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Panelists: Gabino Iglesias and Ann Dávila Cardinal
Moderator: Sheri-Marie Harrison
Not all monsters are creatures that go bump in the night. Some horrors are everyday, and the most frightening tales often follow monstrous human behavior. This panel brings together writers of thrilling fiction to discuss the ways scary stories reflect truths about the horrors constructed by society and the monsters we make.
17 Jul 2024
Unbound 2023: On a Cyborg Society
Panelists: Alexander Weinstein, Akil Kumarasamy, Andrew Yoon
Moderator: John Joseph Adams
Ours is an era in which artificial intelligence is the hidden engine behind so much of society and culture, and is even making inroads into art. Depictions of AI in literature therefore have a relevance like never before. The authors on this panel are known for their thoughtful literary engagement with the increasing presence of AI in our world and its influence on, and implications for, human existence.
15 Mar 2024
Unbound 2023: Ready Player One
Panelists: BJ Best, Andrew Ervin, Brittney Morris
Moderators: Whitney Terrell, V.V. Ganeshananthan
Life relies on play. Kittens learn to hunt by pouncing on siblings, springboks practice leaping away from predators, and great apes form bonds through bouts of tag. Video games are the latest installation of gameplay to humans. The writers on this panel have wrestled with the human desire to play games and attempt to answer: Is life one big multiplayer RPG? This conversation will be recorded as a Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast.
6 Mar 2024
Unbound 2023: (Re)Writing Kansas City
Panelists: Desideria Mesa, José Faus, CJ Janovy
Moderator: Whitney Terrell
How is Kansas City portrayed in literature? Four KC-based writers discuss the city’s long literary legacy and its future. The city has experienced unprecedented growth in its writing and artistic communities over the past twenty years. Has the “traditional” literary take on the city changed? How welcome are authors from diverse communities? What issues will Kansas City authors be tackling in the next twenty years?
28 Feb 2024
Unbound 2023: The Revolution Will Not Be Westernized
Panelists: Phong Nguyen, Jocelyn Cullity, Vanessa Riley
Moderator: Trudy Lewis
We often act as though the West invented the idea of the powerful woman. Yet women have succeeded as political and military leaders throughout the world, often in times of revolution and transition. These three writers of historical fiction have researched and written novels about three such historical moments in which powerful women leaders emerged and fought and reigned.
23 Feb 2024
Unbound 2023: Something Witchy This Way Comes
Panelists: Megan Kaminiski (megan-kaminski), Megan Giddings (megan-giddings), Sun Yung Shin (sun-yung-shin), Desideria Mesa
Moderator: Tina Casagrand Foss
Where do we find hope, community, and belonging in the face of a divided and distant society? If only there were some magic to see things differently. These writers’ latest books use witchcraft, divination, and the power of nature to turn our everyday world on its head and fight against oppressive power structures.
23 Feb 2024
Unbound 2023: After Dobbs Panel
Panelists: Angela Hume (angela-hume1), Jennifer Haigh (jennifer-haigh), Natalie Y. Moore
Moderator: Molly Housch Gordon
In the aftermath of the Dobbs decision, Margaret Atwood wrote “I thought I was writing fiction in The Handmaid’s Tale.” A theocratic United States where women were treated as if they were “in 17th century New England” seemed to her, in 1985, to be “far-fetched” and “silly.” Yet Gilead is slowly becoming an American reality. How do writers fight back against the patriarchy that strives to silence them? These three writers take up the theme of reproductive rights and discuss literary challenges to America’s slide toward Gilead.
23 Feb 2024
Unbound 2023: Paper Jam Panel
Panelists: Calvin Kasulke (calvin-kasulke), Akil Kumarasamy (akil-kumarasamy), YZ Chin (yz-chin)
Moderator: Donald Quist
Once upon a time, networks were made of connected people. Now, the most relevant networks are digital. As technology advances and invades our workplaces, we’re faced with a cloud of innovations that change the shape and nature of our work lives. These three writers trace the wires of influence in our workplace.
22 Dec 2020
Christopher Castellani & Jocelyn Cullity (2019)
In their most recent novels, Christopher Castellani and Jocelyn Cullity base their stories on actual people (Tennesse Williams in Castellani's Leading Men) or events (the 1857 siege of Lucknow in Cullity's Amah and the Silk-Winges Pigeons.) How did they merge fact and fiction? What are the responsibilities of a storyteller to stick to the facts, if the truth that they're looking for lies elsewhere?
4 Dec 2020
Writing the Rural
The writing and writers of rural America are as rich and varied as those of any American landscape. These three writers give voice to real and imagined lives that resonate from the holler to the rolling hills, from splendid isolation to cacophonous interference; from margin to center.
Panelists: Kayleb Rae Candrilli, Garrard Conley, Crystal Wilkinson
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