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Rebecca Laffar-Smith

Sci Fi Fantasy Author
Sci Fi Fantasy Author

Escape Reality, Experience Possibility

Rebecca Laffar-Smith always yearned to explore the wonders of this world and beyond. After twelve years as a freelance copywriter and editor, she gave up writing about the non-fiction world in favour of fantastical creatures and the fanciful things she could create and immortalise in fiction. Now she writes in the moments she can steal away from homeschooling her Autistic son, raising her creative daughter, and volunteering as an events coordinator and mentor for her local writing community. She dreams of someday running a writer's retreat on the outskirts of Perth and writing her stories in a detached, hexagonal room with dozen's of bookshelves and plenty of natural light.


Sessions in which Rebecca Laffar-Smith attends

Saturday 5 June, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
A writer's view of the pandemic
1 hour, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Samantha Murray (Panelist)

Andrew Harvey, Hague Publishing / Science Fiction Author (Panelist)

Amanda Bridgeman (Panelist)

How will the COVID-19 affect you, the writer? Have to throw away a script that was "Too soon"? More familiar with the effects of isolation? Did the...
2:00 PM
2:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Michael Keady (Presenter)

7:30 PM
7:30 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Panel

Heather Salter-Purves (Panelist)

Mx Anna Hepworth (Panelist)

How we use story to preserve memories, and how quickly those memories can be removed if stories are suppressed. Panelisted will explore The Madolor...

Sunday 6 June, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
10:00 AM
10:00 AM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Panel

Andrew Harvey, Hague Publishing / Science Fiction Author (Panelist)

Stephen Dedman (Panelist)

Unreliable narrators: a subjective and uncertain tour through the story-telling options for introducing biased narrators, not limited to accidental...
11:00 AM
11:00 AM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Panel

RWA runs writing competitions for members and non-members, where entrants receive feedback on their submissions. The panel will guide the audience ...
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
LUNCH DAY 2
1 hour, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM
1:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Panel

Emma Hawkes Emma (Panelist)

Katherine Mcfarlane (Panelist)

Gina Goddard (Panelist)

Guest of Honour Speech
1 hour, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Keynote

Claire Coleman (Speaker)

3:00 PM
3:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Amanda Bridgeman (Panelist)

Russell B. Farr (Panelist)

Andrew Harvey, Hague Publishing / Science Fiction Author (Panelist)

Glenda Larke (Panelist)

Are YOU a new writer, or want to become a writer? Are YOU looking for guidance and/or information about where to go with your "Work in Progress"...
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
The Geek Guide: An introduction
1 hour, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

Helen Creagh (Presenter)

The Geek Guide is a freshly launched bi-annual publication made by geeks for geeks. We are working with the fandom community to provide a listing o...
5:00 PM
5:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

cheshirenoir@gmail.com (Panelist)

David Horton (Panelist)

While the technology has moved on, the laws of physics have not. A look at the various problems confronted in building a space plane and how they m...
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
DINNER DAY 2
1 hour 30 minutes, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Monday 7 June, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
1:00 PM
1:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Emma Gill (Panelist)

Stephen Gunnell (Panelist)

Katherine Mcfarlane (Panelist)

Anne McCaffery is probably most famous for her "Pern" novels full of SF Dragons and interesting characters, but that's not the only stories she wro...
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
Happy stories at the end of the world
1 hour, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Panel

Jonathan Strahan (Panelist)

Heather Salter-Purves (Panelist)

Cat Sparks (Panelist)

Cozy fiction centres domesticity, community and care but often we feel guilt for enjoying cozy media as the world burns. Can we balance self-care w...

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Stephen Dedman (Panelist)

Emma Gill (Panelist)

Claire Coleman (Speaker)

Far too many SF/F stores, particularly those of a certain age, often portray "empires" and "colonies" that seem awfully similar to a lot of the act...
3:00 PM
3:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Heather Salter-Purves (Panelist)

Take a standard story. Put in a recognisable trope, something that the readers/viewers are comfortable with and subconsciously understand. Then ...