Sarah Haasz shares her career journey, how she ended up creating "Gangnam Project" and what inspires her work. After 20 years as a Broadcast Executive for various children's programming networks in Canada, Sarah Haasz has taken her robust industry experience directly to kids television production, creating original series and assisting producers in bringing their shows to fruition. Sarah recently wrapped “Gangnam Project”, the live action K-pop drama/comedy series she created and which she'll be talking about today. She also produced the Emmy-nominated “Circuit Breakers”, a live action anthol ..read more

Writer Jesse Zimmerman discusses what inspired him to write, the difficulties of publishing and how he created his main character, "the Challenger" in his first book, Our Adventures with the Challenger. At time 22:00 he reads from Our Adventures with the Challenger. Jesse has always lived, worked, and studied in Toronto. Growing up, Jesse enjoyed fiction, particularly speculative fiction and fantasy, anything imaginative. He began writing at a very young age on a DOS computer, creating short stories and little novellas. In his teens he was particularly interested in fantasy, having fond memori ..read more

Author Kit Daven unveils why AI serves as her creative ally, how to utilize AI as a valuable tool to seek feedback on her writing, and why the notion that writers should harbor any fear of AI should be dismissed. Kit Daven’s heart beats for the eerie and the extraordinary in her tales. Even her sci fantasy series, which begins with The Forgotten Gemstone, unfolds in The Other Castle, and culminates in The Starry Rise, possesses demonly threads running through the trans-dimensional landscape. Her most recent work, The Arrest in Mannequin Row, steps out of the fantasy realm into an urban one, wh ..read more

Writer and editor Matthew Gordon shares how he juggles editing eight books at once while writing, researching and working; advice for surviving writing as a marathon and how he manages his time. Matthew Gordon's short fiction has appeared in Amazing Stories, in High Shelf Press, in The Quilliad, and in The Exhibitionist. His non-fiction has appeared in The Huffington Post, The Sporting News, The Billfold and on RealGM.com. He has lived in Ontario, New York, Texas and Alberta. He now lives in his hometown of Toronto, Ontario. At time 21:00 he reads Wound ..read more

On the Artsy Raven M.A.C. Farrant describes her journey of becoming a prize-winning writer, the Zenlike process of discovery when she writes and how cows inspired her latest Jigsaw Puzzle book. M.A.C. Farrant - Marion Farrant has been writing and publishing since the 1980s:  18 works of fiction, non-fiction and memoir; two produced plays, countless book reviews for the Vancouver Sun and Toronto Globe & Mail; and over a dozen chapbooks.  Along with Pauline Holdstock she ran the Sidney Reading Series from 1994 – 2009. Her books have been a finalist for many awards, among them the C ..read more

Writer Cormack Baldwin describes what it was like growing up in a family of writers, why he started an online zine featuring unusual formats for telling stories, and how he juggles multiple jobs while pursuing a literary career. Cormack Baldwin is a speculative fiction writer, editor, and disaster human. When frightened, he frequently recounts long tales about his hometown's disappearing and reappearing graveyards or his most recent brush with fate before fleeing into the night. Links: Archive of the Odd Zine - archiveoftheodd.wordpress.com Twitter - @cormackbaldwin Link to End All Links - cmb ..read more

ANALOG editor Trevor discusses the impact of AI on writers, the effect AI has on the editing process and how AI can be used as a tool for writers and editors. Before taking the reigns of ANALOG SCIENCE FICTION & FACT as editor in 2012, Trevor started off as an editorial assistant in 1999 and worked his way up the ladder at ANALOG and ASIMOV’S SCIENCE FICTION, under Stanley Schmidt, Sheila Williams, and Gardner Dozois, respectively. On top of that, he’s also been a Broadway stagehand, collected data for museums, and executive produced a science fiction pilot for a basic cable channel. He li ..read more

Rivkah Reyes is a Chicago-bred, LA-buttered actor, writer, producer, and musician. They rose to fame in the 2003 film School of Rock and have been slaying the theatre, film, and comedy world ever since. She starred in the Chicago and Los Angeles productions of Spamilton, the Off-Broadway parody of Hamilton. They hosted a podcast called Where Are We Now?, in which she interviewed fellow former child stars. Rivkah's screenwriting debut, Gianna, also stars Rivkah as both leads and is co-produced by Jack Black. Most recently, they starred in Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls, which pre ..read more

Quentin Lee is the Winner of the 2020 Roddenberry Foundation Impact Awards for TV creators, a member of the Producers Guild of America, Canadian Media Producers Association and Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (Directors and Producers Peer Group), Quentin Lee is a multimedia creator and has directed and produced over ten feature films and three TV series. His first feature Shopping For Fangs premiered at Toronto International Film Festival and became a cult classic as part of the Asian American New Wave Class of 1997. As a creator, he is currently developing Rez Comedy, the first Cana ..read more

Abigail Hing Wen is the New York Times bestselling author of Loveboat, Taipei, which is being adapted for film. She holds a BA from Harvard, a JD from Columbia Law School, and an MFA from the Vermont School of Fine Arts, and, like some of her characters, is obsessed with musicals and dancing. When she’s not writing stories or listening to her favorite scores, she is busy working in artificial intelligence in Silicon Valley, where she lives with her family. You can learn more about her at www.abigailhingwen.com. On The Artsy Raven she shares her writing journe ..read more