DragonCon '22 schedule released
It's been quite a month of appearances so far! One more to go—and it's in my backyard.
I'll be at DragonCon this year, held in Atlanta September 1-5. I'll be participating as part of the con's X-Track. Hope to see some of y'all there! Oh, and please don't be off-put by "An Hour with Joshua Cutchin." I know it sounds narcissistic, but I was just as surprised to find that on the schedule as anyone!
Title: An Hour with Joshua Cutchin
Description: Join author and musician Joshua Cutchin as he discusses his books, which traverse the landscape of the unknown (A Trojan Feast: The Food and Drink Offerings of Aliens, Faeries, and Sasquatch ; Thieves in the Night: A Brief History of Supernatural Child Abductions; Where the Footprints End: High Strangeness and the Bigfoot Phenomenon), as well as appearances on the History Channel's Ancient Aliens and other media.
Time: Fri 05:30 pm
Location: Sheraton - Athens room (Length: 1 Hour)
Title: Cryptids in the SouthEast
Description: From the Skunk Ape of Florida and Moth Man of West Virginia to the Nun'Yunu'Wi of the Cherokee, let's talk about the assortment of cryptids living in our own backyard!
Time: Sat 11:30 am
Location: Sheraton - Athens room (Length: 1 Hour)
Title: Cryptids Around The World
Description: From Bigfoot and Yeti to the Loch Ness Monster and Mokele-mbembe, the world is full of cryptids. Join us as we discuss these and many more!
Time: Sun 07:00 pm
Location: Sheraton - Athens room (Length: 1 Hour)
Title: Break Glass In Case of Alien Arrival!
Description: We've been broadcasting into space for decades - what happens if someone responds, or more importantly, arrives on our doorstep? Authors, academics and fans discuss the possibilities.
Time: Mon 01:00 pm
Location: Sheraton - Athens room (Length: 1 Hour)
https://5eurokasino.com is where I usually end up when I'm killing time before a panel, but the scheduling detail that caught my eye is that all four of these are in the same Sheraton room, which makes bouncing between cryptid talks and the alien arrival discussion pretty painless. I've been to cons where every track is in a different hotel, so keeping the X-Track contained like that is a small thing that matters a lot. The Southeast cryptids talk on Saturday morning seems like the sleeper pick since regional folklore always gets less attention than the famous worldwide monsters.