The Wayward Wormhole – for craft-minded writers

In January 2015, C.C. Finlay became the ninth editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. He is also the author of the Traitor to the Crown historical fantasy trilogy, which began with The Patriot Witch, and a stand-alone fantasy novel, The Prodigal Troll.   He’s published more than forty stories since 2001, many of which have been reprinted in volumes of the Year’s Best Fantasy, Year’s Best Science Fiction, Best New Horror, and other anthologies. Some of his short stories have been finalists for the Hugo, Nebula, Sidewise, and Sturgeon awards, and have been translated into more than a dozen languages.  Fourteen early stories were collected in Wild Things (2005). Previously, he was the administrator for OWW, the Online Writing Workshop for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror, and continues to serve there as a resident editor.  He has also been an instructor at the Clarion Workshop, the Clarion Young Authors workshop, the Alpha Writers Workshop, and the Odyssey Online Workshop. In 2003, Finlay founded the Blue Heaven workshop, a professional peer review retreat for genre novelists. In 2005, Finlay served on the jury for the Phillip K. Dick Award and co-chaired the jury for the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy.

Donald Maass (New York, NY) heads the Donald Maass Literary Agency in New York City, which represents more than 150 novelists and sells more than 150 novels every year to publishers in America and overseas. He is a past president of the Association of Authors Representatives, Inc., and is the author of several books including “The Breakout Novelist” and “The Emotional Craft of Writing.”

Cat Rambo is an American science fiction and fantasy writer and editor with over 300 original fiction publications. Rambo was co-editor of Fantasy Magazine from 2007 to 2011, which earned them a 2012 World Fantasy Special Award: Non-Professional nomination. Their short stories have appeared in such places as Asimov’s, Clarkesworld Magazine, and Tor.com. In 2012, their story “Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain” was a Nebula Award finalist, and in 2019 won the Nebula for Best Novella, “Carpe Glitter.” Their 2023 publications are space opera Devil’s Gun. 2024 releases include Rumor Has It, the 3^rd in the space opera series, and fantasy novel Gods of Tabat, the 4th book of The Tabat Quartet.

They are a graduate of the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and Clarion West, where they studied with Octavia E. Butler, Andy Duncan, L. Timmel DuChamp, Connie Willis, Gordon Van Gelder, and Michael Swanwick. Find more about Cat and the Rambo Academy for Wayward Writers at catrambo.com.