About

CoyoteCon is a month-long author conference held in May every year, focusing on writing speculative fiction and improving writing skills.

CoyoteCon is also a year-long community of writers and other interested publishing professionals supporting one another and sharing our news and information.

Those of us who read and write speculative fiction have a passion for seeing beyond the every day or the mundane right in front of us. We dream of alien worlds, peoples, sciences, magic, and miracles.  We imagine ghosts, monsters, and consummate lovers. We’re geeks, outsiders—strangers in a strange land. We have fun playing with possibilities. We are the home of mythic fiction in all its forms.

Our guests are authors, editors, publishers and other industry professionals who love to talk about, and be involved in, the making of books: cross-genre, historical, romance, horror, fantasy, and science fiction, and all the related media they generate.

If there is a place where discussions of  humanity, inclusion, exclusion, diversity, ability, disability, othering, religion, irreligion, feminism, patriarchy, sexuality, colonialism and post-colonial ideas also belong, it is with us. We should always be able to see what’s possible.

Like the new site? We’re excited about the many ways we can keep the howl alive throughout the year. We’ll be discussing CC 2011 here on the site starting this fall, and throughout, we’ll be joining groups to talk about our writing, our kids, our disabilities, and/or anything else we want to talk about.

Be sure to visit the chat room every Wednesday for Word Wars, and the last Sunday of every month at 9PM for the DP room party.

Join the CoyoteCon community! If you have a friend already with us, ask for an invitation; or contact the administrator at coyotecon@gmail.com. If you’re already a member and want to invite others but don’t have any invitation codes, just send Deena a message and she’ll get them to you right away.