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ANNOUNCEMENT: Sirens at Home will take place online—for free—October 22-25, 2020. While we’ve postponed our “villains” year (featuring Kinitra Brooks, Rin Chupeco, Sarah Gailey, Joamette Gil and Fonda Lee) to 2021, we didn’t want to let 2020 pass without gathering. #SirensAtHome
Everyone is welcome to attend Sirens at Home, whether you’ve attended Sirens before or not, as long as you’ll be at least 18 years old on October 22. And if you have an interest in the work of women, nonbinary and trans folks in speculative spaces, we hope you will! #SirensAtHome
While Sirens at Home will be a free, online program, we’ll include a number of the usual Sirens elements: brilliant presenters, in-depth book discussions, and all sorts of conversations with readers, writers, scholars, librarians, educators, and publishing pros. #SirensAtHome
Sirens at Home will have two components: (1) essays, book recommendations, and other fabulous content that we’ll publish on our blog (and link to on Twitter); and (2) online content that often gives you the chance to interact with folks. #SirensAtHome
You must register for Sirens at Home. Our program is free, but we’ll be using Zoom. To help protect our spaces and our communities, we will be emailing the program links to registrants rather than posting them publicly. #SirensAtHome
Registration link: https://systems.sirensconference.org/2020/at-home
Registration link: https://systems.sirensconference.org/2020/at-home
Here’s all of our information about Sirens at Home, including the full schedule: https://www.sirensconference.org/at-home/ . But here in this thread, too, are the main components of that schedule. #SirensAtHome
Thursday, October 22, 6:30 pm MT/8:30 pm ET
Panel
We have fought so hard to claim even the smallest part of traditionally cisgender male spaces. But what about work that we’re doing that contemplates wholly new spaces? Discussion groups will follow the panel. #SirensAtHome
Panel
We have fought so hard to claim even the smallest part of traditionally cisgender male spaces. But what about work that we’re doing that contemplates wholly new spaces? Discussion groups will follow the panel. #SirensAtHome
Friday, October 23
Book Recommendations
Keep an eye out for recommendation lists of books by women, nonbinary, and trans authors that exemplify the first 12 years of Sirens themes. Monsters, rebels, heroes, and more are coming your way here: https://www.sirensconference.org/news/ #SirensAtHome
Book Recommendations
Keep an eye out for recommendation lists of books by women, nonbinary, and trans authors that exemplify the first 12 years of Sirens themes. Monsters, rebels, heroes, and more are coming your way here: https://www.sirensconference.org/news/ #SirensAtHome
Friday, October 23, 6:30 pm MT/8:30 pm ET
Panel
We always attempt the impossible, even in this year of politics, protests and pandemic. And despite everything we are told that that’s somehow not enough—and we’re not enough. Discussion groups will follow the panel. #SirensAtHome
Panel
We always attempt the impossible, even in this year of politics, protests and pandemic. And despite everything we are told that that’s somehow not enough—and we’re not enough. Discussion groups will follow the panel. #SirensAtHome
Saturday, October 24, all day
Essays
Over the past couple years, Sirens has published spectacular essays focused on speculative literature. We’ll be featuring those essays, along with, in many cases, videos of the authors reading them, here: https://www.sirensconference.org/news/ #SirensAtHome
Essays
Over the past couple years, Sirens has published spectacular essays focused on speculative literature. We’ll be featuring those essays, along with, in many cases, videos of the authors reading them, here: https://www.sirensconference.org/news/ #SirensAtHome
Saturday, October 24, 9 am MT/11 am ET
Book Discussion
Books and Breakfast lives! Read one of these fantastic books, grab your breakfast, and come on down to discuss one of speculative fiction’s newest works! #SirensAtHome
Book Discussion
Books and Breakfast lives! Read one of these fantastic books, grab your breakfast, and come on down to discuss one of speculative fiction’s newest works! #SirensAtHome
Saturday, October 24
Community Gatherings
We invite those in the BIPOC, LGBTQIAP+, and disabled and neurodivergent communities to join us for our safer spaces gatherings.
10 am MT: BIPOC
11 am MT: LGBTQIAP+
Noon MT: Disabled and neurodivergent
#SirensAtHome
Community Gatherings
We invite those in the BIPOC, LGBTQIAP+, and disabled and neurodivergent communities to join us for our safer spaces gatherings.
10 am MT: BIPOC
11 am MT: LGBTQIAP+
Noon MT: Disabled and neurodivergent
#SirensAtHome
Saturday, October 24
Professional Networking
For professionals, it’s not always easy to find your speculative-fiction loving peers. Let us help!
2 pm MT: Publishing pros, booksellers, librarians
3 pm MT: Scholars, educators, librarians
#SirensAtHome
Professional Networking
For professionals, it’s not always easy to find your speculative-fiction loving peers. Let us help!
2 pm MT: Publishing pros, booksellers, librarians
3 pm MT: Scholars, educators, librarians
#SirensAtHome
Saturday, October 24, 4 pm MT/6 pm ET
Book Recommendations
Bring your tea, maybe some popcorn, and definitely your TBR list. Faye Bi and Amy Tenbrink, some of Sirens’s best-read staff, are going to tell you what’s new, what’s amazing, and what you simply must read. #SirensAtHome
Book Recommendations
Bring your tea, maybe some popcorn, and definitely your TBR list. Faye Bi and Amy Tenbrink, some of Sirens’s best-read staff, are going to tell you what’s new, what’s amazing, and what you simply must read. #SirensAtHome
Saturday, October 24, 7 pm MT/9 pm ET
Don your costume (or a ballgown or your comfiest pjs), grab that sword or war hammer that we never let you bring to Sirens, maybe stir up a cocktail, and join us for the Sirens Ball! We’ll have chair-dancing, games, and more! #SirensAtHome
Don your costume (or a ballgown or your comfiest pjs), grab that sword or war hammer that we never let you bring to Sirens, maybe stir up a cocktail, and join us for the Sirens Ball! We’ll have chair-dancing, games, and more! #SirensAtHome
Sunday, October 25, 9 am ET/CT/MT/PT
If you’ve loved Sirens at Home, here’s a chance to meet other folks near-ish to you! Join us at 9 am in your time zone (or the one closest to you, if you live elsewhere) for some regional community and conversations. #SirensAtHome
If you’ve loved Sirens at Home, here’s a chance to meet other folks near-ish to you! Join us at 9 am in your time zone (or the one closest to you, if you live elsewhere) for some regional community and conversations. #SirensAtHome
Sunday, October 25, morning MT
Of course there’s a new reading challenge for #Sirens21! You have until October 1 to finish up this year’s—and then on October 25, we’ll drop the new one. Clear those TBR piles because this challenge is something special. #SirensAtHome
Of course there’s a new reading challenge for #Sirens21! You have until October 1 to finish up this year’s—and then on October 25, we’ll drop the new one. Clear those TBR piles because this challenge is something special. #SirensAtHome
Sunday, October 25, 11 am MT/1 pm ET
Before we say goodbye for now, let’s have one last gathering, this one for anyone might want to come to #Sirens21! And if you registered by Sept 1, 2020, bring that paper-wrapped gift we sent; we’ll open them together. #SirensAtHome
Before we say goodbye for now, let’s have one last gathering, this one for anyone might want to come to #Sirens21! And if you registered by Sept 1, 2020, bring that paper-wrapped gift we sent; we’ll open them together. #SirensAtHome
