Sirens 2010, now with wings!
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Our second year of Sirens, a retreat-style conference on women in fantasy literature, will take place October 7-10, 2010, in the most gorgeous hotel (WITH A LIBRARY) in Vail, Colorado. This year's guests of honor are Holly Black, Terri Windling and Marie Brennan, and yes, we are going to talk power, tricks and all things fey -- but we're also ( Read more... )
Our second year of Sirens, a retreat-style conference on women in fantasy literature, will take place October 7-10, 2010, in the most gorgeous hotel (WITH A LIBRARY) in Vail, Colorado. This year's guests of honor are Holly Black, Terri Windling and Marie Brennan, and yes, we are going to talk power, tricks and all things fey -- but we're also ( Read more... )
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I have a few ideas for proposals, but I have no idea how I'll be in executing them. An extremely viable topic I've been thinking about for a while (and have seen discussed on the journals of sartorias and janni) are the subsetsof fantasy--paranormal, folkloric, high, fantasy of manners, space opera (?) etc. there seems to be so many!--versus sci-fi, which seems to be more narrowly defined. And what the differences really are, and if marketing has constructed sci-fi and fantasy in some new way. I think there's a pretty apparent gender line here, but this idea is nebulous in my head and might work best as a panel. I'm not sure if I'd even want to be on this panel! just throwing the idea out there.
The other one I had was about reading experience and the writer/reader contract, after reading Tam Lin and Fire and Hemlock. Who's the "main audience" for a book, and who's excluded? Both of those books assume prior literary knowledge, both of them are tentaively labelled YA, though Tam Lin can arguably be in that space between YA and ( ... )
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I think both are really interesting. :) I'm still stuck on your idea from last year, too, about book covers, especially with the recent issues with publishers putting white girls on the covers of books with non-white protagonists.
Ha. How many things can I get you to present? :P
Also, if you have any interest in non-Western faerie folklore, we have someone on the conference message boards looking for panelists.
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And I like my book covers thing too, still, though I didn't have time to put it together last year. I kind of have the presentation/lecture in my head already, starting off with "We ALL judge books by their covers but 1) what does this mean and b) what happens when we do". And I keep returning to a collage of Stardust covers, because there are so many, and they're all designed to appeal to different groups of people. Of course, depictions of women in the fantasy covers of old is a good topic, and so are the newer covers of Liar and Magic Under Glass.
I think my minimum goal is to do one lecture and one round table, I'm hoping some more distinguished others take my first panel topic XD
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxSwr130ptw
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