The Toronto SpecFic Colloquium, a day-long event of “lectures which consider the importance of the stories that define humanity in the present age from the aliens hiding among us to the gates of hell ripping open in our backyards,” lands on Oct. 15.

This year’s theme is “Modern Mythologies,” and appropriately, YA fantasy novelist and “self-­professed history and mythology nerd” Lesley Livingston will be speaking on “Making up Worlds…and Words.” In the October issue of Q&Q, Livingston discusses her career and new novel, Once Every Never.