Confirmed program participants as of 10 February 1997
Claire Anderson
Catherine Asaro
Ellen Asher
N. Taylor Blanchard
Jael Brown
Ginjer Buchanan
Michael A. Burstein
Jeff Carver
Jeanne M. Cavelos
Hal Clement
Brenda W. Clough
Glen Cook
Bruce Coville
Kathryn Cramer
Don D'Ammassa
Keith R. A. DeCandido
Daniel P. Dern
Debra Doyle
Thomas A. Easton
Rosemary Edghill
Bob Eggleton
Gary Ehrlich
Janice M. Eisen
Gary Farber
Gregory Feeley
Michael F. Flynn
John M. Ford
Esther M. Friesner
Craig Shaw Gardner
Deborah M. Geisler
Denise Gendron
Susanne Gendron
Greer Gilman
Laura Anne Gilman
Christopher Golden
Geary Gravel
Gay Haldeman
Joe Haldeman
Nancy C. Hanger
Rob Hansen
Richard Harter
David G. Hartwell
Daniel Hatch
Jeff Hecht
Peter J. Heck
Melanie Herz
Rusty Hevelin
Connie Hirsch
Alexander Jablokov
Saul Jaffe
Nicholas Jainschigg
Jane Jewell
Jerry A. Kaufman
Marvin Kaye
Mark Keller
Thomas Kidd
Daniel Kimmel
Rosemary Kirstein
Ellen Kushner
Warren Lapine
Evelyn C. Leeper
Mark R. Leeper
Frederick Andrew Lerner
Anthony R. Lewis
Suford Lewis
James D. Macdonald
Mark Mandel
Lois H. Mangan
Jim Mann
Laurie Mann
Elise Matthesen
Joe Mayhew
Gary D. McGath
Edmund R. Meskys
Pat Morrissey
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Teresa Nielsen Hayden
Mark L. Olson
Priscilla Olson
Margaret Organ-Kean
Peggy Rae Pavlat
Katya Reimann
Faye Ringel
Charles Ryan
Don Sakers
Steven Sawicki
Sharon Sbarsky
Lawrence Schimel
Darrell Schweitzer
Melissa Scott
Joyce Scrivner
Delia Sherman
Josepha Sherman
Joe Siclari
Cortney Skinner
David A. Smith
Tom Smith
Edie Stern
Ian Randal Strock
Timothy P. Szczesuil
Cecilia Tan
Virginia Taylor
Suzanne Tompkins
Joan D. Vinge
Ron Walotsky
Mary Ellen Wessels
Tom Whitmore
Ben Yalow
Jane Yolen
Ann Tonsor Zeddies