World Fantasy
Nov. 5th, 2009 12:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynnegaThis was my first World Fantasy, and I think it was the first con I've ever attended where I actually met up with everyone I'd planned to see. It was a weekend of great conversations.
I had a lot of fun moderating the speculative poetry reading thatsamhenderson (who wasn't at the con) organized. Tina Connolly, Camille Alexa, Shweta Narayan, Joseph McDermott, Phyllis Holiday, David Lunde, and Larry Hammer read, and it was a great mix of different poetic styles.
I'm not going to write up all the panels and readings I attended. A couple of highlights: Ellen Klages read her chilling YA story "Singing on a Star." N.K. Jemisin read from her upcoming novel The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and ended at such a suspenseful point, I wanted to yell, "But what happens next?" I guess I'll have to wait until February to find out.
On Saturday I took a little break from the con for lunch and Ryan's Hope conversation withwillowgreen. Saturday night I read poems at the Broad Universe Rapid-fire Reading, which was well-attended and very enjoyable. On Sunday, after the awards banquet, I went to Barnes and Noble for a reading for the brand-new Interfictions 2 anthology (thanks to Ellen Kushner, who organized car rides for me and various participants and audience members!).
The food at the hotel was rather jawdroppingly overpriced, but I did enjoy having sushi room service!
I had a lot of fun moderating the speculative poetry reading that
samhenderson (who wasn't at the con) organized. Tina Connolly, Camille Alexa, Shweta Narayan, Joseph McDermott, Phyllis Holiday, David Lunde, and Larry Hammer read, and it was a great mix of different poetic styles.I'm not going to write up all the panels and readings I attended. A couple of highlights: Ellen Klages read her chilling YA story "Singing on a Star." N.K. Jemisin read from her upcoming novel The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and ended at such a suspenseful point, I wanted to yell, "But what happens next?" I guess I'll have to wait until February to find out.
On Saturday I took a little break from the con for lunch and Ryan's Hope conversation with
willowgreen. Saturday night I read poems at the Broad Universe Rapid-fire Reading, which was well-attended and very enjoyable. On Sunday, after the awards banquet, I went to Barnes and Noble for a reading for the brand-new Interfictions 2 anthology (thanks to Ellen Kushner, who organized car rides for me and various participants and audience members!).The food at the hotel was rather jawdroppingly overpriced, but I did enjoy having sushi room service!
