Sarah Parker
Participates in 2 items
Sessions in which Sarah Parker participates
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- Swancon 2020 Launch Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
- Keynote
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Required reading and set texts Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- The Swancon2020 committee chat with you about how best to prepare for next year's convention. Come along and find out what to read, watch and do to...
- Collaborative
Sessions in which Sarah Parker attends
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
- Opening Ceremony Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour
- Welcome to Swancon 44: The Future is Now, featuring guests of honour Charlie Jane Anders, Jonathan Strahan, and Travis Johnson! Come along to the o...
- Keynote
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
- Is climate fiction the new cyberpunk? Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour
- Cyberpunk was a hugely popular sub-genre of science fiction, particularly in the 1980s when issues of technology, urbanisation, and changing cultur...
- Panel
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- Party-pooping science: Why your favourite novel is probably impossible Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Prince Regent
- 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour
- As readers of science fiction we may love all of the tales of faster-than-light travel, hyperspace, anti-gravity, laser guns, time travel, and othe...
- Panel
12:30 PM
12:30 PM
- Lunch Friday
- 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Closed
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Problems Houston never had Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Prince Regent
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Contingency plans of the space program, looking at some of the more odd answers to the question 'what if this thing goes horribly wrong' from the (...
- Talk
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Finding the Difference: Australian SF vs the Rest of the World Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- Australia has a strong and vibrant speculative fiction industry and community - but how does it differ from the SF produced in the USA, the UK, or ...
- Panel
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
- Dinner Friday
- 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Closed
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
- 2018 movies: from the kids' seats Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - King Sound
- 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour
- Panel
12:30 PM
12:30 PM
- Lunch Saturday
- 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Closed
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- The Authentic Climate Future Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- Whatever humanity’s future actions, it now seems all-but-guaranteed that the Earth of 2100 is not going to resemble the Earth of 2019. Science fict...
- Panel
- How we edit Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Prince Regent
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- Behind every professionally published short story, anthology and novel there is an editor, working with the author to improve, develop and transfor...
- Panel
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
- Dinner Saturday
- 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Closed
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
- The 2019 Tin Duck Awards Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 1 hour
- Western Australia’s own SF/F/etc. Awards since 1982, the Tin Ducks are awarded each year at Swancon. (The name is a play on another WA award, the S...
- Keynote
8:30 PM
8:30 PM
- Tin Duck Dance Party
- Signup required Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 8:30 PM - 10:30 PM | 2 hours
- Follow up the 2019 Tin Duck Awards ceremony with an evening of dance, chat, and social mixing for the whole Swancon, with Grant and Travis playing ...
12:30 PM
12:30 PM
- Lunch Sunday
- 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Closed
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- The best literary science fiction of 2018 Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Soon it will be time for nominations to be submitted and votes decided for this year’s speculative fiction awards. What were the best novels and sh...
- Panel
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Making a Living: Professional Writing for Speculative Fiction Authors Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Prince Regent
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- For many writers of science fiction and fantasy, the money earned from her or his craftis never enough with which to make a living. What other ...
- Panel
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- WASFF Annual General Meeting Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - King Sound
- 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 2 hours
- NOTICE OF 2019 WASFF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGAt Swancon, at The Esplanade hotel in Fremantle on Sunday the 21st of April, 4pm.
- Panel
12:30 PM
12:30 PM
- Lunch Monday
- 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Closed