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Readercon Schedule
Jul. 3rd, 2010 03:32 pmThursday 8:00 PM, Salon G: Talk / Discussion (90 min.)
Imagine or Die. Barry B. Longyear with discussion by Lauren P. Burka, Gemma Files, Elaine Isaak, Mary Robinette Kowal, K. A. Laity, Resa Nelson.
A writer without a working imagination is stymied. We'll take about the care and feeding of imagination, how to unleash it and let it run.
Thursday 9:00 PM, ME/ CT: Workshop (90 min.)
Speculative Poetry Workshop. Mike Allen with participation by, Leah Bobet, Gemma Files, Shira Lipkin, Ken Schneyer.
What is speculative poetry? How do you write it, why would you want to, and which editors will buy it? Come prepared to write on the fly.
Friday 11:00 AM, ME/ CT: Panel
The Fiction of A. Merritt, 2009 Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award Winner. Suzy McKee Charnas, Michael Cisco, Gemma Files, Elizabeth Hand, Jack M. Haringa (L).
Abraham Merritt was a pulp fantasy writer whose novels influencd his contemporaries H.P. Lovecraft and Richard Shaver, as well as the recent work of J.J. Abrams, who is widely believed to have based the plot to "Lost" on Merritt's _The Moon Pool_. His lush, florid prose style and his exhaustive, at times exhausting, penchant for adjective-laden detail set him apart from other pulp writers, and made _The Ship of Ishtar_ a fantasy classic. We will examine his stories as well as the influence of his genuine imaginative power.
Friday 1:30 PM, VT: Reading (30 min.)
Gemma Files will read "The Jacaranda Smile," her Shirley Jackson Award nominated story, and an excerpt from _A Book of Tongues_, her new novel.
Friday 3:00 PM, : Autographing
Friday 4:00 PM, VT: Group Reading
_Mythic Delirium / Goblin Fruit_ Group Reading (60 min.). Mike Allen and Amal El-Mohtar (hosts), Erik Amundsen, Kate Baker, C.S.E. Cooney, Gemma Files, Francesca Forest, Theodora Goss, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Shira Lipkin, Caitlyn Paxson, Sonya Taaffe,Catherynne M. Valente.
Joint reading from _Mythic Delirium_, the biannual magazine of speculative poetry edited by Allen, and _Goblin Fruit_, the quarterly online zine of fantastical poetry edited by El-Mohtar and Jessica Wick, including samples from the recent "Mythic Fruit" and "Goblin Delirium" issues produced by a recent "editor swap." N.B.: I'll be doing "Jar of Salts" and "Mrs Margery Lovett, Her Book".
Saturday 11:00 AM, Salon G: Panel
The Career of Nalo Hopkinson. Elizabeth Bear, Gemma Files, Andrea Hairston, Victoria Janssen, Gary K. Wolfe (L).
Saturday 3:00 PM, Salon G: Event
The Rhysling Award Poetry Slan. Mike Allen MC), Erik Amundsen, Kate Baker, Leah Bobet, C.S.E. Cooney, Amal El-Mohtar, Gemma Files, Francesca Forest, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Shira Lipkin, Caitlyn Paxson, Darrell Schweitzer, Sonya Taaffe, Cecilia Tan, Catherynne M. Valente. Climaxed by the presentation of this year's Rhysling Awards.
N.B.: I'll be reading "The Drowned Town", my nominated long poem.
Sunday 10:00 AM, NH / MA: Group Reading
_Clockwork Phoenix 3_ Group Reading (60 min.). Mike Allen (host), Kate Baker, C.S.E. Cooney, Gemma Files, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Ken Schneyer.
Readings from the third volume of the annual non-theme anthology (subtitled _More Tales of Beauty and Strangeness_) edited by Allen and just published by Norilana Books. N.B.: I'll be reading from "Hell Friend".
Sunday 11:00 AM, Salon G: Event
The Shirley Jackson Awards.. Nalo Hopkinson (MC), Nick Antosca, Ellen Datlow, Gemma Files [and Stephen J. Barringer], Caitlin R. Kiernan, Robert Shearman, and Paul Witcover (nominees), F. Brett Cox and John Langan (judges), Elizabeth Hand, Jack M. Haringa, Peter Straub, Paul Tremblay (advisors).
So...not as busy as it could be, and I'll try to keep up in the panels, but...perhaps, yes, this may be one of the reasons I keep dreaming about the Apocalypse every friggin' night. I'm excited.
Imagine or Die. Barry B. Longyear with discussion by Lauren P. Burka, Gemma Files, Elaine Isaak, Mary Robinette Kowal, K. A. Laity, Resa Nelson.
A writer without a working imagination is stymied. We'll take about the care and feeding of imagination, how to unleash it and let it run.
Thursday 9:00 PM, ME/ CT: Workshop (90 min.)
Speculative Poetry Workshop. Mike Allen with participation by, Leah Bobet, Gemma Files, Shira Lipkin, Ken Schneyer.
What is speculative poetry? How do you write it, why would you want to, and which editors will buy it? Come prepared to write on the fly.
Friday 11:00 AM, ME/ CT: Panel
The Fiction of A. Merritt, 2009 Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award Winner. Suzy McKee Charnas, Michael Cisco, Gemma Files, Elizabeth Hand, Jack M. Haringa (L).
Abraham Merritt was a pulp fantasy writer whose novels influencd his contemporaries H.P. Lovecraft and Richard Shaver, as well as the recent work of J.J. Abrams, who is widely believed to have based the plot to "Lost" on Merritt's _The Moon Pool_. His lush, florid prose style and his exhaustive, at times exhausting, penchant for adjective-laden detail set him apart from other pulp writers, and made _The Ship of Ishtar_ a fantasy classic. We will examine his stories as well as the influence of his genuine imaginative power.
Friday 1:30 PM, VT: Reading (30 min.)
Gemma Files will read "The Jacaranda Smile," her Shirley Jackson Award nominated story, and an excerpt from _A Book of Tongues_, her new novel.
Friday 3:00 PM, : Autographing
Friday 4:00 PM, VT: Group Reading
_Mythic Delirium / Goblin Fruit_ Group Reading (60 min.). Mike Allen and Amal El-Mohtar (hosts), Erik Amundsen, Kate Baker, C.S.E. Cooney, Gemma Files, Francesca Forest, Theodora Goss, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Shira Lipkin, Caitlyn Paxson, Sonya Taaffe,Catherynne M. Valente.
Joint reading from _Mythic Delirium_, the biannual magazine of speculative poetry edited by Allen, and _Goblin Fruit_, the quarterly online zine of fantastical poetry edited by El-Mohtar and Jessica Wick, including samples from the recent "Mythic Fruit" and "Goblin Delirium" issues produced by a recent "editor swap." N.B.: I'll be doing "Jar of Salts" and "Mrs Margery Lovett, Her Book".
Saturday 11:00 AM, Salon G: Panel
The Career of Nalo Hopkinson. Elizabeth Bear, Gemma Files, Andrea Hairston, Victoria Janssen, Gary K. Wolfe (L).
Saturday 3:00 PM, Salon G: Event
The Rhysling Award Poetry Slan. Mike Allen MC), Erik Amundsen, Kate Baker, Leah Bobet, C.S.E. Cooney, Amal El-Mohtar, Gemma Files, Francesca Forest, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Shira Lipkin, Caitlyn Paxson, Darrell Schweitzer, Sonya Taaffe, Cecilia Tan, Catherynne M. Valente. Climaxed by the presentation of this year's Rhysling Awards.
N.B.: I'll be reading "The Drowned Town", my nominated long poem.
Sunday 10:00 AM, NH / MA: Group Reading
_Clockwork Phoenix 3_ Group Reading (60 min.). Mike Allen (host), Kate Baker, C.S.E. Cooney, Gemma Files, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Ken Schneyer.
Readings from the third volume of the annual non-theme anthology (subtitled _More Tales of Beauty and Strangeness_) edited by Allen and just published by Norilana Books. N.B.: I'll be reading from "Hell Friend".
Sunday 11:00 AM, Salon G: Event
The Shirley Jackson Awards.. Nalo Hopkinson (MC), Nick Antosca, Ellen Datlow, Gemma Files [and Stephen J. Barringer], Caitlin R. Kiernan, Robert Shearman, and Paul Witcover (nominees), F. Brett Cox and John Langan (judges), Elizabeth Hand, Jack M. Haringa, Peter Straub, Paul Tremblay (advisors).
So...not as busy as it could be, and I'll try to keep up in the panels, but...perhaps, yes, this may be one of the reasons I keep dreaming about the Apocalypse every friggin' night. I'm excited.
