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The 6th Annual Rhode Island Author Expo 12/1/18 10am-5pm

6th Annual Rhode Island Author Expo

The 6th Annual Rhode Island Author Expo returns to Rhodes on the Pawtuxet in Cranston, RI.

Remember to like the Expo’s Facebook page and RSVP on the Expo’s Facebook event page.

Interested in discovering a Rhode Island Author? Then here’s your chance to meet 130 of them.

Free parking, free admission, free writing panels & speakers and even pictures with Santa for the kids!

Headliners include New York Times Best Selling Author Lisa Gardner, Mike Stanton, Jon Land, Rebecca Harrington, Kim Arcand and many more!

Once you’re done shopping for that book reader on your list feel free to sit and listen to any of the free writing panels.

The kids will love our Children’s Area with author readings and painting classes.

And don’t forgot to stay until the end for the raffle drawings!

The 6th Annual Rhode Island Author Expo is a fun time to be had either rain or shine!

ARIA Author Meet & Greet at Rhode Island Comic Con & Writer’s Panel

3rd Annual ARIA Meet & Greet at Rhode Island Comic Con!

The Association of Rhode Island Authors is pleased to announce a contingent of science fiction, fantasy and horror writers will be attending Rhode Island Comic-Con on November 2nd, 3rd & 4th 2018 at the Rhode Island Convention Center as well as having a writer’s panel on 11/3/18.

Their tables will be:

Artist Alley 544: Christopher Paniccia

Artist Alley 339: Tim Jones

Table 811: Bolivar Beato & Emily Tallman

Table 813: Keith Carreiro & R. J. Castiglione

Table 910: Russ Chevalier & John Raposa

Table 912: D. R. Perry& Angelina Singer

Table 914: Association of Rhode Island Authors – Anthology Books

Table 916: J. Michael Squatrito, Jr.& Tabitha Lord

Table 918: R. K. Bentley & Christa Carmen

A map of the Convention Center Floor layout with table highlights is below.

Our Facebook Event Page can be found here.

Exploring Real World Conflicts in Otherworldly Settings: The Intersection of Storytelling and Morality in Science Fiction

11/3/18 12:15pm – 1pm Fan Panel Room B

Writers don’t work in a vacuum. Fiction, especially science fiction, offers an opportunity to explore real world conflicts and moral dilemmas from the safety and distance of another time or place. Are writers obligated to address the pressing issues of our time through our work? How does the news cycle impact our storytelling? What interesting questions are science fiction writers exploring today, either in writing or on the screen? Join us for this thought provoking and timely conversation.

Moderated by Tabitha Lord with panelists R. K. Bentley, Christopher Paniccia, D. R. Perry and J. Michael Squatrito, Jr.