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Friday
, October 18
Con Suite
9:00pm •
Bundoran Press Party + Book Launch for Ryan T. McFadden
Penthouse A - 75 seats
7:00pm •
Book Launch: The Quantum Garden by Derek Künsken
Rook Creek Books Hosting Space
9:00pm •
Books & Beer Party
Salon A - Pitches, Blue Pencil, Meets
3:00pm •
BFTW Recording with David Demchuk and Sandra Kasturi (closed recording - no audience)
5:00pm •
Pitch Sessions: ECW Press (sign up in advance online only - participants will have received confirmation email)
6:00pm •
Blue Pencil Café - Charles de Lint (sign up in advance online only - participants will have received confirmation email)
7:00pm •
Meet the Editor Sessions: Lee Harris (sign up in advance online only - participants will have received confirmation email)
Salon B - 20 seats
4:00pm •
Readings: 16:00 - TBD; 16:30 - Matt Moore
5:00pm •
Readings: 17:00 - Derek Newman-Stille; 17:30 - Sylvain Neuvel
6:00pm •
Difficult Passages
7:00pm •
Readings: 19:00 - S.M. Beiko; 19:30 - Charlie Jane Anders
Salon C - 20 seats
10:00am •
WORKSHOP - Medical Mistakes 101 w/ Melissa Yuan-Innes (sign-up in advance)
1:00pm •
WORKSHOP - Draw Your Way Out w/ Julie E. Czerneda (sign-up in advance)
5:00pm •
Geology of the Solar System, Unpacked
6:00pm •
How Not to Read Like a Grade Nine Student Forced to Recite Shakespeare
7:00pm •
Connect with ORWA
Salon D - 20 seats
10:00am •
WORKSHOP - Keep Your Players Hooked! w/ Geoff Gander (sign-up in advance)
1:00pm •
WORKSHOP - Diving Into Fantasy Locations w/ Derek Newman-Stille (sign-up in advance)
4:00pm •
So This is Your First Con
5:00pm •
Navigating Hell and Infinity: Looking Back to Write Forward on Outer Space
6:00pm •
Gender in Spec Fiction
7:00pm •
The Horrible Renaissance
Salon E - 60 seats
3:00pm •
Snakes and Ladders of Self-Publishing
4:00pm •
Traumas and Triggers: Navigating the Dark Stuff
5:00pm •
Marvel's B-Team Are the True Heroes
6:00pm •
Worldbuilding: Government and Politics
7:00pm •
When To Tweet and When To Flip The Bird
8:00pm •
Fanon Service
Salon F - 60 seats
4:00pm •
Humanizing Agents
5:00pm •
In Conversation: Lee Harris w/ Kate Heartfield
6:00pm •
18:00 - Opening Ceremonies; 18:30 - Aurora Pin Ceremony
Saturday
, October 19
3 Brasseurs Canada
3:00pm •
Launch of Nothing Without Us
Christchurch Cathedral's Great Hall
6:00pm •
2019 Aurora Award Ceremony
Con Suite
9:00pm •
ChiZine Publications Party
Dealers Room
12:00pm •
Signing: Éric Desmarais, Charles de Lint
12:30pm •
Signing: Kate Heartfield
1:00pm •
Signing: Kevin Hearne, Ed Willett
1:30pm •
Signing: Eric Choi, Tanya Huff, Matt Moore
2:00pm •
Signing: James Alan Gardner, Kelly Robson
2:30pm •
Signing: Sylvain Neuvel
3:00pm •
Signing: TBD
3:30pm •
Signing: David Demchuk, J.M. Dover
4:00pm •
Signing: Julie E. Czerneda
Penthouse A - 75 seats
10:00am •
Science Literacy Track Inauguration and Coffee
11:00am •
AI Keynote: Machine Learning Sees You Now
12:00pm •
Break
1:00pm •
Climate Keynote: It's Worse Than We Think
2:00pm •
Economic Keynote: How Emerging Technologies Change Our Workforce, Our Economy & Our Community
3:00pm •
Imagining a Zero-Carbon Future
4:00pm •
Technology-Driven Labor Market Disruption: The New Industrial Revolution
9:00pm •
Karaoke Parté!
Rook Creek Books Hosting Space
10:00am •
Bloody Mary and Books
Salon A - Pitches, Blue Pencil, Meets
10:00am •
Kaffeeklatsch w/ Editor GoH Lee Harris (SIGN UP IN ADVANCE ONLY AT REGISTRATION)
11:00am •
Blue Pencil Café - Gerald Brandt, Melissa Yuan-Innes (sign up in advance online only - participants will have received confirmation email)
12:00pm •
Pitch Sessions: ChiZine Publications (sign up in advance online only - participants will have received confirmation email)
1:00pm •
Kobo One-on-One w/ Tara Cremin (SIGN UP IN ADVANCE ONLY AT REGISTRATION)
2:00pm •
BFTW Recording with Leah Bobet and E. L. Chen (closed room - no audience)
4:00pm •
NaNoWriMo Plan-In
5:00pm •
Ask an Agent Sessions w/ DongWon Song (sign up in advance online only - participants will have received confirmation email)
6:00pm •
Kobo One-on-One w/ Tara Cremin (SIGN UP IN ADVANCE ONLY AT REGISTRATION)
Salon B - 20 seats
10:00am •
New Voices Reading
11:00am •
Readings: 11:00 - Kari Maaren 11:30 KT Bryski
12:00pm •
Nothing Without Us Reading
1:00pm •
New Voices Reading
2:00pm •
Readings - 16:00 Charles de Lint; 16:30 Ryan T. McFadden
3:00pm •
Works in Progress Readings
4:00pm •
Difficult Passages
5:00pm •
Readings: 17:00 - David Demchuk; 17:30 - Phoebe Barton
6:00pm •
The Indescribable
7:00pm •
Reading - Geoff Hart
8:00pm •
Writing Effective Dialogue
Salon C - 20 seats
10:00am •
What's New At Kobo?
11:00am •
Witches on the Rise
12:00pm •
Imagination Architects: Building Worlds From Words
1:00pm •
What Professional Agencies Can Do For You
2:00pm •
Ask Augur Magazine!
3:00pm •
Dramatic Reading Hour!
4:00pm •
Experts of Indie Publishing (SIGN UP IN ADVANCE ONLY AT REGISTRATION)
5:00pm •
"SuperCrip": Disabling Comics
6:00pm •
Everything in the Past is Made Up
7:00pm •
Works That Scare Us
8:00pm •
Today's Golden Age of TV
Salon D - 20 seats
10:00am •
The Art of the Cover
11:00am •
Is Big Data in an Arms Race?
12:00pm •
Behind the Scenes of Grant Applications
1:00pm •
All Good Things Must Come to An End
2:00pm •
Workshop: Introduction to Interactive Narratives
3:00pm •
The Ace of Possibilities
4:00pm •
Getting Industry Gossip That You Need: Conversation with Locus Associate Editor Arley Sorg
5:00pm •
Designing a Planet Live
6:00pm •
Taxes for Canadian Authors 2019
7:00pm •
Criticizing Criticism
8:00pm •
Advanced Marketing for Indie Authors
Salon E - 60 seats
10:00am •
Who's Our Hero, Anyway?
11:00am •
Black Gate Magazine Interviews Charlie Jane Anders (w/ Brandon Crilly)
12:00pm •
DAW's Editorial Process
1:00pm •
Dungeons and Dramas: Telling a Story in Tabletop Gaming
2:00pm •
Writing and Resistance
3:00pm •
Back to the Future is a Bunch of Bull
4:00pm •
The Realness of Fabulism
5:00pm •
The Glam Dames of Aurora Short Fiction
6:00pm •
Body Positivity is Slim Pickings
7:00pm •
Glorifying the Villain: From Joker to Punisher to Deadpool
Salon F - 60 seats
10:00am •
Hijacking YA
11:00am •
The Novella Is Now
12:00pm •
An Expanse of Political Discourse
1:00pm •
Escaping Ageism in SFF
2:00pm •
What the Evolution of Barnes and Noble Means for Writers
3:00pm •
Return of Amazing Stories Magazine
4:00pm •
Podcasting 201
5:00pm •
CBC's Off the Shelf Live!
6:00pm •
D&D One-Shot hosted by Gregory A. Wilson
Sunday
, October 20
Dealers Room
1:00pm •
Interested in Being On Programming Next Year?
Penthouse A - 75 seats
10:00am •
The Ongoing Permanent Depletion of Water Resources
11:00am •
Data is the New Gold Rush
12:00pm •
Break
12:00pm •
PodCastle Live: Now With Foley Effects!
1:00pm •
Cryptocurrencies to CryptoKitties and Beyond
Salon A - Pitches, Blue Pencil, Meets
10:00am •
Pitch Sessions: Renaissance Press ((sign up in advance online only - participants will have received confirmation email)
11:00am •
Kaffeeklatsch w/ Agent GoH DongWon Song (SIGN UP IN ADVANCE ONLY AT REGISTRATION)
12:00pm •
Kaffeeklatsch w/ Author GoH Charlie Jane Anders (SIGN UP IN ADVANCE ONLY AT REGISTRATION)
1:00pm •
Blue Pencil Café - Charles de Lint (sign up in advance online only - participants will have received confirmation email)
2:00pm •
Blue Pencil Café - E.C. Bell, Matt Moore (sign up in advance online only - participants will have received confirmation email)
Salon B - 20 seats
10:00am •
Works in Progress Readings
11:00am •
Tesseracts 22: Reading and Q&A
12:00pm •
Readings: 12:00 - Éric Desmarais; 12:30 - Rebecca Simkin
1:00pm •
Readings: 13:00 - Hayden Trenholm; 13:30 - Sarah Tolmie
2:00pm •
Works in Progress Readings
Salon C - 20 seats
10:00am •
CSFFA General Meeting
12:00pm •
Experts of Indie Publishing (SIGN UP IN ADVANCE ONLY AT REGISTRATION)
1:00pm •
CUFF Presents: Turkey Readings - Fran Skene
2:00pm •
Other Covenants Reading and Q&A
Salon D - 20 seats
10:00am •
The Stories You Love - Now With Diversity!
11:00am •
Old Punk and New Punk
12:00pm •
Mental Health and Comics
1:00pm •
Posthuman Subjectivities in Vassanji's Nostalgia - Presentation on South Asian and Post-Colonial Literature
Salon E - 60 seats
10:00am •
Advice to Aspiring Writers on the Craft
11:00am •
Ready, Steady, Flash!
12:00pm •
The Haunting of Hill House: 60 Years Later
1:00pm •
Stealing From Outside SFF
2:00pm •
Worldbuilding Focus: Religion
Salon F - 60 seats
10:00am •
Can Fantasy Escape The Real World?
11:00am •
Don't Look, Don't Speak: The Politics of Ability in Horror
1:00pm •
Love As A Catalyst
2:00pm •
Hierarchy and Oppression in SFF
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, October 19
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, October 20
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