&A, with brief exercises for attendees to engage in during the session. The speaker's experience and competence is with US-based freelancing, but much of the content in this session will be applicable anywhere.Note: This is not the same as Dream Foundry's periodic Business Planning seminars, though some of the content will be similar. | Anaea Lay | 📓 Workshop | 🔄 Interdisciplinary | 💲 Industry Biz, 🗂 Managing, ⚙️ Skills, 🧰 Workshop | 15 | 53.0, 54.0 | 9/20/2026 16:00 | 9/20/2026 18:00 | |
| Chill-n-Chat with Alyc Helms | Alyc Helms | ☕ Chill-n-chat | 🔄 Interdisciplinary | 5 | 54 | 9/20/2026 17:00 | 9/20/2026 18:00 | |||
| A Land Once Magic | Join Guest of Honor V.M. Ayala to play "A Land Once Magic" together! | V.M. Ayala | 🎲 Limited Session Gaming | 📻 Non-Fiction A/V, 🎮 Games | ⚙️ Skills, 🧰 Workshop, 🗂 Managing | 10 | 55.0, 56.0 | 9/20/2026 18:00 | 9/20/2026 20:00 | |
| Chill-n-Chat with Priya Chand | Priya Chand | ☕ Chill-n-chat | ❗ Editing, 🖋 Writing | 5 | 55 | 9/20/2026 18:00 | 9/20/2026 19:00 | |||
| Chill-n-Chat with Akua Lezli Hope | Akua Lezli Hope | ☕ Chill-n-chat | 🖋 Writing | 5 | 56 | 9/20/2026 19:00 | 9/20/2026 20:00 | |||
| Chill-n-Chat with Chris Campbell | Chris Campbell | ☕ Chill-n-chat | 🖋 Writing | 5 | 57 | 9/20/2026 20:00 | 9/20/2026 21:00 |