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Miriam Seidel at book launch
2024:

September 25, 6:15 pm: Talk, “Why I Write Science Fiction & Fantasy,” Lansdowne Library Author Series, Lansdowne Library (Lansdowne, PA).

2023:

December 9, 3 pm: Appearing with other New Door Books authors at Saturday Spotlight, Barnes & Noble (Philadelphia, PA).

November 17–19, Philcon: Moderating “Sentient Spaceships” panel, panelist on “Shifting Definition of Monster,” “Going Dark,” “Gideon the Ninth” at Doubletree by Hilton (Cherry Hill, NJ)

2022:

September 7: “All But True” reading (moderator), Facing the Storm: New Climate Fiction, with authors Sim Kern and Andrew Dana Hudson, hosted by Working Writers Group and A Novel Idea Bookshop (Philadelphia, PA)

Virtual author reading, Strong Women/Strange Worlds Quickreads event, with authors Rachel Ann Brune, K. Ibura, Susan McCauley, Holly Lyn Walrath

Moderated “All But True” reading with authors Louis Greenstein & Sam Gridley, A Novel Idea Bookshop (Philadelphia, PA)

2021:

Appeared at PHILCON on panel about postcolonial Steampunk fantasy (Cherry Hill NJ)

Gallery talk, PAFA Fellowship Annual Exhibition, Gross McCleaf Gallery (Philadelphia, PA)

2020:

Appeared at PHILCON on panels about Hopepunk, Alternate History, Climate Fiction

Spoke about artist Millie Greenberg, the inspiration for the character of Roxie in The Speed of Clouds, at the exhibit of her work, Electricity: From the Mind of Mildred Greenberg, at InLiquid Gallery (Philadelphia)

2019:

Appeared at PHILCON on panels about climate change and science fiction, alternative history in the age of alternative facts, compassionate representation (Cherry Hill NJ)

Hosted “All But True” reading event with authors Sarah Pinsker & A.C. Wise, Penn Book Center (Philadelphia)

Gallery talk, PAFA Fellowship Annual Exhibition, Hot-Bed Gallery (Philadelphia)

Author Reading, Norwescon (Seattle, WA)

In conversation with Josiah Bancroft, launch of Bancroft’s The Hod King, Penn Book Center (Philadelphia)


2018:

Appeared at PHILCON: talk on“Tesla, Gernsback, and the Birth of Modern Science Fiction,” panel moderator: Jungian Archetypes in SFF, panelist: A Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin, Hugo Nominee Review 2018 (Cherry Hill, NJ)

Author Reading at World Fantasy Convention (Baltimore, MD)

Guest speaker, Philadelphia Science Fiction Society monthly meeting (Philadelphia)

Galactic Philadelphia reading, with Alan Smale (Philadelphia)

Reading from The Speed of Clouds, and closing gallery tour for the exhibit Connie Mississippi: Circle of Time (and guest curated the show), The Center for Art in Wood, (Philadelphia)

Author reading at Op Cit Books (Santa Fe, NM); Reading & book signing at Penn Book Center (Philadelphia); The Speed of Clouds reading and book signing, Big Blue Marble Bookstore (Philadelphia)

The Speed of Clouds book event Penn Book Center

The Speed of Clouds book launch, reading and book signing, Narberth Bookshop (Narberth, PA)

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