Flights of Foundry is an awesome, free* virtual convention held every year, and it’s coming up soon! From September 26-28th, there will be over 250 panels and presentations running pretty much nonstop.

This year, I’ll mostly be moderating a lot of cool stuff. You can also grab a ticket for my chill-n-chat, which has limited seating.

My schedule is on the Events page for reference, but here’s a more thorough look at what I’ll be up to, with descriptions:

September 26, 2025

• 2pm ET: The Added Depth of Speculative World Building. A panel discussion on the skill and purpose behind speculative world building to add depth to character and theme, including why the speculative is uniquely suited to this as well as examples from publications.
• 6pm ET: The Medium is the Messenger: Novel Characters versus Characters for Games. A panel discussion on the skill and purpose behind speculative world building to add depth to character and theme, including why the speculative is uniquely suited to this as well as examples from publications.
• 11pm ET: How to Submit Short Fiction. You wrote/translated a thing! Now you’re looking for places to submit and there are so many magazines and anthologies. Panelists share tools and tips (and some appropriate cautions) from the trenches.

September 27, 2025

• 2pm ET: Part of This World: Setting Your Story in Real World Locations. A panel discussion on what to include, exclude, change, and keep when writing stories set in real world locations with tips on how to research and examples from published stories.
• 6pm ET: Romance in Games. What’s hot, what’s horny, and what’s tender and touching. Join our panelists for recommendations, discussion, shipping, and sipping all the tea about love, affection, attraction, and all things romance in games.
• 8pm ET: We All Win Together: Cooperative Board Games. Not every game has to be competitive! Panelists discuss the joys of cooperative board games: what kinds are out there, which ones they love, and why it can be so much more fun to win together.

September 28, 2025

• 12pm ET: Play Again to Find Out: Storytelling Through Iteration. While many games have a clear, mostly-linear plot, others instead have a story, world and characters that emerge only by replaying them over and over. Whether in a roguelike game (Hades), or an exploration/builder/puzzler (Blue Prince), or a logic mystery (Return of the Obra Dinn), we’ll discuss how video games can tell stories through iterative gameplay.
• 5pm ET: Chill-n-Chat. A casual conversation covering any topic the attendees are interested in.
• 7pm ET: Kaia Ball’s Contest Winner Showcase. Join us for 2024 contest winner Kaia Ball giving a reading and being interviewed by judge Valerie Valdes.

If anything changes, I’ll update the Events page accordingly. Whether you come to these panels or any of the many others, I hope you’re able to hop on some flights and have a great time!

*Flights of Foundry is hosted by Dream Foundry, a registered 501(c)3 non-profit that relies on donations to run the convention, Con or Bust, and contests for emerging writers and artists. You can absolutely attend the con for free, but if you can toss a coin to your Witcher, it’s extremely appreciated!