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FantasyCon 2019

FRIDAY PROGRAMME 18th October 2019 Reception and Registration will be open from1pm to 7pm Dealers Hall will open at 1pm,and close at 6pm

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Waterhouse Reception Room

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SATURDAY PROGRAMME 19th October 2019 Reception and Registration will be open from 9am to 7pm Dealers Hall will open at 10am, and close at 7pm

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Waterhouse Kaffeeklatsch Invite to Eternity & Unsung Reception B2 -Paul Luna Launch -The Forgotten &Fantastical5 Stories (Always Northby Room Tremblay Harvester Series Launch -Mothers Milk Wonderland Launch (Titan) Vicki Jarrett) 45' Alien: 40 years later: The Franchises &GhostWriting: ABestiaryof Scotland: tale of a determined lone Just how doyou become a survivor facing impossible Horrorvengers Horrorsemble: Kelpies and Selkies, 13th Doctor: The Doctor is ghostwriter? What does it When the world is in peril, GOH Brownies and Bean- back! Exploring how the odds. Plus, some humans. Auditorium Horror Writers Association take to be and author that Does this iconic film still when society quakes at it's Interview - Nighe....A discussion of new series has riffed on writes for afranchise.What roots. Only one thing can Paul Room One and less familiar existing concepts but have thingsto teach us, and complexities do you need to which of Ripley's grand save us...Horror?!Yes! Tremblay creatures of Scottish explored themin new ways. navigate to be successful in HORROR! folklore and legend. daughters are leading the both? way today? Chronic illness in fiction.If Person or Pet? Sentient non- Austerity&Resitance. Workshop B4 -Using visual and Evil Overlords Neurodiversity & the humans, non-sentientpets, Against a backdrop of references for characters - Submission Etiquette. Good weren't enough, some Fantastic. There is a rich soulbonds, and free will in famine, taxation,space- Juliet McKenna. From dream Workshop B6 -crafting & and bad practice by writers, protagonists have just as engagement within sci-fiand fantasy stories. The panel corp monopolies, a Inspiration cast lists to visual short hand, marketing -Heide Goody. editors, publishers, etc. This big a challenge on their fantasy that considers the explore the muddy waters of squeeze on magic, or Room Two pinterest to sketches, here's Ideas for using crafting to item is pitched towards hands when it comes to pasts and futures of how we treat non-human Hunger Games how to envision your cast so support the marketing of newer writers and, indeed, their own health. &What neurodiversity within the characters, and the conscription, do the heroes you can do AWFUL thingsto your ficiton newer editors/judges / are the challenges of culture and fandom of the problematic issues of of fictionalways make their them. publishers creating fiction while living fantastic. consent tied into these stand against tyranny & with achronicillness? tropes what can we learn. The Revolution, Feasts forthe senses. Parenting and Childhood. Modern Graphic Fiction, YA genre fiction. Writing it, It's Hour Come Round At Art, Banquets, Fashion, The son in conflict with his Splash Pages and Speech reading it, what works, what Reviewing &Nonfiction. Self Care for Creatives: How Last-Genre Poetry. Genre Gardens and Music in Fiction familyis a classic, as is the Bubbles. They say apicture doesn’t, and how it overlaps What makes for interesting do you take care of yourself poetry is the dark heart of Innovation -how do you convey the orphan or lost heir.We look is worth a thousand words - with fiction marketed reviews? Why is non-fiction when your hobby becomes a the industry, influencing intangible? Our panel give at why they resonate, and our panel explore the best towards older and younger as valuable to a writeras job? When you're fittingyour everything but often Room Three examples of the best of these the effect of parenting on of fantasy comics and readers. What do you want fiction? The do’s and don’ts passion intospaces between overlooked.We discuss in literature, and discuss why fantasy narratives, graphic novels, and how to see moreof? What gives of being agoodreviewer& full-timework/children etc, or how poets and poetry have and how they work for the whichever generation the this artform can tell stories it a sustained home in our writing non-fiction. if you're living with disbilities? influenced the genre at reader protagonist belongs to! that the written word alone hearts? large cannot. Workshop B3 -Putting the science in Workshop B2 -Public speaking for authors. poetry -Clint Wastling: Reading: Reading: Phil Reading: Kaffeklatch Dalhanna Lucy Hounsom,&RJ Barker:Ohsureyou Everything, in the end, is structure. Benedict Sloman & Steven Poore PS Publishinglaunch -Rob Kaffeklatch B4 Una Room Four can sling words on a page, but public Sometimes that structure is stanza. Patrick Andrew and Shona Shearman, We all hear B3 -Ramsey Maccormack speaking? We know you've gotthe walk Sometimes it's molecules. It's always art. (space for Freudenberg Kinsella stories in the dark. Campbell -30' down, let us show you how to talk the talk. Let's show you the science of poetry and one more) the poetry of science.

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Waterhouse The Reception The Once & Future Moon FantasyCon FantasyCon Disco Room Black Shuck Launch Launch (Eibonvale) Raffle!! Next Generation Genre &HopepunkWhat PseudoPod Live: Welcome So! You mightbe in a Dungeons & Disorderly D3: Nostalgia: Childhood are they, and why do we to PseudoPod! The weekly horror movie: A group Vault of the Cow. The favourites have returned - need both of them right that's part of panel, including the TerrifyingSorcerer of Voltron,She-Ra, The Dark now? The panel explore the GOH the Escape ArtistsPodCast audience, designed to build TerrifyingEvil has been Auditorium Crystal.What's kept the conflict (or the hopeful Interview - Network. Join us for an a10pointsurvivalguideto defeated, the Sheep on the Room One appeal so strong? So cuddle?) between the Una introductionto EAPN and a tell if you're in a horror Borderlands sheared and what's next in line for subgenres, and offer their McCormack gloriously spooky story that, movie and how likely on a penned, and the Temple of reboot, and what's new that perspectives on the best like all our tales, we scale of one toten, you are Weevils properly we really don't want to miss grimdark and hopepunk promise you, is true... to survive it. fumigated. It is time to out on? fiction. venture into the Underdork!....

The A-to-Zof Audio books. We've goteverything you In awe of AudioDramas. Animal Kingdoms. From Fanfic to Profic. 5 ways needed to know as a Why they aren't audio Inspiration to Cats: fanfic can help you develop reader, writer, listener, books! Why they're a kind Room Two Does anthropomorphisfree your writingcareer, and the narrator or editorand never of podcast! How to write us from bias, or carry our 1wayitcan't thoughtto ask. But if you one! How to get involved in prejudices over? have questions, bring them making them! anyway!

Reinventing the Wheel. It’s Fantasy in Translation. the first meeting of the first There is So Much non- convention planning Hygge and Home Comforts. english fiction out there. committee.Join apanelof All the little things that make Innovation What are the challenges in life comfortable when Trade Crafts. Half speed date, half comfy craft & chat. Room Three con staff veterans for a Come and share your skills and learn something new. findingand sharing the best session that’s one half everything else is evil of global fantasy and panel game, one half overlords and armies horror? Kobyashi Maru test.

Reading: Reading: Peter Sutton, Tales for the Dark. One room: Dalhanna Allen Stroud Reading: Poetry Open Mic. Got the verses burning? several readers. Shivers and Ramsey Teika Marija Fanfic Open Mic. One mic! No continuity! Got stanza good togo? This is your Room Four & Paul Campbell & Let's go! chills as the darkness StJohn David &TimMajor chance. descends around the feeble Mackintosh Tallerman glow of torchlight.

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SUNDAY PROGRAMME 20th October 2019 Reception and Registration will be open from 10am to 12.30pm Dealers Hall will open at 10am, and close at 12.30pm

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Waterhouse British Awards Banquet Fantasy Close of Reception Awards proceedings Room Ceremony Book to filmtransitions: The good, the bad and the ‘we shall never talk about this Folklore&FairyTales:Why again’.What it's like froman Auditorium BritishFantasy Society AGM has there been such a boom author's perspective, and Room One recently in folk-horror?(And the difficulties of translating when will it end?) astorybetweenvery differentaudiences and media. Inspiration Workshop C1 - Workshop C2 -Writing Queer Workshop C3 -Short defamiliarisation as atoolfor Characters of History -Cheryl Fiction submissions -Shona Room Two writing-Georgina Bruce Morgan Kinsella & Tim Major Time Travel and Quantum Physics: From many worldsto Matriarchies & Patriarchies : How melding -How do challenges or the modern world with the the uncertainty principle, the panel discuss how physics shifts in power structures Innovation fantastical can produce the change our expectations of Room Three unexpected, the exciting, and can informour favourite timey- wimey narrative so it's a narrative? Why notbreak often much needed escapism free of binary thinking from the real world. enjoyable for the layman and believeable for the expert. altogether? Dalhanna Thornsof aBlackRose, & Room Four Quaestor Launch (Elsewhen)

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