World Fantasy Convention 2009 Program Schedule Grid
Fixed Functions and Services Registration-Market Street Foyer Hospitality - International Suite, 20th Floor, Room 2003 Wednesday 7 pm–10 pm Thursday 4 pm–2 am Thursday 12 noon–6 pm Friday 9 am–2 am Friday 10 am–6 pm Saturday 9 am–2 am Saturday 10 am–6 pm Sunday 9 am–1 pm Dealers Room – Imperial Ballroom Art Show – Imperial Scores Live Ballroom Thursday 12 noon–6 pm Thursday 2 pm–6 pm Friday 10 am–6 pm Friday 10 am–6 pm (Direct sales start at 2 pm) Saturday 10 am–6 pm Saturday 10 am–6 pm Sunday 10 am–3:30 pm Artist Reception: Saturday 7 pm–9 pm Art Auction: Saturday 9 pm– Media/Press Office – California Room Operations – Empire Room Thursday 12 noon–5 pm Thursday 1 pm–5 pm; 6 pm–9 pm Friday 10 am–5 pm Friday 9:30 am–6 pm Saturday 10 am–5 pm Saturday 9:30 am–6 pm Sunday 10 am–12 noon Sunday 9:30 am–12:30 pm; 4 pm–6 pm (contact information posted for other times)
Thursday Garden Room Market Street Time Crystal Room Gold Room Club Regent OTHER READINGS Foyer 3:00 PM Round Robin Lori Ann White Painting 3:30 PM Gist, Graciano Blake Charlton
4:00 PM Poe's Influence Mark Sebanc DeCles, Langan, Phyllis Irene 4:30 PM Levitt, Richardson Radford Opening 5:00 PM Ceremonies Regency Ball 5:30 PM Room Donald Sydney- 6:00 PM Janni Lee Simner Fryer Reading James G. 6:30 PM Anderson 7:00 PM Eugene Myers
7:30 PM Catherine Cheek READINGS Google Books 8:00 PM Settlement Louise Marley Gamber, Kasten- 8:30 PM smidt, Lake, Wester Frederic S. Durbin Newton, Petit Poetry Not a 9:00 PM Ken Scholes Purpose, but a Passion. 9:30 PM Travis Heermann Garfinkle
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Friday Garden Room Time Crystal Room Gold Room OTHER READINGS Who, What or Why Writing Human 10:00 AM Isobelle Jane Carmody WFC Business Meeting Done It Characters, Whether or #1 Cheney , Gilman, Olson, T S.. Not Human Valley Room 10:30 AM Roche, Yarbro Coe, Elliott, Hill, Kenyon, Roberts Robert Freeman Wexler VanderMeer on 11:00 AM Richard Paul Russo VanderMeer Poetry of the Fantastic Jeff VanderMeer and Ann Graves, Lunde, Shea, Sidney-Fryer 11:30 AM Carol Berg VanderMeer
12:00 PM Shelf Lives: The Art and The Best of the Year Guy Gavriel Kay
Design of Book Covers Thus Far
12:30 PM Picado Hartwell. Datlow, Klima, Strahan
1:00 PM Invention vs. Tradition Zoran Zivkovic Garth Nix Interview Sherman, Kessel, Lupoff, Garth Nix interviewed by Jay Lake. 1:30 PM Meacham, Waters Tim Pratt
2:00 PM Fantasy in Translation Non-Concilatory Fantasy Michael Swanwick
Morgan, Živkovic Graff, , Lassen, Drake, Erikson, James
2:30 PM Mamatas, VanderMeer ´ Minz, VanderMeer Garth Nix
Canonical Fantasy - 3:0 PM Richard Lupoff Genre Fiction & The The Role of the Raven Library of America Isaak, Chambers, Hearst, Hughes, 3:30 PM Peter Straub, Joshi, Evenson, Paxson Powers, Wolfe Overlooked Early 4:00 PM Lisa Snellings Interview Writers of the Joseph Michael McDermott Lisa Snellings interviewed by John Supernatural 4:30 PM Picacio. Young, Brown, Niswander, Sharon Shinn Robichaud, Roden Artists Who Write & 5:00 PM The Last Resort Marc Laidlaw Writers Who Paint Van Name, Bolich,. Brett, DeNiro, Haber , Bear, Gilligan, McGuire, 5:00 PM Saberhagen Tony Richards Rucker Dinner Break
8:30 PM
9:00 PM Group Autographing
Regency Ballroom
9:30 PM
10:00 PM Jesse Bullington
10:30 PM Robert Freeman Wexler
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Saturday Day Time Garden Room Time Crystal Room Gold Room READINGS
10:00 Academic Treatment of Fantasy Why Steampunk Now? Philippa Jane Ballantine AM Biancotti, Gorinsky, Swanwick, A VanderMeer, & Horror Breed, Bratman, Schaff-Stump, Schweitzer, 10:30 Nisi Shawl Weisman Kij Johnson AM
11:00 The Role of Religion in Jeffrey Ford AM Know the Soup You're In Contemporary Fantasy Lisa Snellings Hartlove, Andrijeski, Silverberg, Smith, Živkovic´ 11:30 Greg van Eekhout AM When People Confuse the Author 12:00 PM with Their Work Improv Story Telling Patricia McKillip Ferrari, Edelman, Robinette Kowal, Lake,. Levine 12:30 PM Kushner, Nix, Powers Saladin Ahmed Urban Fantasy as Alternate Are Homosexual Characters Past 1:00 PM History Notice? Peter Straub Modesitt, Jr., Grimwood, Park, Swanwick, Moore,. Kehrli, 1:30 PM Willingham Linnaea, Lo, Young Ellen Klages Coarse Dialog and Graceful What We Read Just for Fun 2:00 PM Description - A Balancing Act Michael Allen Shea J. VanderMeer, Lupoff, Nix, Hoak, Frenkel, Kay, Swanwick, Zorn Živkovic´ 2:30 PM Kushner, Paticia McKillip Brendan Connell F&SF Turns Sixty 3:00 PM Notable Books of the Year N. K. (Nora) Jemisin Van Gelder, Grania Davis, Etchemendy, Lupoff, Newitz, Ackroyd, Fletcher, Trombi, Whitmore 3:30 PM Murphy Jay Lake
4:00 PM The End of the World What Makes a Good Monster Jeff VanderMeer Mannetti, Rhoads, Shirley, Mark Teppo, Wilson Wells, Brenchley, Clark, Jne Pinborough 4:30 PM Meg Turville-Heitz
5:00 PM Multi-Author Reading of “The The Sorcerer in Fantasy Will Ludwigsen Raven” Hieber, Swanwick,, Nix, Sidney-Fryer . Fultz, Ford, Goldstein, Hoffman, Pugmire 5:30 PM Terry Bisson Dinner Break
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Saturday Evening Time Crystal Room Club Regent Market Street Foyer OTHER 7:00 PM 7:30 PM Art Show Reception Publishing and Bookselling Imperial Ball Room 8:00 PM in 10 Years Robert Jackson Bennett Hart, Beatts, Ketter 8:30 PM Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff Followed by 9:00 PM The Living Dead Walk... Heidi Lampietti and Walk... And Walk Art Auction 9:30 PM Skipp, Adams, Boyett, Katie Sparrow Imperial Ball Room Browne, Goodfellow Broad Universe Rapid Fire 10:00 PM Lies and the Lying Liars Eileen Bell Reading Who Write them BU’s authors read from their 10:30 PM Van Name, Klages, November Kevin Andrew Murphy recent & upcoming works.
Sunday Garden Room Time Crystal Room Gold Room OTHER READINGS WFC Business Meeting Contemporary Rural 10:00 AM Gerald Warfield #2 Fantasy Valley Room Connolly, Gregory, Henderson,
10:30 AM Robins, Williams JoSelle Vanderhooft
Bad Food, Bad Clothes, 11:00 AM The Weird, Weird West Kim Vandervort and Bad Breath Boop, Carlson, Lindskold, Blackford, Brennan, Hobson, 11:30 AM . Mariotte, Van Pelt Brenda Jean Cooper Sperring, Stirling
12:00 PM
12:30 PM
1:00 PM
1:30 PM World Fantasy Banquet Followed by World Fantasy Awards 2:00 PM Regency Ball Room
2:30 PM
3:00 PM
3:30 PM
Awards Postmortem 4:00 PM Jenny Blackford, Peter Heck, Ellen Klages, Whenever Chris Roberson & Delia Sherman
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