Come See Me at Hal-Con!

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Although I won’t be attending the full weekend at Hal-Con, I will be making a couple of appearances on Sunday,  I will be offering up a solo presentation on alternate histories Sunday morning, and participating in the world-building panel put together by the Genre Writers of Atlantic Canada group Sunday afternoon.   Here is a schedule of Jules Verne Phantastical Society-themed and -sponsored presentations and workshops at Hal-Con:

Friday 26 Oct

1:00 p.m. room 501

Flash Fiction Workshop with Genre Writers of Atlantic Canada

2:00 p.m. room 103

Practical costuming with NERO

3:30 p.m. room 501

Tying History to your novel with Grossman and Wendig

[4:00 p.m. room 502

Librarians: the myth, the mystery]

6:00 p.m. room 106

Representation in SF and Fantasy, with Beiko and Little

6:30 p.m. room 501

Frankenstein at 200, with UKC and SMU professors! Happy birthday to the Modern Prometheus.

8:00 p.m. Grand Parade Square

Gothic Halifax Ghost ‘tour’ with Aulenback

Saturday 27 October

12:15 p.m. room 103

Cosplay and Diversity with Akakioga and Knightmage and Hamm

4:15 p.m. room 501

Ask a Linguist with Gardner

5:15 p.m. room 504

Tea Dueling Workshop with Aulenback

6:30 p.m. room 504

Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World and the beginning of science fiction with Morris

7:00 p.m. room 103

Adding lighting and electronics to cosplay with Clarke and Hirtle

8:00 p.m. level 5 ballroom demo space

Mylar’s Old Time Fashioned Radio Program Showe

Sunday 28 October

10:45 a.m. room 506

Pasts That Never Were with Boudreau

1:00 p.m. room 502

Steampunk and Alternate History with Thompson

2:00 p.m. room 504

Fictional World-building with Genre Writers of Atlantic Canada

4:45 p.m. room 106

Gothic Monsters: Then and Now with DU

If you can be there Friday, as a writer, I highly recommend the GWOAC flash fiction workshop (I helped with one of the handouts) and Tying History to your novel with Grossman and Wendig (I so wish I could attend that one.)

I’m looking forward to seeing some of you there!