Basic human rights

A court case brought against Jackson Memorial Hospital in Florida for denying a dying woman's same sex partner and their children access to her in the hospital has found for the hospital.

Nicola Griffith urges us all to do something so that this outrage won't happen again, in her post Trembling with Rage

My World Fantasy Convention schedule

Friday 12:00 PM The Best of the Year Thus Far

The panelists will discuss the outstanding shorter works (i.e. novellas and short stories) published thus far this year. Ellen Datlow, David Hartwell, John Klima, Jonathan Strahan (and perhaps one other person)

Friday 8-11pm mass autographing

Saturday 8:45-10pm A sampling from Lovecraft Unbound with in the Crystal Room. This item will not be in the program as it's "unofficial"

Brian Evenson
Michael Shea
Anna Tambour
Marc Laidlaw
Laird Barron
Nick Mamatas
Amanda Downum

Sunday 5:30-6:30 Roundtable on Poe to commemorate the bicentennial, talking about his work and influence, and the last 200 years of supernatural fiction, and the Poe anthologies edited by Ellen Datlow and Peter Straub.
Peter Straub, Brian Evenson, and Ellen Datlow participating with Gary Wolfe moderating.

This, like my Lovecraft Unbound reading is not a part of the official programming. I'm trying to procure the info as to where it will take place. It's being sponsored by Locus.