2016 R-SPEC Meeting Calendar

Please note: the following schedule is tentative. Please check for a listing on the home page before trying to attend a particular session. 

R-Spec meets eleven months of the year on the first Tuesday of the month. (We don't hold a regular meeting in December.) Normally we meet at the Barnes & Noble in Pittsford (3349 Monroe Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618), from 7 to 9 p.m.

For 'Reading' meetings, please show up by 10 minutes before 7pm so we can put your name on the list to read.

This calendar is also available as a PDF. Please contact us if you have any questions. 

Month Topics and Activities

• January (01-05-2016): Disturbing Frequencies Podcast Presentation and Reading Meeting
  Presenter: Kurt Schweitzer
  Moderator: Alan Vincent Michaels
• February (02-05-2016): Naming Worlds, Characters, and Objects
  Moderators: Alan Vincent Michaels
• March (03-01-2016): Annual Business Meeting / Read Your Work
• April (04-05-2016): Using Current Events in Speculative Fiction
  Presenter: Alan Vincent Michaels
• May (05-03-2016): The Setting – The Key to Speculative Fiction
  Panel: Kurt Schweitzer, Eric Scoles, Lynn Spitz, and Ted Wenskus
  Moderator: Alan Vincent Michaels
• June (06-07-2016): 

  Creative Collusion – The Realities of Co-Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction

  
  Presenters: Karen Craft, Marcos Donnelly, Meredith Powell, and Ted Wenskus
• July (07-05-2016): Read Your Work
  Moderator: Alan Vincent Michaels
• Separating Fact from Fiction for Stem Cells in the Present
  Presenter: Alicia Henn, Chief Scientific Officer at BioSpherix, Inc.
• September (09-06-2016): Writing Workshop – The Short-Short Story
  Moderator: Alan Vincent Michaels
• October: Under development
• November (11-01-2016): Read Your Work and Brainstorm Your Roadblocks
  Moderator: Alan Vincent Michaels 
• December: No scheduled R-SPEC group meeting—Social or  Workshop Event(s) TBD 

All topics are subject to change without prior notice.