Tiffany Vega is a multi-genre author and a co-owner of Outsider Publishing Company. Her passions are reading, writing, and crafting—which she always brings in to her books. She is a mother of three men and three fur babies.
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Victims and Villains is a Richmond-based multimedia non-profit that creates content to discuss mental health through pop culture.
Nate Walton is a writer, he puts words together in sometimes interesting ways, usually they are about horror or pop culture or other things people like. Sometimes they are good. You can check out his short story collection 3 Sisters Fight A Ghost, or find his work in the anthologies published by Outsider Publishing Company where he is a co-owner. He is working on multiple things including The Scars Call Me By Name, The Constant Quill or his semi-regular blog series The Made That Made Me.
Cos-Slayers is a Virginia-based cosplay group. They organize and participate in state-wide cosplay events such as conventions, competitions, and photoshoots. Their goal is to foster a welcoming community for anyone who wants to bring their favorite characters to life.
Hannah “Spoon” Wilson is a professional illustrator and artist whose work ranges from book covers and inset illustrations, to fine art and paintings, to biological illustration. They frequently explore elaborate depictions of the natural world, mixed with witchy, nerdy, and fantastical elements. Their work is crafted in a variety of media, but ink, watercolor, and digital are their favorites.
Recent publications of their work include inset illustrations in Lesbians in Space 2: The Sapphics Strike Back— an anthology by Space Wizard publishing, the covers for the brand new Gen X romance series by Samantha Bryant—Not Too Late, Acid Reign, and Ready or Not, and the inset illustrations for the upcoming reprint of When the Television Decides to Murder your Girlfriend by Martin Shannon.
When they aren’t drawing, you can typically find them making and dressing up in custom cosplays! Other hobbies of theirs include reading while curled up with their cat, weaving, hiking, and traveling with their husband and dog.
You can see their work on most social media sites under @spoonwooddraws, on their website at spoonwoodvisuals.com, or come by their booth in the Artist Alley to say hello!
Lisa Yaszek is Regents’ Professor of Science Fiction Studies at Georgia Tech, where she explores science fiction as a global language crossing centuries, continents, and cultures. Her recent award-winning books include Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction (2016); Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century (2021); and her The Future is Female! Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women series (2018-present). Dr. Yaszek’s ideas about science fiction as a window into culture have been featured in venues including Time Magazine, The Washington Post, and Space.com, and she has been an expert commentator for CBS Sunday Morning, the BBC4, Turner Classic Movies, and the AMC miniseries James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction. A founding member of the Eugie Award for Short Speculative Fiction, in 2024 Dr. Yaszek received the Science Fiction Research Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award for her contributions to the study of science, technology, and science fiction across media.
David Brin is a scientist, tech speaker/consultant, and above all a proud sci fi author. His novels about our survival and opportunities in the near future include Earth and Existence. A film by Kevin Costner was based on The Postman. His 16 novels, including NY Times Bestsellers and Hugo Award winners, have been translated into more than twenty languages. Earth foreshadowed global warming, cyberwarfare, and the world wide web.
David has lately been “paying forward” by mentoring new or rising authors through his two series of Young Adult science fiction novels*.
Speaking and advising about how science, technology and evolving values will affect our onrushing future, David has keynoted for IBM, Google, Procter & Gamble, SAP, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Price-Waterhouse, the Mauldin Group and Casey Research, all the way to think-tanks, Homeland Security and the CIA.
A Caltech Distinguished alumnus, Brin spent a decade advising NASA’s Innovative & Advanced Concepts program (NIAC). He appears frequently on shows such as Nova and The Universe and Life After People. His first non-fiction book—The Transparent Society—won the Freedom of Speech Award. His second nonfiction book is Vivid Tomorrows: Science Fiction and Hollywood (2021). His third—about Artificial Intelligence—is nearing completion.
See more at: DavidBrin.com
*The Out of Time (or Yanked!) series: Only teens can teleport through time and space! Dollops of fun, adventure & optimism for young adults. AND
The High Horizon series: aliens kidnap a California high school!
K.B. Wagers has a bachelor’s degree in Russian Studies and their non-fiction writing has earned them an Air Force Space Command media contest award for best guest writer. A native of Colorado, they currently live in the north of the state with plenty of access to hiking trails. They are a firm believer in the importance of rest and have given several talks on burnout and the deluge of toxic productivity especially in the publishing industry.
K.B. has an avid interest in martial arts and non-violence, seeing these two things as flip sides of the same coin rather than paradoxical ideas. They enjoy whiskey and coffee in unequal measure, would gladly live in the post-apocalyptic wasteland of Horizon Zero Dawn (until they were likely felled by a machine). During the hockey season you can find them buried under an Avalanche and the rest of the year they defend the managed democracy of Super Earth with the other Helldivers.
K.B. is the author of the NeoG Adventures from Harper Voyager and the Indranan and Farian War trilogies from Orbit Books. They are a fan of whiskey and cats, Jupiter Ascending, and the Muppets.
Ruth Sanderson’s career as a professional illustrator spans over 45 years. In recent years she’s been illustrating fantasy and horror for the limited-edition company Centipede Press, including covers for Bram Stoker’s Powers of Darkness and Alligator by Shelley Katz, as well as covers and interiors for The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons and Things Seen and Unseen, a short story collection by Terry Lamsley.
Ruth was a guest at Comic-Con in San Diego and received the Inkpot Award there. Her scratchboard art has garnered two Chesley Awards. Ruth has also illustrated over 90 books for children, including many award-winning fairy tale picture books. In 2015, the Norman Rockwell Museum mounted a solo exhibition of her fairy tale illustration, and all the artwork from her book The Twelve Dancing Princesses is now in the museum’s permanent collection. She has exhibited at many Worldcons and World Fantasy cons and has been artist GOH at numerous conventions. Among Ruth’s current projects is her first novel, The Mirror of Truth, a YA retelling of Snow White and The Seven Dwarves.
RavenCon is proud to be part of the Ultimate Blanket Fort Competition tour. The winner of the competition will get invited to the National Championships in 2027, hosted at ConVivial in Williamsburg, VA. Additional prizes are awarded for first, second, and third place.
Contestants have 45 minutes to construct the coolest blanket fort they can imagine. It is solely BYOB—Bring Your Own Blanket, but you can bring all the sheets, pillows, blankets, Lincoln logs, fairy lights, stuffed animals, or really anything you want to bring to help you construct the coolest fort. Points for originality, lighting, design, and theme. There is no age restriction! Adults and children are encourged to apply! Bribery of the judges is allowed (and encouraged), but you do have to follow the rules.
Want in on the fun? We know you do! A limited number of spots are available, but you can still enter right HERE.
