My Readercon Schedule: July 15-17
Friday July 15
2:00 PM NH "Until Forgiveness Comes" group reading. K. Tempest Bradford, Jim Freund, Andrea Hairston, Mary Robinette Kowal, Ellen Kushner, Pan Morigan. A live performance of the radio play based on K. Tempest Bradford's story "Until Forgiveness Comes."
6:00 PM NH Teeth group reading. Steve Berman, Suzy Charnas, Ellen Datlow, Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman, Kaaron Warren.
Contributors to Teeth, a YA vampire anthology, read selections from their work.
7:00 PM NH Reading. Ellen Kushner. Can I do all of "The Man with the Knives" in (BTW, Henry Wessels will be selling the remaining 10 or so copies at the convention. If you buy, I will sign!)
Saturday July 16
2:00 PM G Gender and Sexual Identities in Speculative Fiction. Steve Berman (moderator), Ellen Kushner.
With her groundbreaking novel Swordspoint, Ellen Kushner unabashedly offers readers a story of daring men who happen to be anything but heterosexual. Over the years, Kushner has never been shy to explore gender and sexual identity roles in her fiction (both novel-length work and short stories). For her efforts, she has been recognized by the LGBT community, been named a Gaylaxicon Guest of Honor (with her wife, Delia Sherman), and inspired countless readers and a younger generation of authors. Steve Berman conducts an interview and discussion with Kushner about queer characters in speculative fiction, including such topics as the role of author as activist and the change of perception of queer fiction among contemporary readers.
3:00 PM G Matrilineal Heritage. Gemma Files, Eileen Gunn, Victoria Janssen, Ellen Kushner (leader), Chris Moriarty.
Diana Wynne Jones and Joanna Russ were two of the women who greatly inspired other women to write speculative fiction. Who are their heirs? And who are their heirs inspiring?
Sunday July 17
10:00 AM RI Interstitial Arts Foundation Town Meeting.
The IAF is a group of "Artists Without Borders" who celebrate art that is made in the interstices between genres and categories. It is art that flourishes in the borderlands between different disciplines, mediums, and cultures. The IAF provides border-crossing artists and art scholars a forum and a focus for their efforts. Rather than creating a new genre with new borders, they support the free movement of artists across the borders of their choice. They support the development of a new vocabulary with which to view and critique border-crossing works, and they celebrate the large community of interstitial artists working in North America and around the world. The annual Interstitial Arts Foundation Town Meeting at Readercon is an exciting opportunity to catch up with the IAF and its many supporters, hear about what they're doing to support the interstitial art community in 2011, offer ideas for future projects, and contribute your voice to the development of interstitial art.
2:00 PM RI Welcome Back to Bordertown. Alaya Dawn Johnson, Ellen Kushner (leader), Patricia McKillip, Delia Sherman.
In 1986, Terri Windling created Bordertown, a shared-world anthology that would change the world of fantasy forever. Instead of the forests and mountains of Tolkien's Middle-Earth, elves and humans met on the seedy streets of a modern city that had sprung up on the border of our world and the newly returned Elfland. She invited emerging young authors like Charles de Lint, Emma Bull, and Ellen Kushner to come play on those streets. Teenage kids like Cory Doctorow and Holly Black devoured those books, and claim them as influences. Many people say the roots of urban fantasy are there. Kushner and Black have just published Welcome to Bordertown, a new collection of stories from a mix of the original authors and the "kids" who once dreamed of going there. Everyone on this panel is in the new anthology. Come hear their stories and share your own!
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In the Boston area but not coming to Readercon (why not??)? Thursday night we're doing a group reading/signing for NAKED CITY at Porter Square Books.
2:00 PM NH "Until Forgiveness Comes" group reading. K. Tempest Bradford, Jim Freund, Andrea Hairston, Mary Robinette Kowal, Ellen Kushner, Pan Morigan. A live performance of the radio play based on K. Tempest Bradford's story "Until Forgiveness Comes."
6:00 PM NH Teeth group reading. Steve Berman, Suzy Charnas, Ellen Datlow, Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman, Kaaron Warren.
Contributors to Teeth, a YA vampire anthology, read selections from their work.
7:00 PM NH Reading. Ellen Kushner. Can I do all of "The Man with the Knives" in (BTW, Henry Wessels will be selling the remaining 10 or so copies at the convention. If you buy, I will sign!)
Saturday July 16
2:00 PM G Gender and Sexual Identities in Speculative Fiction. Steve Berman (moderator), Ellen Kushner.
With her groundbreaking novel Swordspoint, Ellen Kushner unabashedly offers readers a story of daring men who happen to be anything but heterosexual. Over the years, Kushner has never been shy to explore gender and sexual identity roles in her fiction (both novel-length work and short stories). For her efforts, she has been recognized by the LGBT community, been named a Gaylaxicon Guest of Honor (with her wife, Delia Sherman), and inspired countless readers and a younger generation of authors. Steve Berman conducts an interview and discussion with Kushner about queer characters in speculative fiction, including such topics as the role of author as activist and the change of perception of queer fiction among contemporary readers.
3:00 PM G Matrilineal Heritage. Gemma Files, Eileen Gunn, Victoria Janssen, Ellen Kushner (leader), Chris Moriarty.
Diana Wynne Jones and Joanna Russ were two of the women who greatly inspired other women to write speculative fiction. Who are their heirs? And who are their heirs inspiring?
Sunday July 17
10:00 AM RI Interstitial Arts Foundation Town Meeting.
The IAF is a group of "Artists Without Borders" who celebrate art that is made in the interstices between genres and categories. It is art that flourishes in the borderlands between different disciplines, mediums, and cultures. The IAF provides border-crossing artists and art scholars a forum and a focus for their efforts. Rather than creating a new genre with new borders, they support the free movement of artists across the borders of their choice. They support the development of a new vocabulary with which to view and critique border-crossing works, and they celebrate the large community of interstitial artists working in North America and around the world. The annual Interstitial Arts Foundation Town Meeting at Readercon is an exciting opportunity to catch up with the IAF and its many supporters, hear about what they're doing to support the interstitial art community in 2011, offer ideas for future projects, and contribute your voice to the development of interstitial art.
2:00 PM RI Welcome Back to Bordertown. Alaya Dawn Johnson, Ellen Kushner (leader), Patricia McKillip, Delia Sherman.
In 1986, Terri Windling created Bordertown, a shared-world anthology that would change the world of fantasy forever. Instead of the forests and mountains of Tolkien's Middle-Earth, elves and humans met on the seedy streets of a modern city that had sprung up on the border of our world and the newly returned Elfland. She invited emerging young authors like Charles de Lint, Emma Bull, and Ellen Kushner to come play on those streets. Teenage kids like Cory Doctorow and Holly Black devoured those books, and claim them as influences. Many people say the roots of urban fantasy are there. Kushner and Black have just published Welcome to Bordertown, a new collection of stories from a mix of the original authors and the "kids" who once dreamed of going there. Everyone on this panel is in the new anthology. Come hear their stories and share your own!
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In the Boston area but not coming to Readercon (why not??)? Thursday night we're doing a group reading/signing for NAKED CITY at Porter Square Books.