Amanda Cessor

Speaker

Amanda Cessor is a genderqueer, pansexual author living in the San Bernardino mountains with their husband and her pets. They have words in Merciless Mermaids: Tails of the Deep, RAGE charity anthology and is best known for their books With Love, Juniper and A Waltz with the Bone King. When she's not writing, she's either doing hair, playing TTRPG's or reading romance novels.

9:00PM - 10:30PM EDT

Friday July 11th

Writing and Plotting with ADHD

Writing and plotting is challenging for everyone, but being a writer with ADHD can compound that challenge by a significant degree. In this panel, writers show how ADHD impacts their writing life, how they stay focused and avoid distractions, as well as speak on misconceptions about ADHD authors.

2:00PM - 3:30PM EDT

Sunday July 13th

Writing Mental Health: When the World Mirrors a Dystopian Novel

Mental health issues can be intrinsically challenging for many of us, but these struggles can be compounded when our immediate environments and the broader world are in turmoil. Our panelists discuss how their individual experiences with mental health are reflected in their work, and how we can cope with similar difficulties in real life and in stories.