My Eastercon schedule – update

Juliet March 30, 2026 Leave a Comment

This coming weekend, I’ll be at Iridescence, the Eastercon in Birmingham. My schedule is now as follows:

Friday, 3 April
16:30 Book launch: Wizard’s Tower Press
Sussex, 60 mins

Saturday, 4 April
09:00 Considering Anne McCaffrey
Sandringham, 60 mins

13:30 Appropriation of Greek Culture in the Anglophone world, and how to reclaim it
Salisbury-Wellington, 60 mins

15:00 Introduction to Fantasy Kingdoms
Salisbury-Wellington, 60 mins

Monday, 6 April 2026
10:30 Author Reading III
Salisbury-Wellington, 60 mins
I’ll be reading alongside Aliette de Bodard, and sharing the title of this year’s novel in my Green Man series, along with a short reading from that work in progress. I’ll also be offering a new taste of The Riven Kingdom, my epic fantasy novel coming from Angry Robot this autumn. Since keen readers are asking if this relates to my previous fantasy writing, you may be interested to know the story is set in the same world as Shadow Histories of the River Kingdom but these events unfold some centuries earlier…

As always at conventions, feel free to say hello, get a book signed, ask a question about my writing or writing in general.

Author: Juliet

Juliet E McKenna is a British fantasy author living in the Cotswolds, UK. Loving history, myth and other worlds since she first learned to read, she has written fifteen epic fantasy novels so far. Her debut, The Thief’s Gamble, began The Tales of Einarinn in 1999, followed by The Aldabreshin Compass sequence, The Chronicles of the Lescari Revolution, and The Hadrumal Crisis trilogy. The Green Man’s Heir was her first modern fantasy inspired by British folklore in 2018. The Green Man’s Quarry in 2023, the sixth title to follow, won the BSFA Award for Best Novel. The Green Man’s Holiday continues this ongoing series in October 2025. Her 2023 novel The Cleaving is a female-centred retelling of the story of King Arthur, while her shorter stories include forays into dark fantasy, steampunk and science fiction. She promotes SF&Fantasy by reviewing, by blogging on book trade issues, attending conventions and teaching creative writing. She has served as a judge for the James White Award, the Aeon Award, the Arthur C Clarke Award and the World Fantasy Awards. In 2015 she received the British Fantasy Society’s Karl Edward Wagner Award. As J M Alvey, she has written historical murder mysteries set in ancient Greece.