FanWorks 2021 Panel Nominations

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Panel nominations are now open!

Feel free to submit as many topics as you like. Panel selection will work similarly to last year, with the top five panels chosen through a survey sent to con attendees and the remainder of the schedule filled in through staff selection to ensure a variety of topics.

You can submit topics without volunteering to moderate them, but only panels with volunteer moderators will be put on the survey sent to con attendees for panel selection; panel topics without moderators will still be considered when staff are choosing additional panels to fill out the schedule.

Because FanWorks is virtual this year, there will be fewer panels than at the in-person con, but the goal is still to have a fairly even spread of panels for each of the usual tracks:

Art & Crafting:

    •    Drawing, painting, and other 2D art in digital and physical mediums

    •    Manips, gifs, icons, and other digital manipulation of images

    •    Graphic design for websites, merchandise (including stickers, pins, shirts etc.), and more

    •    Cosplay

    •    Knit crafts, clothing design, and textile arts

    •    Design and creation of dolls, custom figures, models, prop replicas, and more

    •    Jewelry, buttons, and other accessories

    •    Fannish home goods and home design

    •    Fandom-inspired food and drink

Audio:

    •    Podfic

    •    Podcasts

    •    Original fan music

    •    Filk

    •    Fanmixes

    •    Audio edits

Community:

    •    Platforms: Archives, blogs, social media, chat groups (eg slacks and discords)

    •    Events: Gift exchanges, challenges, fests, conventions

    •    Curation: Recs lists, fan wikis

Video:

    •    Fanvids, AMVs, machinima, and all kinds of fan music videos

    •    Meta videos: Fan theories, reaction videos

    •    Fan filmed content: Fan films, sweded films, cosplay music videos

Writing:

    •    Fanfiction: writing, reading, and betaing

    •    Meta and fandom essays

    •    Ship manifestos

    •    Poetry

    •    Zines: editing and collecting

Panel topics can range from introductory to advanced (see examples from 2019 and 2020).

Panel nominations are open now and run until Sunday, August 15th. If you have any questions, please e-mail fanworksprogramming@gmail.com.