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ACCSFF
Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy
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The Academic Conference on Canadian
Science Fiction and Fantasy is a quasi-annual conference featuring
academic papers, guest speakers, and panel discussions on all
aspects of the field. The conference has been in existence
in one form or another since 1995, and has hosted speakers ranging
from Guy Gavriel Kay to Margaret Atwood.
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ACCSFF '26
York University May 30-31, 2026 |
Keynote Address Speakers
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Premee Mohamed
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Michael Meniane
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Robert Knowlton
Photo: Dick Winters
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Premee Mohamed is a Nebula, World Fantasy, Ignyte, Locus, and Aurora award-winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. She has also been a finalist for the Hugo, British Fantasy, British Science Fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Crawford awards. In 2024, she was the Edmonton Public Library writer-in-residence, and she has taught at establishments including the Banff Institute for the Arts, the Clarion Workshop, and the Carl Brandon Society. She has judged short fiction contests for CBC and Alberta Views Magazine and can be found on her website at www.premeemohamed.com. She is represented by Michael Curry of DMLA. |
Robert Knowlton is an independent scholar and Canada’s leading authority on dark fantasy and horror fiction. He has published articles in The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, Out of This World: Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy, and Tesseracts 13. During the 1980s, he edited the small-press SF magazine Borderland. He was a judge for the World Fantasy Awards in 1988 and the Sunburst Awards in 2014. He has been a consultant and book appraiser for L.W. Currey, Inc., McMaster University, the Northern Frights anthology series, and the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation and Fantasy, and worked for twenty-five years in the antiquarian book trade. In addition, he was on the organizing committees of numerous SF conventions. |