Rachel Watts is an award-winning journalist and a writer of literary and speculative fiction.
She holds a Master's Degree in Media and Communication and teaches creative writing to adults and teenagers.
Her short stories and non-fiction have been published by Westerly, Island, Kill Your Darlings, Tincture and more.
Rachel Watts lives in Perth, Western
Australia. Her climate change, speculative fiction novella Survival is available in stores now.
Sessions in which Rachel Watts participates
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- Book launch: Survival by Rachel Watts Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 6
- 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM | 30 minutes
- Join Rachel Watts to celebrate the launch of Survival, a young adult novella.Ignorance is cheap. And then it costs you everything...
- Book Signings
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
- Apocalyptic outback Australia Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- Some non-urban regions of Australia seem like the apocalypse has already arrived. (Ever driven through a small wheatbelt town on a Sunday afternoon...
- Panel
Sessions in which Rachel Watts attends
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Beyond the Binary: Alternatives to patriarchy and other binary models of society Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- The panel work their way through historical, theoretical and fictional alternatives to the shitshow we are in. Then they get angry. Then they make ...
- Workshop
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
- Australian Landscapes as Characters Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
- 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM | 1 hour
- From the deserts to the suburbs*, Australian landscapes have been turned into important characters in their own right, particularly in YA sf and fa...
- Panel
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Aurealis Awards Ceremony Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 5
- 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 2 hours
- The 2017 Aurealis Awards are for works of speculative fiction by authors, editors and illustrators. The Au...
- Keynote
- Aurealis Awards Ceremony Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 7
- 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 2 hours
- Keynote
- Aurealis Award Ceremony Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 6
- 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 2 hours
- The 2017 Aurealis Awards are for works of speculative fiction by authors, editors and illustrators. The Aurealis Awards are a se...
- Keynote