Please note that there may still be a few last minute changes to the programme.
There is a 15 minute interval between each programme item.
Friday, June 14th
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The Big Room |
The Reading Room |
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18:00 |
Good Reads Our traditional first panel. The panelists each choose a book, all of them read it and discuss it. Beth Friedman, Thomas Noriega (M), Sabina Pagotto, Lewis Powell |
18:00 | |
19:15
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How do you title a book? You'd think it would be easy, but A Fire Upon the Deep was originally called Among the Tines, and it took more than a year before Rene came up with the perfect title for Among Others. Where do titles come from, and why does it matter? Mal Frasier, Victoria Goddard, Michèle LaFramboise, Ada Palmer (M), Su Sokol |
19:15 | Rosemary Kirstein Reading |
20:00 |
Lila Garrott Reading |
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20:30 |
That’s Not How It Works Our panel of experts debunk some myths. Mike Booth, Grace Burson, Ruthanna Emrys, Gretchen McCulloch (M), Sabina Pagotto |
20:45 | Greer Gilman Reading |
21:30 | Yves Meynard Reading |
Saturday, June 15th |
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The Big Room |
The Reading Room |
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10:00 |
Moving Through the World: Writing Travel Tolkien didn't start it, Homer started it. It can be a quest, a picaresque, a story of there and back again, but how and why do we write characters moving through the world? Victoria Goddard, Rosemary Kirstein, Ada Palmer (M), Alison Sinclair, Su Sokol |
10:00 |
Ruthanna Emrys interviewed by Lewis Powell |
11:15
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The Blue Panel The Blue Sword, The Blue Hawk, The Blue Castle: Three very different books, yet their similarities go beyond the colour in the title. Mathieu Glachant, Gretchen McCulloch, Alexis Shotwell, Shaz Taslimi, Jo Walton (M) |
11:15 |
Naomi Kritzer Reading |
12:00 |
Victoria Goddard Reading |
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12:30 |
Lunch |
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14:00 |
Shaping a story for different media Comics, games, and movies are different from written fiction, and need some skills that are the same and some that are different. How do the skills translate? EJ Fischer, Michèle LaFramboise, Ada Palmer (M), Andrew Plotkin, Jesse Scoble |
14:00 |
Will Alexander interviewed by Jo Walton |
15:15 |
Using Fiction to Change the World! Some books change the world so much we're not reading them in the world they were written in. Other books get overwhelmed by the message. How do we keep this balance? Will Alexander, Naomi Kritzer, Alexis Shotwell (M), Su Sokol |
15:15 |
Ada Palmer interviewed by Mathieu Glachant |
16:30 |
Fictionalising History If we're going to write things using history, why don't we just write historical novels? What do we gain from reshaping and adding to history? Maya Chhabra, Alice Degan, Naomi Kritzer, Sherwood Smith, Jo Walton (M) |
16:30 | Norstrilia Book club Emmet O’Brien |
17:45 |
Training montages, infodumps and other things we’re not supposed to like There are things writers are told not to do but which readers eat with a spoon, what's up with that? Mal Frasier, Gretchen McCulloch, Alison Sinclair, Shaz Taslimi, Jo Walton (M) |
17:45 | Playreading: The Replacement Traitor, or Crucifixion on the Orient Express, by Katherine Nehring |
18:45 |
Supper |
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20:15 |
Sassafrass Concert |
Sunday, June 16th |
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The Big Room |
The Reading Room |
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10:00 |
A Book For Grown-ups What do we do differently when we're thinking about the age of our protagonists? Will Alexander, Michèle LaFramboise, Sherwood Smith, Yves Meynard, Maya Chhabra |
10:00 |
Victoria Goddard, interviewed by Alexis Shotwell |
11:15 |
Imaginary Books The books in books that don't exist and yet we know what it would feel like to read them. Mal Frasier, Lila Garrott, Greer Gilman, Yves Meynard Jo Walton (M) |
11:15 |
Ada Palmer Reading |
12:30 |
Lunch |
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14:00 |
Making Up Names for people and places Making names sound consistent and evocative is harder than it looks. Greer Gilman, Rosemary Kirstein, Gretchen McCulloch (M), Jesse Scoble, Sherwood Smith
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14:00 |
Eugene Fischer Reading |
14:45 |
Alice Degan Reading |
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15:15 |
Dante, SF writer ari dorsey, Victoria Goddard, Thomas Noriega, Ada Palmer, Jo Walton |
15:30 |
Su Sokol Reading |
16:30 |
The Future of the Whole Planet How do we write and plan futures thinking about the whole world and not just where we are, and what does it mean when we do? Will Alexander, Ruthanna Emrys, Eugene Fischer, Naomi Kritzer, Ada Palmer (M) |
16:30 | Lolly Willowes Book club Lila Garrott |
17:45 |
Raffle Drawing |