Today the OTW turns 8 years old. The organization and its projects have accomplished a great deal during this time, all of which has been made possible with the donations of our supporters and the many hours of work from our thousands of volunteers over the years.
This month we’ll see another milestone: Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC) will be releasing its 20th issue. We hope that its readers, contributors, and our many visitors will take the time to help us celebrate!
- On September 13th, we’ll be posting a feature on TWC’s Symposium section
- On September 15th Issue 20 will be released
- On September 17th we’ll be posting some reflections from contributors to TWC
We’ll be wrapping up on September 19th, when we’ll host a live chat with four contributors to TWC who have been involved with the publication from its early days. Edited to add: The transcript is now available
- Lucy Busker is a writing professor at Parkland College in Illinois, USA. She was the founder and site maintainer of the original Fanfic Symposium, and the owner of the Fanfiction Critic’s Association mailing list. Her recent interests include gender in children’s media, including a strange fascination with her daughter’s Barbie movies.
- Cathy Cupitt has been an active member of fandom since the late 1980s, first writing fanfiction for Lotrips. She’s been a writer, reccer and vidder in Stargate: Atlantis, Torchwood, Supernatural and Teen Wolf, among others. She has a Doctorate in Creative Arts, and is currently a Research Fellow for the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education at Curtin University in Perth, Australia.
- Amanda Odom has served as an instructor at several institutions, including the University of South Alabama, the United States Sports Academy, and Front Range Community College. She has also worked as an editor. She loves finding connections between the characters in comics, video games, books, and movies and the people who write and read them.
- Dana Sterling has published a romance novel under a nom de plume, and teaches writing at Oklahoma State University’s Institute of Technology in Okmulgee, Oklahoma. She studied journalism, and previously spent 20 years as a reporter, editor and broadcaster. She has been a fan of comics, Star Wars, Stargate, and The Lord of the Rings among others.
The chat will be held in the OTW’s Public Discussion Chatroom on September 19th from 14:00-16:00 UTC (what time is that in my timezone?)
We hope you’ll join us! And if you have any questions about the event, leave them here.