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< Back Oghenechovwe Ekpeki Literary Author/Editor Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki is an African speculative fiction writer and editor in Nigeria. He has won the the Otherwise, British Fantasy award, and Nommo award, twice. He has been a finalist in the, Locus, Nommo, Sturgeon and BSFA award, twice. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared and are forthcoming in Tordotcom, Strange Horizons, Galaxy's Edge, Apex, Asimov's and more. He edited Bridging Worlds, the first ever Year's Best African Speculative Fiction anthology, co-edited the groundbreaking Dominion anthology, and the Africa Risen anthology forthcoming on Tordotcom in Nov 2022. You can find him on Twitter. Other Socials https://reactormag.com/first-collection-of-the-years-best-african-speculative-fiction-is-coming-next-month/

< Back Lee Hawkridge Literary, Content Creator, Fan Content Creator A budding streamer, compulsory world-builder, and a occasional author of short stories, Lee has been in the fandom for nearly fifteen years. Other Socials

< Back Give My Regards A Starship Crew with a fondness for Musical Theatre is in danger. A Starship Crew with a fondness for Musical Theatre is in danger. Previous Next

< Back Honorable Mention "Snow Bear" Hand drawn animation. (This film will not be shown in the Film Festival.) https://youtu.be/xOXolSQcEb4 Previous Next

< Back Matt Henderson Gaming Game Master Lead Designer and co-owner of Loke Battle Mats, a company that creates products for tabletop roleplaying games that are best known for the 'Books of battle Mats' range of map books. I've got around four decades of experience playing and running TTRPG games and was able to turn my hobby into my career in the last ten years. Other Socials

< Back Ann Chathamann Art Artist Ann is a writer, crafter, and naturalist who makes things semi-compulsively because her head is full of ideas and it generally seems like a better idea than screaming. Her preferred media include secondary world fantasy, plants, textiles, clay, wood, watercolor, and gel pen, with periodic digressions. She is fond of history, functioning ecosystems, and reclaimed materials, and is happy to take inspiration from whatever odd connections her brain has been making lately. Other Socials

< Back Rigel Ailum Literary Author Rigel Ailur wrote her first novel—all of seven pages!—at the age of seven and hasn't stopped since. Now with twenty-four novels and ninety short stories published, including for Star Trek and Shadowrun, she writes mostly science fiction and fantasy. Her series include: otherworldly adventures and intrigue in Tales of Mimion; Gods and magic in Sorcery & Steel; an intergalactic worldship with the most diverse crew in history in A Little Piece of Home; enigmatic aliens threatening millions of lives in Curai'Nal; and interstellar exiles working together in Escapes. Her non-genre work includes The Vagabonds' Adventures, about two millionaires living in a luxury double-decker RV; the historical Last Abbot of Lin Duachaill; the romance Masquerade; and the hockey novel Breakaway. She's contributed essays to the Outside In series. Most importantly, she dotes on her astronomically adorable feline kids. For more information including a bibliography and cover gallery, visit her website. Other Socials http://BluetrixBooks.com

< Back Leslye Penelope Literary Author Leslye Penelope has been writing since she could hold a pen and loves getting lost in the worlds in her head. Her novel The Monsters We Defy won the 2023 Audie Award for Best Fantasy Audiobook. Her debut novel Song of Blood & Stone was chosen as one of TIME Magazine's 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time. Equally left and right-brained, she studied filmmaking and computer science at Howard University and sometimes dreams in HTML. She hosts the My Imaginary Friends podcast, co-hosts the Ink & Magic podcast, and lives in Maryland with her feline dependents. Visit her at: http://www.lpenelope.com. Other Socials

< List of Vendors French, John L. Dealer's Room John’s first story “Past Sins” was published in Hardboiled Magazine and was cited as one of the best Hardboiled stories of 1993. More crime fiction followed, appearing in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, the Fading Shadows magazines and in collections by Barnes and Noble. Association with writers like James Chambers and the late, great C.J. Henderson led him to try horror fiction and to a still growing fascination with zombies and other undead things. His first horror story “The Right Solution” appeared in Marietta Publishing’s Lin Carter’s Anton Zarnak. Other horror stories followed in anthologies such as THE DEAD WALK and DARK FURIES, both published by Die Monster Die books. It was in Dark Furies that his character Bianca Jones made her literary debut in “21 Doors,” a story based on an old Baltimore legend and a creepy game his daughter used to play with her friends. John is an author of science fiction, pulp, horror, fantasy, and, of course, crime fiction.

< List of Vendors Dealers Wanted Dealer's Room Balticon’s Dealers Room is a curated selection of vendors catering to fandom. We offer space for everything from games and gaming paraphernalia to jewelry, booksellers, authors, and more. While Artist’s Alley focuses on artists and their creations, our Dealers Room is open to creators and resellers alike. We work hard to offer the members of Balticon a variety of selections so we’re careful to curate our vendor applications. This means we try not to have duplicate vendors. Please select the following button to be added to the email list: Balticon Dealers Room Registration We are only accepting vendors related to Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror literature and geek culture to ensure a good fit for our event (Companies not currently being accepted include but are not limited to: travel, home improvement, direct/home sales, etc.). Thank you for your understanding. Half Table (authors only) $100 6’ x 8’ space $190 10’ x 10’ space $330 To register for an Dealers Room table: Fill out the Dealers Room Application Form. After being accepted, you will receive an email with the Dealers Information Packet and a Square invoice. For more information, email dealers@balticon.org . Check out our list of confirmed vendors closer to the con! Read more to learn about becoming a Dealer!

< Back Yakira Heistand Costuming Cosplay Yakira wears a lot of hats, hand-knit of course. Yakira's cosplay career began at age nine when she used the good bedsheets to make herself a Princess Leah costume. When not sewing (or knitting, or spinning, or making soap,) Yakira writes queer romance and military sci-fi. Active in SMOF, Yakira has her hands in more cons than she ought. She also owns more wool, fabric, spinning wheels, and sewing machines than she ought, but that's not really a problem, per se. Other Socials

< Back The Lights Above Months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, a series of unidentified aircraft sightings over Los Angeles lead a determined journalist to reluctantly pair up with a Japanese American photographer to prevent another attack. In 1942, a series of unidentified aircraft sightings over Los Angeles lead a determined journalist to reluctantly pair up with a Japanese American photographer in order to prevent another attack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpybAr3C4lw Previous Next