This month:

• Be Our Guest
• Step Into Studio
• Amy’s Book Club
• Stay Tuned

Welcome back, Sirens! We have brilliant 2019 Guests of Honor to introduce you to, Sirens Studio summaries and faculty bios are up on the website (get your tickets!), we’re busy reading fantasy books.

Just a reminder: Sirens Studio is October 22–23, 2019; Sirens is October 24–27, 2019, and we’ll be at the Hilton Inverness Hotel in Denver, CO.

BE OUR GUEST

And let us reintroduce you to our 2019 Guests of Honor: Mishell Baker (Borderline), Ausma Zehanat Khan (The Bloodprint), Rebecca Roanhorse (Trail of Lightning), and for the first time at Sirens, a scholar, Dr. Suzanne Scott (Fake Geek Girls), and a Sirens Studio guest of honor, Roshani Chokshi (Aru Shah and the End of Time). We’ll be speaking to each of them in the coming months about their work, fantasy literature, and heroes, but get a head start reading their work here.

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STEP INTO STUDIO

Pencils ready? Sirens Studio summaries are live! Here is the list of faculty with their topics for reading, writing, and career intensives:

Reading

• Nia Davenport, “The Danger of a Single Narrative”
• Juliet Grames, “Not All Who Wander are Lost in Translation: A Behind-the-Scenes Discussion of Translated Literature”
• Dr. Jen Michaels, “Finding the ‘I’ in Team: Evaluating Roles in Fictional Collaborations”
• Rebecca Roanhorse, “I’M CAPSLOCK FOR SHORT FICTION”

Writing

• Mishell Baker, “Writing Despite Yourself: Working Through Mental Blocks and Mental Illness”
• Nilah Magruder, “The Visual Narrative: Developing Illustrated Projects and How to Write Like an Artist”

Career

• Sara Megibow, “Heroines Can Fly”
• Amy Tenbrink, “Negotiating Your Professional Life”

You’ll want to nab Studio tickets soon, since we’re limiting the attendance to 70. Read the full summaries and faculty bios over on the Sirens Studio page!

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AMY’S BOOK CLUB

Amy generally reads upwards of 150 books a year, and through the monthly Sirens book club, she shares her insights, opinions, and a teeny bit of her personal reading history. This month, she was smitten with Anna Meriano’s chapter book, Love Sugar Magic: A Dash of Trouble: “Please, fantasy authors… Give me more women with big business dreams and big family dreams and big dreams that they’ll achieve through hard work and smart business and just a bit of magic.” Read her full review on the blog and on Goodreads.

STAY TUNED

In February, we’ll have information on how you can apply for Sirens scholarships, Sirens co-founder Amy Tenbrink’s thoughts on our 2019 “heroes” theme, preliminary information about Sirens’s programming (which is presented by attendees!), and more.

Questions? Concerns? Please email general queries to (help at sirensconference.org) and questions about programming to (programming at sirensconference.org).