Tuesday 11 March 2008

The schedule!!

Hi Everyone,

Just coming out of the other end of a heavy day of meetings, mostly about the future of literature provision in the East Midlands- unfortunately that's rather too long a story for this blog!!

However, something I am very pleased to post about will be the Alt.Fiction schedule, which is now at a publishable point. Of course this comes with the usual disclaimer that things may change due to unforeseen circumstances, but it should look a little something like this...

Darwin Suite
Readings and Q+A sessions (unless stated)

12:00-12:45
Graham Joyce and Peter Crowther
1:00-1:45
Publishing Panel featuring John Jarrold (John Jarrold Literary Agency), Sarah Hodgson (Voyager), George Mann (Solaris) and John Berlyne (Chair)
2:00-2:45
Adam Roberts and Eric Brown
3:00-3:45
Brian Lumley
4:00-4:45
Charlie Stross
4:45-6:15
Dinner Break including Signing Session, 4:45-5:30
6:15-7:00
Ramsey Campbell
7:15-8:00
Mike Carey
8:15-9:00
Michael Marshall Smith

Reception Suite
Panel discussions and Q+A sessions (unless stated)

12:00-12:45
Writing and the Internet featuring Lee Harris, Darren Turpin and Simon Spurrier
1:00-1:45
World-Building featuring Sarah Ash, Chaz Brenchley, Brian Ruckley and Juliet E McKenna
2:00-2:45
Building a Career featuring Simon Clark, Michael Marshall Smith and John Jarrold
3:00-3:45
Mass Book Launch featuring readings from Brian Ruckley, Philip Palmer, Simon Spurrier and Stephen Hunt
4:00-4:45
Horror featuring Simon Clark, Tim Lebbon, Mark Morris, Sarah Pinborough and Conrad Williams
4:45-6:15
Dinner break
6:15-7:00
Scriptwriting featuring Stephen Gallagher, Graham Joyce and Philip Palmer
7:15-8:00
Fantasy- Innovation vs Expectation featuring Juliet E McKenna, Chaz Brenchley, Stephen Hunt and Sarah Ash
8:15-9:00
Science-Fiction featuring Adam Roberts, Eric Brown, Tony Ballantyne and Justina Robson

45 Suite
Workshops

12:00-12:45
Christian Dunn on Editing Your Work
1:00-1:45
Tony Ballanytne on TBC
2:00-2:45
Kim Lakin-Smith on Dark Fantasy
3:00-3:45
Justina Robson on TBC
4:00-4:45
John Jarrold on An Agent’s Work

You'll notice that the signing session is new, and I'm hoping to have a confirmed list of participants in that some point next week. But all in all I think it's an exciting day of events and hopefully one that everyone can enjoy!

All comments welcome, good or bad, on the look of the programming...

Will be back soon, hopefully with some news on 2009!

Thanks a lot

Alex

2 comments:

Ed said...

Schedule looks goods. Not too much in the way of clashing timeslots, probably the most difficult part of the whole thing.

You sorting out the discounted accomodation next? Some people need to sort out where they're staying.

Chris said...

Damn, I was only going to come for the day... but the script-writing panel makes it difficult not to stay overnight.