Event Schedule
Registration Tables Open at 8:00am.
Lavender Con 2024 will be broken up into morning and afternoon sessions on both Saturday and Sunday. Doors open for the morning session for VIP Ticket holders at 9:00am and 9:30am for single day ticket holders. The morning session concludes at 1:00pm. The afternoon session runs from 2:00pm to 6:00pm for all ticket holders.
Terry Bartley - Andie Burke - Suzie Clark
Neil Cochrane - Arden Coutts - Suzie Dumond
ML Eaden - Will Freshwater - Craig Laurance Gidney
Caylan MacRae - Jo Miles - Morgan Lee Miller
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Erasing Bi-Erasure: The Importance of Quality Bi and Pan Representation
Aaron Aceves - Diane Billas - Sierra Isley
Conference Rooms
Finding the Queer Voice: Writing for Young Readers
William Grant - Charles Bush - Dale Walls
First Amendment Lounge
Writing History for Middle Grade and Young Adult Readers
Katherine Locke - Barbara Perez Marquez - Sarah Prager
Fourth Estate
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Breaking the Mold on Achillean Coming of Age Stories
Aaron Hamburger - Jeffrey Dale Lofton - Rasheed Newson - Santiago Sanchez
Room: Conference Rooms
The Importance of Queer Love Stories for Young Readers
Brian Kennedy - Jenna Miller - Tobias Madden
Room: First Amendment Lounge
A Touch of Speculation: Magical Realism and Near Science
Emet North - Marc Renson - Addie Tsai
Room: Fourth Estate
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Saturday Afternoon Session
Signing Authors
Aaron Aceves - Ethan Aldridge - Terry Benton-Walker
Diane Billas - Andre Bradley - Ciera Burch
Charles Bush - Felice Cohen - William Dameron
Federico Erebia - Bree Fram - Ryan Gebhart
Elyssa Maxx Goodman - Willaim Grant - Aaron Hamburger
Sierra Isley - Tony Keith Jr. - Brian Kennedy
Katherine Locke - Jeffrey Dale Lofton - Tobias Madden
Mo Melo - Jenna Miller - Richard Mirabella
Rasheed Newson - Emet North - Barbara Perez Marquez
Sarah Prager - Marc Renson - Santiago Sanchez
Michael Solis - Esme Symes-Smith - Lauren R. Taylor
Addie Tsai - Dale Walls
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Author Panels
2:30pm - 3:30pm
The Sapphics Do It Best: Sapphic Romance Part 1
Susie Dumond - Natalie Naudus - Tagan Shephard
Room: Conference Rooms
Across Time and Space: Queering Science Fiction
Jo Miles - Nathan Tavares - Michael Underwood
Room: Fourth Estate
No Terfs Here:
Trans and Nonbinary Writers on the Possibilities of Speculative Fiction
Neil Cochrane - Olive Kelly - Kit Vincent
Room: First Amendment Lounge
4:00pm - 5:00pm
I Like My Fantasy Dark
Jen Karner - Andromeda Ruins - Sirius
Room: Fourth Estate
The Devil is in the Details: Building Fantastic Worlds
Terry Bartley - David Slayton - Brent Lambert - Lou Wilham
Room: First Amendment Lounge
Add A Little Bit of Spice to the Romance
Meka James - Timothy Janovski - Karmen Lee
Room: Conference Rooms
Aaron Aceves - Ethan Aldridge - Terry Benton-Walker
Diane Billas - Andre Bradley - Ciera Burch
Charles Bush - Felice Cohen - William Dameron
Federico Erebia - Bree Fram - Ryan Gebhart
Elyssa Maxx Goodman - Willaim Grant - Aaron Hamburger
Sierra Isley - Tony Keith Jr. - Brian Kennedy
Katherine Locke - Jeffrey Dale Lofton - Tobias Madden
Mo Melo - Jenna Miller - Richard Mirabella
Rasheed Newson - Emet North - Barbara Perez Marquez
Sarah Prager - Marc Renson - Santiago Sanchez
Michael Solis - Esme Symes-Smith - Lauren R. Taylor
Addie Tsai - Dale Walls
Author Panels
10:30am - 11:30am
I’ll Take Two Genres Please: Romantasy
ML Eaden - Ian Haramaki - Adriana Sargent
Room: Conference Rooms
Keeping The Romance Thrilling
Arden Coutts - Suzie Clark - AE Wasp
Room: First Amendment Lounge
Keeping It Fresh: Writing Unique Romance in a Crowded Genre
Moderator: Susie Dumond
Will Freshwater - Frederick Smith - Riley Long
Room: Fourth Estate
12:00pm - 1:00pm
The Journey of Indie Publishing and Finding Success
Sarah Robinson - Dallas Smith - SE Smyth
Room: Fourth Estate
Horror Queers
Moderator: Michela Roberts, Bookseller
Craig Laurance Gidney - Tony Santorella - Chloe Spencer
Room: First Amendment Lounge
The Sapphics Do It Best: Sapphic Romance Part 2
Andie Burke - Morgan Lee Miller - Anne Shade
Room: Conference Rooms
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Neil Cochrane - Arden Coutts - Suzie Dumond
ML Eaden - Will Freshwater - Craig Laurance Gidney
Lou Wilham
Author Panels
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Young Readers, Big Stories:
An Exploration of Middle Grade and Young Adult Fantasy
Ethan Aldridge - Terry Benton-Walker - Andre Bradley - Esme Symes-Smith
Room: Conference Rooms
Sharing Your Truth - The Power of Real Queer Stories
Felice Cohen - Tony Keith Jr. - Mo Melo
Room: Fourth Estate
How Queerness Helps us Thrive
Bree Fram - Lauren R. Taylor - Elyssa Maxx Goodman
First Amendment Lounge
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Setting the Scene: Crafting an Immersive World for Readers, YA Edition
Ciera Burch - Ryan Gebhart - Michael Solis
Room: First Amendment Lounge
Queering Family Trees - An Exploration of Queer Families in Fiction
William Dameron - Federico Erebia - Richard Mirabella
Room: Conference Rooms