An amazing group of writers stepped up to act as faculty for this year’s ArmadilloCon Writers’ Workshop!
- Donna Dechen Birdwell: A journalist turned anthropologist turned artist turned novelist. Beyond the Endless (2022), the final volume of her far-future EarthCycles trilogy, is her seventh novel.
- Marie Brennan: World Fantasy and Hugo Award-nominated author of the Memoirs of Lady Trent series, the Onyx Court, and more!
- Cassandra Rose Clarke: Nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award, the RT Reviewer’s Choice Award, the Pushcart Prize, and YALSA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults. Latest novels are The Beholden and Singing with the Devil.
- Clayton Hackett: Attorney and short fiction writer whose work has appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Pseudopod, and elsewhere.
- Vivien Jackson: Vivien Jackson writes fantastical, futuristic kissing books. Her debut SF romance Wanted & Wired was an Amazon Best Book of 2017 and a Romance Writers of America RITA finalist.
- SPECIAL GUEST Ellen Klages: Winner of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction, the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Gaylactic Spectrum Award, and more.
- Marshall Ryan Maresca: Writers’ Workshop Instructor. fantasy and science-fiction writer, author of the Maradaine Saga, co-host of the Hugo-nominated, Stabby-winning podcast Worldbuilding for Masochists
- William Ledbetter: Nebula Award winning author with two novels and more than seventy speculative fiction short stories and non-fiction articles in markets such as Asimov’s, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Analog.
- SPECIAL GUEST Fonda Lee: Author of the epic fantasy Green Bone Saga, which began with Jade City. Jade City was shortlisted for the 2018 Sunburst Award (adult novel by a Canadian author), was a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Novel, was a finalist for the 2018 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, and won the 2018 World Fantasy Award.
- TOASTMASTER Cass Morris: Her debut series, The Aven Cycle, is Roman-flavored historical fantasy. From Unseen Fire was published by DAW Books in 2018, and won the 2019 RavenCon Webster Award.
- Michelle Muenzler: Fiction both dark and strange, including The Hills of Meat, the Forest of Bone (a Broken Cities novella).
- Jessica Reisman: Stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. She’s had two novels published, and her first story collection, The Arcana of Maps and Other Stories, came out in 2021.
- Amber Royer: Writes the Chocoverse comic telenovela-style foodie-inspired space opera series, and the Bean to Bar Mysteries. Also the author of Story Like a Journalist: a Workbook for Novelists!
- Holly Lyn Walrath: Writers’ Workshop Instructor. Publisher, editor, writer of poetry and short fiction (Strange Horizons, Fireside Fiction, Analog). Books: Glimmerglass Girl, Numinose Lapidi, and The Smallest of Bones.
- Barbara Ann Wright: Fantasy and science fiction novelist. Editor with Bold Strokes Books. Winner of six Rainbow Awards and been shortlisted for Lambda and Golden Crown Awards!