UPDATED!
Friday 26 April, 6-7pm – launch of Next, edited by Simon Petrie and Rob Porteous
Dealer’s Room
From 1pm, Thursday 25 April – come see the special offers at the CSFG dealers table
Thursday 25 April, 12-3pm – Writing using the five senses with Gillian Polack
Friday 26 April, 8-10am – Polishing your turds (or, how to edit your stories) with Ian McHugh
Friday 26 April, 8-10am – Distilling your story with Chris Andrews
Readings
Friday 26 April, 9:30-10am – Simon Petrie
Friday 26 April, 11-11.30am – Leife Shallcross
Friday 26 April, 3-3.30pm – David Coleman – UPDATED
Saturday 27 April, 9.30-10am – Ian McHugh
Saturday 27 April, 11-11.30am – Kaaron Warren (Conflux 9 Special Guest)
Sunday 28 April, 11-11.30am – Al Baxter
Sunday 28 April, 1.30-2pm – Shauna O’Meara
Art Show
Works by Shauna O’Meara
Events
Friday 26 April, 11am – kafeeklatsch with Gillian Polack
Saturday 27 April, 4-4.55pm – Guest of Honour talk by Kaaron Warren
Saturday 27 April, 8-8.55pm – The Romance Gauntlet (Leife Shallcross, Rob Porteous, Simon Petrie, Shauna O’Meara, Ross Hamilton)
Sunday 28 April, 11-12am – launch of In Fabula-divino, edited by Nicole Murphy
Panel Program
Thursday 25 April
10-10.55am – Taboo subjects for authors (Gillian Polack)
3-3.55pm – Self-publishing (Phill Berrie)
Friday 26 April
10-10.55am – What was great about SF when we were young? (Phill Berrie)
12.30-1.25pm – The politics of steampunk (Gillian Polack)
2.30-3.25pm – Better than they Should Be Anime (Shauna O’Meara, Elizabeth Fitzgerald)
4-4.55am – Podcasts and multimedia (Phill Berrie)
5-5.55pm – Speculative Art (Shauna O’Meara)
Saturday 27 April
10-10.55am – Writing communities (Phill Berrie)
11.30-12.25am – Using history to inspire fiction (Gillian Polack)
8-8.55pm – Star Wars the rebirth (Chris Andrews) UPDATED
Sunday 28 April
10-10.55am – Does a Cover Sell a Book? (Shauna O’Meara)
12.30-1.25pm – Defining the essentials of a short story (Gillian Polack)
12.30-1.25pm – Secret life of Writers (Elizabeth Fitzgerald)
2.30-3.25 – Junkyard Writing (Rob Porteous, Rik Lagarto)
3.30-4.25pm – Technological optimism vs political pessimism (Phill Berrie)