ellenkushner | My WisCon Schedule

So pleased to be heading back to WisCon this year - we missed the last two, which seems so wrong, since WisCon's been one of the highlights of my year for, well, quite a long time. Hope to see many friends there!

Here are the panels/parties/readings I'm assigned to - but feel free to stop me in the hallway any time for a chat (or even to sign a book or two); if I'm in a hurry, I'll just say so, and no hard feelings. Don't be shy! (Hmm, no Bordertown panels this year....I'd better hurry up & order my BORDERTOWN LIVES T-shirt so everyone knows where I stand!)

The Young Victorians : GROUP READING		Fri, 4:00–5:15 pm	Michelangelos
Tiffany Trent, Franny Billingsley, Ellen Kushner, Caroline Stevermer
From the corridors of the Museum of Unnatural History to the Chime Child's swamps, through letters written in a London where the Experimental Arts are not quite the thing for a gentleman to practice . . . come hear what kind of mischief young adults can get up to when the corsets are tight and the passions are high! Kushner & Stevermer will delight your ears contrapuntally with the letters they wrote in character for their story in the forthcoming QUEEN VICTORIA'S BOOK OF SPELLS; Billingsley's breathtaking CHIME was a Norton & NBA nominee; Trent's forthcoming THE UNNATURALISTS is hailed by Tamora Pierce as "heart-wrenching, magical and fascinating."
Crossing boundaries and bending genres: Meet the Interstitial Arts Foundation		Sat, 2:30–3:45 pm	Caucus
Larissa N. Niec, Ellen Kushner, Rose Lemberg, Shira Lipkin, JoSelle Vanderhooft
The Interstitial Arts Foundation (IAF) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the study, support, and promotion of interstitial art: literature, music, visual and performance art found in-between categories and genres--art that crosses borders. One of the specific goals of the IAF is to foster conversations among artists, academics, critics, and enthusiasts--conversations in which art of all types can be spoken of as a continuum, rather than as a series of hermetically sealed genres. Currently, the IAF is seeking to grow and develop new projects. In this town meeting-style session, we seek input from (1) artists and writers about ways in which the IAF might be of value to them as they seek to promote their boundary-crossing work, and (2) readers and enthusiasts about needs they perceive for the support of literature and other art forms that expand the conventional boundaries of gender and other restricting borders.
I Didn't Really Mean to Write a Series	participant	Sat, 9:00–10:15 pm	Caucus
Cassie Alexander, Alex Bledsoe, Dorothy Hearst, Ellen Kushner
A novel sometimes engenders more stories in the same universe, with at least some of the same characters. Did you mean to write a series from the beginning? Or did the world take over your computer and the characters refuse to leave? Are series a good way to tell a story? What is the market like for such creations?
"Beyond Binary: Genderqueer & Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction" Book-Party		Sun, 8:45 pm	Room 634
Keyan Bowes, Brit Mandelo, Keffy R. M. Kehrli, Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman
This release party for the anthology "Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction" will include readings by contributors, plus tea and cookies.
The SignOut (scheduled)		Mon, 11:30 am–12:45 pm	Capitol/Wisconsin

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dramaturgca.livejournal.com

Please oh please come to GeekGirlCon this year?

ellen-kushner.livejournal.com

Dates? URL?

And any chance of their formally Inviting us & comping or paying our way somehow?

(Love your icon!)

http://www.geekgirlcon.com/announcing-geekgirlcon-2012/

I don't know about formal invitation, but the people running it are very friendly and open to guests!

(I do love nerdiness)