Cat Sparks is a multi-award-winning Australian author, editor and artist. Career highlights include attaining a PhD in science fiction and climate fiction, five years as Fiction Editor of Cosmos Magazine, running Agog! Press, working as an archaeological dig photographer in Jordan, studying with Margaret Atwood, 75 published short stories, a collection and a far future novel, Lotus Blue. She’s a regular panellist & speaker at speculative fiction events.
Sessions in which Cat Sparks participates
4:30 PM
4:30 PM
- From Ecocatastrophe to Anthropocene fiction: full circle or new terrain? Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
- 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM | 30 minutes
- Anthropocene fiction/Cli Fi is being touted as the contemporary literature of our Earth in transformation, exploring impacts and effects of climate...
- Talk
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
- Horror Movie: It's the 6.30 News Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
- 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- With a whimper, not a bang Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- Rather than ending in a loud, messy apocalyptic bang, what if climate change turns out to be a slow, terrible descent into poor drinking water, mos...
- Panel
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
- Science fiction's boneyard Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 7
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- Does science fiction even exist anymore? The panellists examine how reality has caught up with and overtaken anything storytelling has to offer. Ho...
- Panel
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- Bicentential Monster- Shelley's Frankenstein Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
- Mary Shelley is the grandmother of science fiction, founding en entire genre 200 years ago with her novel, Frankenstein. Does the novel's cu...