Oh yeah. My WisCon 31 schedule.

[truepenny]

FEY FAERY FICTION I(READING GROUP) (Readings)
Friday, 4:00-5:15 p.m. in Conference Room 2

JoSelle Vanderhooft, Melissa Scott, Sarah Monette, Aynjel Kaye, Steve Berman

SM in Feminist Science Fiction
Saturday, 1:00-2:15 p.m.

M: Lori Selke, Sarah Monette, Catherine Lundoff, Ian K. Hagemann

Although some feminists in the 1970s stated with great assurance that "no woman would ever want to be dominated and no woman would ever want to dominate another," the experience of most SM practitioners is quite different, with some women quite enjoying all sides of power exchange. There have been a lot of unequal relationships in feminist fiction, from nonconsensual relationships such as those in Suzy McKee Charnas' "Holdfast" series and Candas Jane Dorsey's novel _Black Wine_ to more ambiguous relationships such as in Samuel Delany's "Neveryona" series and Susan Matthews' ""Andrej the Torturer" series, to clearly consensual relationships in some slash fiction and other erotica such as Cecilia Tan's "Telepaths Don't Need Safewords". This panel will talk a bit about what SM is and isn't, what consensuality is and isn't, and then go into an overivew of the literature including what has literary value, what has political merit, and what's hot and sexy enough that one might need to turn the pages with one hand. There will also probably be some time to talk about more traditional plots which have a lot of SM elements in them even if those elements aren't necessarily identifiable to non-kinky people.

Wicked!
Saturday, 2:30-3:45 p.m.

M: Janine Ellen Young, Keith M. Willenson, Jennifer Stevenson, Sarah Monette, Penny Hill

Evil queens, cruel step-mothers; incestuous fathers, despicable princes: In fairy tales, it seems that good girls haven't got a chance. Are there authority figures who aren't venomous? And should we trust any of *them*, either? A discussion of the relation between gender and malice and parenting in fantasy and fairy tale.

How To Do Good Work in High Fantasy
Sunday, 4:00-5:15 p.m.

M: Delia Sherman, Jennifer W. Spirko, Sarah Monette, Kelly D. Link, Patricia Bray

How do writers work within the genre expectations of traditional high fantasy? What limitations do they face, and how do they challenge and stretch those limits? It's possible to write good fiction without churning out yet another young-man-in-a-remote-village-discovers-his-hidden-destiny plot, isn't it? Let's explore inspirations and ideas for this popular but critically suspect genre.

The SignOut
Monday, 11:30am-12:45pm

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I am so psyched about these panels, words cannot even express.

Comments

[kayselkiemoon.livejournal.com]

thanks for posting your schedule! looks like I'll be there in time for the Friday reading, ^_^

this is my first Wiscon - I am very psyched!

[oracne.livejournal.com]

Steve asked me to do the SO FEY reading last time I saw him, but it wasn't on my schedule. If it doesn't get worked out, will try and show up anyway and cheer you guys on! I've read "Detox" about 5 times elsewhere already....

Hmmm, or maybe they didn't give me that one because I'm in one of the late night groups.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_swallow/]

Oh, man, I am so jealous of people going to WisCon that the top of my head is tingling (it's bizarre!).

[ceciliatan.livejournal.com]

Oh, I sooooo wish I could be at Wiscon this year. (and every year....)

But I'm even more broke than last year. I mean like credit cards maxed and no end in sight kind of broke. So...

Have fun for me!