Emily A Weedon is a screenwriter, novelist, creator, coproducer and recovering performing and recording musician who is comfortable writing across mediums and forms from long form drama and romantic comedy, to dark, dystopian literary dramatic prose, satirizing and/or riffing in animated adult comedy. She is the author of the forthcoming Autokrator, with Cormorant Books, 2023, and the co-creator of 2 seasons of a period drama about a hotel in Ottawa, as well as the proud writer of 4 animated Red Ketchup Episodes for Corus. She spent almost 30 years in the Art Department where she was constantly pitching ideas and discovered that's a liability in Art Dept, but a great skill in the writer's room. She hopes to keep writing for a living because she simply cannot make enough money tap dancing for cat food. (mostly because she is the first person ever to be failed in tap dance class) Please buy her forthcoming book, or consider buying her old tap shoes.
Creative writing and creative sculpture - unleashing creativity through figure making. Ideating, connecting with icons and images, self parenting through art, healing trauma through art.
Discussing Autokrator the book and it's creation, cultural significance, significance of speculative fiction, women's issues, history, sociology culture and their bearing on character and world building, building narratives, world building, role of story telling in c0creating democracy, using imagination and creation to critique politics and culture, using imagination and creativity to imagine a better tomorrow, one person's utopia is someone else's dystopia, ways power corrupts all people and institutions.
