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Can*Con 2019: The Conference on Canadian Content in Speculative Arts

10:00am EDT

WORKSHOP - Keep Your Players Hooked! w/ Geoff Gander (sign-up in advance) Salon D - 20 seats WORKSHOP - Medical Mistakes 101 w/ Melissa Yuan-Innes (sign-up in advance) Salon C - 20 seats

1:00pm EDT

WORKSHOP - Diving Into Fantasy Locations w/ Derek Newman-Stille (sign-up in advance) Salon D - 20 seats WORKSHOP - Draw Your Way Out w/ Julie E. Czerneda (sign-up in advance) Salon C - 20 seats

3:00pm EDT

Snakes and Ladders of Self-Publishing Salon E - 60 seats BFTW Recording with David Demchuk and Sandra Kasturi (closed recording - no audience) Salon A - Pitches, Blue Pencil, Meets

4:00pm EDT

Humanizing Agents Salon F - 60 seats Readings: 16:00 - TBD; 16:30 - Matt Moore Salon B - 20 seats So This is Your First Con Salon D - 20 seats Traumas and Triggers: Navigating the Dark Stuff Salon E - 60 seats

5:00pm EDT

Geology of the Solar System, Unpacked Salon C - 20 seats In Conversation: Lee Harris w/ Kate Heartfield Salon F - 60 seats Marvel's B-Team Are the True Heroes Salon E - 60 seats Navigating Hell and Infinity: Looking Back to Write Forward on Outer Space Salon D - 20 seats Pitch Sessions: ECW Press (sign up in advance online only - participants will have received confirmation email) Salon A - Pitches, Blue Pencil, Meets Readings: 17:00 - Derek Newman-Stille; 17:30 - Sylvain Neuvel Salon B - 20 seats

6:00pm EDT

18:00 - Opening Ceremonies; 18:30 - Aurora Pin Ceremony Salon F - 60 seats Blue Pencil Café - Charles de Lint (sign up in advance online only - participants will have received confirmation email) Salon A - Pitches, Blue Pencil, Meets Difficult Passages Salon B - 20 seats Gender in Spec Fiction Salon D - 20 seats How Not to Read Like a Grade Nine Student Forced to Recite Shakespeare Salon C - 20 seats Worldbuilding: Government and Politics Salon E - 60 seats

7:00pm EDT

Book Launch: The Quantum Garden by Derek Künsken Penthouse A - 75 seats Connect with ORWA Salon C - 20 seats Meet the Editor Sessions: Lee Harris (sign up in advance online only - participants will have received confirmation email) Salon A - Pitches, Blue Pencil, Meets Readings: 19:00 - S.M. Beiko; 19:30 - Charlie Jane Anders Salon B - 20 seats The Horrible Renaissance Salon D - 20 seats When To Tweet and When To Flip The Bird Salon E - 60 seats

8:00pm EDT

Fanon Service Salon E - 60 seats

9:00pm EDT

Bundoran Press Party + Book Launch for Ryan T. McFadden Con Suite Books & Beer Party Rook Creek Books Hosting Space

10:00am EDT

Hijacking YA Salon F - 60 seats Kaffeeklatsch w/ Editor GoH Lee Harris (SIGN UP IN ADVANCE ONLY AT REGISTRATION) Salon A - Pitches, Blue Pencil, Meets New Voices Reading Salon B - 20 seats The Art of the Cover Salon D - 20 seats What's New At Kobo? Salon C - 20 seats Who's Our Hero, Anyway? Salon E - 60 seats Science Literacy Track Inauguration and Coffee Penthouse A - 75 seats Bloody Mary and Books Rook Creek Books Hosting Space

11:00am EDT

Black Gate Magazine Interviews Charlie Jane Anders (w/ Brandon Crilly) Salon E - 60 seats Blue Pencil Café - Gerald Brandt, Melissa Yuan-Innes (sign up in advance online only - participants will have received confirmation email) Salon A - Pitches, Blue Pencil, Meets Is Big Data in an Arms Race? Salon D - 20 seats Readings: 11:00 - Kari Maaren 11:30 KT Bryski Salon B - 20 seats The Novella Is Now Salon F - 60 seats Witches on the Rise Salon C - 20 seats AI Keynote: Machine Learning Sees You Now Penthouse A - 75 seats

12:00pm EDT

Signing: Éric Desmarais, Charles de Lint Dealers Room An Expanse of Political Discourse Salon F - 60 seats Behind the Scenes of Grant Applications Salon D - 20 seats DAW's Editorial Process Salon E - 60 seats Imagination Architects: Building Worlds From Words Salon C - 20 seats Nothing Without Us Reading Salon B - 20 seats Pitch Sessions: ChiZine Publications (sign up in advance online only - participants will have received confirmation email) Salon A - Pitches, Blue Pencil, Meets Break Penthouse A - 75 seats

12:30pm EDT

Signing: Kate Heartfield Dealers Room

1:00pm EDT

Signing: Kevin Hearne, Ed Willett Dealers Room All Good Things Must Come to An End Salon D - 20 seats Dungeons and Dramas: Telling a Story in Tabletop Gaming Salon E - 60 seats Escaping Ageism in SFF Salon F - 60 seats Kobo One-on-One w/ Tara Cremin (SIGN UP IN ADVANCE ONLY AT REGISTRATION) Salon A - Pitches, Blue Pencil, Meets New Voices Reading Salon B - 20 seats What Professional Agencies Can Do For You Salon C - 20 seats Climate Keynote: It's Worse Than We Think Penthouse A - 75 seats

1:30pm EDT

Signing: Eric Choi, Tanya Huff, Matt Moore Dealers Room

2:00pm EDT

Signing: James Alan Gardner, Kelly Robson Dealers Room Ask Augur Magazine! Salon C - 20 seats Readings - 16:00 Charles de Lint; 16:30 Ryan T. McFadden Salon B - 20 seats What the Evolution of Barnes and Noble Means for Writers Salon F - 60 seats Workshop: Introduction to Interactive Narratives Salon D - 20 seats Writing and Resistance Salon E - 60 seats Economic Keynote: How Emerging Technologies Change Our Workforce, Our Economy & Our Community Penthouse A - 75 seats BFTW Recording with Leah Bobet and E. L. Chen (closed room - no audience) Salon A - Pitches, Blue Pencil, Meets

2:30pm EDT

Signing: Sylvain Neuvel Dealers Room

3:00pm EDT

Signing: TBD Dealers Room Back to the Future is a Bunch of Bull Salon E - 60 seats Dramatic Reading Hour! Salon C - 20 seats Return of Amazing Stories Magazine Salon F - 60 seats The Ace of Possibilities Salon D - 20 seats Works in Progress Readings Salon B - 20 seats Imagining a Zero-Carbon Future Penthouse A - 75 seats Launch of Nothing Without Us 3 Brasseurs Canada

3:30pm EDT

Signing: David Demchuk, J.M. Dover Dealers Room

4:00pm EDT

Signing: Julie E. Czerneda Dealers Room Difficult Passages Salon B - 20 seats Experts of Indie Publishing (SIGN UP IN ADVANCE ONLY AT REGISTRATION) Salon C - 20 seats Getting Industry Gossip That You Need: Conversation with Locus Associate Editor Arley Sorg Salon D - 20 seats NaNoWriMo Plan-In Salon A - Pitches, Blue Pencil, Meets Podcasting 201 Salon F - 60 seats The Realness of Fabulism Salon E - 60 seats Technology-Driven Labor Market Disruption: The New Industrial Revolution Penthouse A - 75 seats

5:00pm EDT

"SuperCrip": Disabling Comics Salon C - 20 seats Ask an Agent Sessions w/ DongWon Song (sign up in advance online only - participants will have received confirmation email) Salon A - Pitches, Blue Pencil, Meets CBC's Off the Shelf Live! Salon F - 60 seats Designing a Planet Live Salon D - 20 seats Readings: 17:00 - David Demchuk; 17:30 - Phoebe Barton Salon B - 20 seats The Glam Dames of Aurora Short Fiction Salon E - 60 seats

6:00pm EDT

Body Positivity is Slim Pickings Salon E - 60 seats Everything in the Past is Made Up Salon C - 20 seats Kobo One-on-One w/ Tara Cremin (SIGN UP IN ADVANCE ONLY AT REGISTRATION) Salon A - Pitches, Blue Pencil, Meets Taxes for Canadian Authors 2019 Salon D - 20 seats The Indescribable Salon B - 20 seats D&D One-Shot hosted by Gregory A. Wilson Salon F - 60 seats 2019 Aurora Award Ceremony Christchurch Cathedral's Great Hall

7:00pm EDT

Reading - Geoff Hart Salon B - 20 seats Criticizing Criticism Salon D - 20 seats Glorifying the Villain: From Joker to Punisher to Deadpool Salon E - 60 seats Works That Scare Us Salon C - 20 seats

8:00pm EDT

Advanced Marketing for Indie Authors Salon D - 20 seats Today's Golden Age of TV Salon C - 20 seats Writing Effective Dialogue Salon B - 20 seats

9:00pm EDT

ChiZine Publications Party Con Suite Karaoke Parté! Penthouse A - 75 seats

10:00am EDT

Advice to Aspiring Writers on the Craft Salon E - 60 seats Can Fantasy Escape The Real World? Salon F - 60 seats Pitch Sessions: Renaissance Press ((sign up in advance online only - participants will have received confirmation email) Salon A - Pitches, Blue Pencil, Meets The Stories You Love - Now With Diversity! Salon D - 20 seats Works in Progress Readings Salon B - 20 seats The Ongoing Permanent Depletion of Water Resources Penthouse A - 75 seats CSFFA General Meeting Salon C - 20 seats

11:00am EDT

Don't Look, Don't Speak: The Politics of Ability in Horror Salon F - 60 seats Kaffeeklatsch w/ Agent GoH DongWon Song (SIGN UP IN ADVANCE ONLY AT REGISTRATION) Salon A - Pitches, Blue Pencil, Meets Old Punk and New Punk Salon D - 20 seats Ready, Steady, Flash! Salon E - 60 seats Tesseracts 22: Reading and Q&A Salon B - 20 seats Data is the New Gold Rush Penthouse A - 75 seats

12:00pm EDT

Experts of Indie Publishing (SIGN UP IN ADVANCE ONLY AT REGISTRATION) Salon C - 20 seats Kaffeeklatsch w/ Author GoH Charlie Jane Anders (SIGN UP IN ADVANCE ONLY AT REGISTRATION) Salon A - Pitches, Blue Pencil, Meets Mental Health and Comics Salon D - 20 seats PodCastle Live: Now With Foley Effects! Penthouse A - 75 seats Readings: 12:00 - Éric Desmarais; 12:30 - Rebecca Simkin Salon B - 20 seats The Haunting of Hill House: 60 Years Later Salon E - 60 seats Break Penthouse A - 75 seats

1:00pm EDT

Blue Pencil Café - Charles de Lint (sign up in advance online only - participants will have received confirmation email) Salon A - Pitches, Blue Pencil, Meets CUFF Presents: Turkey Readings - Fran Skene Salon C - 20 seats Interested in Being On Programming Next Year? Dealers Room Love As A Catalyst Salon F - 60 seats Posthuman Subjectivities in Vassanji's Nostalgia - Presentation on South Asian and Post-Colonial Literature Salon D - 20 seats Readings: 13:00 - Hayden Trenholm; 13:30 - Sarah Tolmie Salon B - 20 seats Stealing From Outside SFF Salon E - 60 seats Cryptocurrencies to CryptoKitties and Beyond Penthouse A - 75 seats

2:00pm EDT

Blue Pencil Café - E.C. Bell, Matt Moore (sign up in advance online only - participants will have received confirmation email) Salon A - Pitches, Blue Pencil, Meets Hierarchy and Oppression in SFF Salon F - 60 seats Other Covenants Reading and Q&A Salon C - 20 seats Works in Progress Readings Salon B - 20 seats Worldbuilding Focus: Religion Salon E - 60 seats