WonderCon 2023: Full Schedule

4:30pm PDT

Here, Now, There, Then: When Fact Meets Fiction

WonderCon special guests Annalee Newitz (The Terraformers) and Gary Phillips (One-Shot Harry), along with Jose Pimienta (Twin Cities), and Dan Santat (A First Time for Everything), share their experiences, tips, and tricks for setting the perfect stage to tell their stories, whether set in a nonfictional now or a fictional future. Moderated by Dr. Jeanelle Horcasitas (educator, technical writer, and speculative futurist).

Speakers

Annalee Newitz

WonderCon Special Guest

Annalee Newitz is an American journalist, editor, and author of fiction and nonfiction. They are the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship from MIT and have written for Popular Science, The New Yorker, and the Washington Post. They founded the science fiction website... Read More →

Gary Phillips

WonderCon Special Guest

Gary Phillips has published several novels and short stories and written comics for the likes of DC, BOOM! Dark Horse, and Moonstone, where he penned new adventures of Kolchak, the Night Stalker and pulp favorite The Spider. He’s been a staff writer on Snowfall, a show streaming... Read More →

Friday March 24, 2023 4:30pm - 5:30pm PDT
Room 208

1: Programs, WonderCon Special Guest Spotlights & Appearances, Mysteries & Crime Dramas, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Writers & Writing

11:00am PDT

Rhapsody PR's 15th Annual Behind-the-Music Panel: Ultrasonic

Music creatives join together to give you a behind-the-scenes look at what goes into creating the scores and sounds to some of today's most popular TV series and films. Featuring panelists Jeff Russo (Star Trek: Picard), Amanda Krieg Thomas (American Horror Story), Joseph Shirley (The Mandalorian), Joanne Higginbottom (Primal), Will Bates (Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches), and Gavin Brivik (How to Blow Up a Pipeline). Surprise moderator TBA.

Saturday March 25, 2023 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Room 207

1: Programs, Animation, Comics, Horror and Suspense, Movies, Music, Mysteries & Crime Dramas, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Superheroes, Television

1:00pm PDT

Diversity in Films and Award Shows

Jessica Tseang (The History Channel/ pop culture historian) discusses with Daniel Mah (fight choreographer for multi-award-winning Everything Everywhere All at Once), Sam Khushal (award-winning writer Red Navel, 24-hour Film Festival, cultural consultant), Sandro Morales-Santoro (Restaurants At The Edge Of The World on National Geographic/Disney+; Kold x Windy, WeTV/AllBLK; The Secret History of Venom, Marvel Animation), and Boise Esquerra (Native American-Hopi, screenwriter The Black Demon; writer/director, Blackwater; screenwriter Skinwalker) discuss the growth of diverse representation in films and their future at award shows.

Saturday March 25, 2023 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
Room 300E

1: Programs, Action/Adventure, Animation, BIPOC, Fandom, Movies, Music, Mysteries & Crime Dramas, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Superheroes, Television

3:00pm PDT

Welcome to . . . : The City as Context

Explore the city settings—including locations in our reality, those crafted entirely from the creator's imagination, and those somewhere in between—of works by Tananarive Due (The Wishing Pool and Other Stories), Steven Barnes & Marco Finnegan (The Keeper), WonderCon special guest Gary Phillips (One-Shot Harry, South Central Noir), Dan Santat (A First Time for Everything), and WonderCon special guest Greg van Eekhout (Fenris & Mott), guided by Maryelizabeth Yturralde (Creating Conversations).

Speakers

Gary Phillips

WonderCon Special Guest

Greg van Eekhout

WonderCon Special Guest

Greg van Eekhout is the author of four fantasy novels for adults and six fantasy and science fiction novels for middle-grade readers, as well as dozens of short stories. His novel Weird Kid won the California Independent Booksellers Alliance's Golden Poppy Award. Others of his works... Read More →

Saturday March 25, 2023 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Room 209

1: Programs, WonderCon Special Guest Spotlights & Appearances, Books, Comics, Horror and Suspense, Kids, Mysteries & Crime Dramas, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Writers & Writing

6:00pm PDT

The Writers Workshop by C2C Inc

Do you have an idea for a script? How about that book you wanted to write? Do you have it all written down but don’t know what to do with it? You are not alone. Content creation, publication, and marketing can be daunting. CEO April Wahlin (author, Pandora Syndrome; actor, winner of Search for the Next Elvira) hosts David Yarovesky (director and creator, Brightburn, Nightbooks), Jessica Maison (author and comics publisher, Wicked Tree Press, Plastic Girl Trilogy, Mary Shelley’s School for Monsters), Tessa McFionn (novelist, A Curse of Forever, A Divine's Retribution), Heath Harper (actor, Princess Lucinda; editor, Pandora Syndrome), and The Boxleitner Brothers Lee Boxleitner and Sam Boxleitner (screenwriters, Downstairs, Rupert).

Saturday March 25, 2023 6:00pm - 7:00pm PDT
Room 210

1: Programs, Workshop, Action/Adventure, Books, Comics, Education, Horror and Suspense, Humor & Satire, Movies, Mysteries & Crime Dramas, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Seminars & Workshops, Superheroes, Television, Writers & Writing

12:30pm PDT

The Psychology and Celebration of Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

The hosts of The Arkham Sessions celebrate the 30th anniversary of the beloved animated film Batman: Mask of the Phantasm. Podcast hosts Brian Ward and Dr. Drea Letamendi (Fandom) will treat the audience to a conversation with the film's co-director, Eric Radomski (Batman: The Animated Series), as well as with Londyn Jackson (History of the Batman) and Ashley Victoria Robinson (Geek History Lesson) as they "unmask," explore, and pay tribute to the storytelling of Batman, the Joker, and of course, the Phantasm!

Sunday March 26, 2023 12:30pm - 1:30pm PDT
Room 300C

1: Programs, Animation, Anniversaries, Comics, Education, Fandom, Movies, Mysteries & Crime Dramas, Podcasts, Superheroes, Technology - Science - STEM, Television, Tributes, Writers & Writing