Name: The Past is not the Present
Start: 2026-10-22T11:30:00-0600
End: 2026-10-22T12:15:00-0600

The Past is not the Present

Thursday October 22, 2026 11:30am - 12:15pm MDT

Glen 208

Balancing historical reality and modern agency

Moderators

Iona Whishaw

Iona Whishaw is the author of the award-winning best-selling Lane Winslow Mysteries. She is a former educator whose mother and grandfather were both spies during their respective wars. She has won the Bony Blythe award, and has been a finalist for a Crime Writers of Canada award... Read More →

Speakers

Baer Charlton

Baer Charlton secretly read science fiction books while his seventh-grade teacher talked. Listening to older people gave him a basis for characters. Talking and sharing meals with the older members of marginalized cultures give his characters depth. Baer’s characters remind readers... Read More →

Rob Osler

Rob Osler is the USA Today Bestselling Author of Harriet Morrow Investigates, so far including The Case Of The Missing Maid and The Case Of The Murdered Muckraker, both Publishers Weekly Starred Reviews. Rob also writes Perry Winkle Whodunits for Ellery Queen Magazine. An Edgar Finalist... Read More →

Olesya Lyuzna

Olesya Lyuzna is the author of the Ginny Dugan Mysteries, a queer, female-driven noir series set in the glittering shadows of the Jazz Age. She lives in Toronto, where she spends her free time hosting murder mystery parties, haunting old movie theatres, and scouring the archives for... Read More →

Nekesa Afia

Thursday October 22, 2026 11:30am - 12:15pm MDT
Glen 208 136 8th Avenue SE Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2G 0K6

Bouchercon2026: Calgary

Iona Whishaw

Baer Charlton

Rob Osler

Olesya Lyuzna

Nekesa Afia

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Bouchercon2026: Calgary

Iona Whishaw

Baer Charlton

Rob Osler

Olesya Lyuzna

Nekesa Afia

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