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my Readercon schedule
Jul. 2nd, 2024 02:48 pmI'm really looking forward to this! (Though I sincerely hope I have an easier time flying to Boston than last year, with its weather-related woes.)
The Joys of the Truly Long Novel
Salon 4 Friday, July 12, 2024, 11:00 AM EDT
Kate Nepveu (m), Gwynne Garfinkle, Natalie Luhrs, Rich Horton, Storm Humbert
SFF loves its giant series, of course, but what about the very long solo novel? How do the pleasures and pitfalls of such novels vary from other lengths and plotting structures? How does serialization affect the length of a story people are willing to follow?
Graduating (?) to Novels from Short Stories
Salon 4 Friday, July 12, 2024, 2:00 PM EDT
A.C. Wise (m), Barbara Krasnoff, Elizabeth Bear, Gwynne Garfinkle, Karen Heuler
Reviewing Kelly Link's first novel, Amal El-Mohtar said, "A certain weight of expectation accrues on writers of short fiction who haven't produced a novel, as if the short story were merely the larval stage of longer work. No matter how celebrated the author and her stories, ... the sense persists: She will eventually graduate from the short form to the long." How can the harms of this expectation be avoided? Are there any benefits to it? Do novelists experience any inverse pressure to craft tight short stories?
The Cultural Potency of Audiobooks
Salon 3 Friday, July 12, 2024, 5:00 PM EDT
James Patrick Kelly (m), Gwynne Garfinkle, Jim Freund, Melissa Caruso, Sarah Smith
For as long as there have been stories to tell, people have listened to them with their ears. While many audiobook enthusiasts rave about the practicality of the audio format for multitasking, the format can also serve important cultural purposes, connecting us to stories on a more social (or parasocial) level, giving blind and other disabled readers another option for consuming books, and allowing readers to hear unfamiliar words and names as they were meant to be pronounced. Panelists will discuss the cultural impact of audiobook readership.
Reading: Gwynne Garfinkle
Salon C Saturday, July 13, 2024, 1:00 PM EDT
Gwynne Garfinkle reads from her forthcoming collection of short fiction, Sinking, Singing (Aqueduct Press).
The Expanding Universe of Speculative Poetry
Salon A Saturday, July 13, 2024, 3:00 PM EDT
Lisa M. Bradley, Akua Lezli HOPE, Gwynne Garfinkle, Romie Stott, Wendy Van Camp
Although mainstream poets have long included fantastika within their bodies of work, recognition of poetry in genre spaces has grown in the half-century since Suzette Haden Elgin's 1978 founding of the SF Poetry Association and the Rhysling Awards. Since then, the increasing crossover that witnessed the birth of slipstream literature has also fostered the emergence of speculative poetry as an active pursuit and not a post-facto label. Our panelists will survey the current landscape of speculative poetry, and speculate about where we're headed next.
The Works of Amal El-Mohtar
Salon A Sunday, July 14, 2024, 10:00 AM EDT
C.S.E. Cooney, Gwynne Garfinkle, Max Gladstone, RB Lemberg, Sarah Smith
Author, poet, editor of Goblin Fruit magazine, SF reviewer for the NY Times Book Review, and longtime friend of Readercon, GOH Amal El-Mohtar has made multifarious contributions to our genres and received a variety of awards: a Hugo for This is How You Lose the Time War (2019), co-written with Max Gladstone; Nebula for "Seasons of Glass and Iron" (2016); Locus for "The Truth About Owls" (2014), and three Rhyslings for Best Short Poem. Please join us as we take in the wide expanses of El-Mohtar country. To quote a certain viral tweeter: "I'm very extremely serious."
The Joys of the Truly Long Novel
Salon 4 Friday, July 12, 2024, 11:00 AM EDT
Kate Nepveu (m), Gwynne Garfinkle, Natalie Luhrs, Rich Horton, Storm Humbert
SFF loves its giant series, of course, but what about the very long solo novel? How do the pleasures and pitfalls of such novels vary from other lengths and plotting structures? How does serialization affect the length of a story people are willing to follow?
Graduating (?) to Novels from Short Stories
Salon 4 Friday, July 12, 2024, 2:00 PM EDT
A.C. Wise (m), Barbara Krasnoff, Elizabeth Bear, Gwynne Garfinkle, Karen Heuler
Reviewing Kelly Link's first novel, Amal El-Mohtar said, "A certain weight of expectation accrues on writers of short fiction who haven't produced a novel, as if the short story were merely the larval stage of longer work. No matter how celebrated the author and her stories, ... the sense persists: She will eventually graduate from the short form to the long." How can the harms of this expectation be avoided? Are there any benefits to it? Do novelists experience any inverse pressure to craft tight short stories?
The Cultural Potency of Audiobooks
Salon 3 Friday, July 12, 2024, 5:00 PM EDT
James Patrick Kelly (m), Gwynne Garfinkle, Jim Freund, Melissa Caruso, Sarah Smith
For as long as there have been stories to tell, people have listened to them with their ears. While many audiobook enthusiasts rave about the practicality of the audio format for multitasking, the format can also serve important cultural purposes, connecting us to stories on a more social (or parasocial) level, giving blind and other disabled readers another option for consuming books, and allowing readers to hear unfamiliar words and names as they were meant to be pronounced. Panelists will discuss the cultural impact of audiobook readership.
Reading: Gwynne Garfinkle
Salon C Saturday, July 13, 2024, 1:00 PM EDT
Gwynne Garfinkle reads from her forthcoming collection of short fiction, Sinking, Singing (Aqueduct Press).
The Expanding Universe of Speculative Poetry
Salon A Saturday, July 13, 2024, 3:00 PM EDT
Lisa M. Bradley, Akua Lezli HOPE, Gwynne Garfinkle, Romie Stott, Wendy Van Camp
Although mainstream poets have long included fantastika within their bodies of work, recognition of poetry in genre spaces has grown in the half-century since Suzette Haden Elgin's 1978 founding of the SF Poetry Association and the Rhysling Awards. Since then, the increasing crossover that witnessed the birth of slipstream literature has also fostered the emergence of speculative poetry as an active pursuit and not a post-facto label. Our panelists will survey the current landscape of speculative poetry, and speculate about where we're headed next.
The Works of Amal El-Mohtar
Salon A Sunday, July 14, 2024, 10:00 AM EDT
C.S.E. Cooney, Gwynne Garfinkle, Max Gladstone, RB Lemberg, Sarah Smith
Author, poet, editor of Goblin Fruit magazine, SF reviewer for the NY Times Book Review, and longtime friend of Readercon, GOH Amal El-Mohtar has made multifarious contributions to our genres and received a variety of awards: a Hugo for This is How You Lose the Time War (2019), co-written with Max Gladstone; Nebula for "Seasons of Glass and Iron" (2016); Locus for "The Truth About Owls" (2014), and three Rhyslings for Best Short Poem. Please join us as we take in the wide expanses of El-Mohtar country. To quote a certain viral tweeter: "I'm very extremely serious."
