News & Events


Click here to listen to Katya read an excerpt from her sophomore novel Oasis, recorded for Des Moines Science Fiction & Fantasy Society (DMSFFS)

Katya will be doing a reading at DemiCon 32, Des Moines’ Annual Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Gaming Convention, April 30 – May 2, 2021

The Only One in the World: A Sherlock Holmes Anthology is announced, featuring Katya de Becerra’s story SOLACE SPRING, in which Sherlock and Watsons are reimagined as university students in perestroika-era Russia.

Past Events

Facebook Group Takeover: Friday, 26 February 2021: Candace’s Pretty Monsters www.facebook.com/groups/candacesprettymonsters/

WriteOnCon 2021

WriteOnCon 2021 – use Time Traveller admission to access my two events with online conference for kidlit writers (19-21 February)

Get Inspired by Your Favorite Published Books (workshop): https://www.writeoncon.org/workshop-get-inspired-by-your-favorite-published-books/
Querying Agents (vlog): https://www.writeoncon.org/querying-agents/
One Foot in Each World: Creative Writing & Scholarship, University of Toronto.
Free and open to public but registrations essential: https://www.eas.utoronto.ca/events/one-foot-each-world-creative-writing-and-scholarship
Join A.J. Vrana and Katya de Becerra as they chat about agents and querying: IG Live 25 Nov, 8pm EDT
10 November, 2020 10am AEST NaNoWriMo livestream interview: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChUCLZr9JRhrKNrmMkZ0mGw
Join Katya and Candace for #SpecLitChat (special Halloween Edition) on 21 October, 7-8pm CST (22 October, 10-11am AEST)
30 September, 7pm AEST: Katya de Becerra and Alicia Jasinska discuss worldbuilding in fantasy writing, moderated by Annie McCann of Read3rz Re-Vu, hosted by Oz Authors Online https://ozauthors.online/watch?e=1

1 August 2020: ConZealand 78th World SF Convention, ‘Writing for Young Adults’ panel starting 12pm NZST

14 March 2020: Melbourne YA Day

7 March 2020: OASIS launch at Paperchain Bookstore (34 Franklin St, Manuka ACT 2603)

16 February 2020: Working with an Editorial Agent SHOWCASE at WriteOnCon

9 January 2020: OASIS launch in Los Angeles, with special guest Adalyn Grace (starting 7pm @ Once Upon a Time Bookshop)

7 January 2020 OASIS launch in New York City, with special guest Sara Faring (starting 6pm @ Books on Wonder)

2 October 2019: Swinburne Writers Festival

12 July: In Conversation & Book Signing at Paperchain Bookstore, Canberra

8 July: #CampNaNoAdvice (starting 3pm PDT)

25 June 2019: YA Masterclass @ Emerging Writers Festival

6-7 April 2019: Supanova Expo Melbourne Showgrounds

28 April 2019: Signing at Barnes & Noble Bakersfield (starting 2pm)

11 April 2019: Dark Imaginings (starting 6pm @ Readings Kids) with Rachael Craw, Sarah Epstein and Sarah Robinson-Hatch

13 April 2019: GeekCon @ Wangaratta Library

15-16 March 2019: Speculate (The Victorian Speculative Writers Festival) @ Gasworks Art Park

2019 YA Day @ Wheeler Centre/Writers Victoria

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