May Orange Salon
An invitation to attend the February Orange Salon with special guest Fran Wilde
We’re thrilled to invite you to attend the May 2026 Orange Salon, with special guest Fran Wilde. The salon will take place online (via Zoom), and will include an informal discussion with our special guest, a reading, a Q&A session, and an interactive writing activity.
The salon is available to all paid subscribers, who can either attend live, or view the recording at a later time. You can also access the salon using a single-use unlock, if you have one.
When?
10 am Saturday, 23 May (Sydney/AEST).
8 pm Friday, 22 May in New York, USA
5 pm Friday, 22 May in Los Angeles, USA
You can use this online meeting planner to work out what time that is wherever you are!
Where?
Online via zoom: the link will go out to all subscribers two hours prior to the session.
Who?
Our salon guest for May 2026 is the magical writer and artist, Fran Wilde.
Two-time Nebula Award-winner Fran Wilde has (so far) published nine novels, a poetry collection, and over 70 short stories for adults, teens, and kids. Her stories have been finalists for six Nebula Awards, a World Fantasy Award, four Hugo Awards, four Locus Awards, and a Lodestar. They include her Nebula- and Compton Crook-winning debut novel Updraft, and her Nebula-winning, Best of NPR 2019, debut Middle Grade novel Riverland. Her short stories appear in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Tor.com, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Shimmer, Nature, Uncanny Magazine, and multiple years’ best anthologies.
The Managing Editor for The Sunday Morning Transport, Fran teaches or has taught for schools including Vermont College of Fine Arts’ MFA and St. Mary’s College of Maryland. She writes nonfiction for publications including The Washington Post, The New York Times, NPR, and Tor.com. You can find her on Instagram, Bluesky, and at franwilde.net.