Conflux 6 Programme
(2009)
Workshops
Kaffeeklatsches
Whole membership events
Guest appearances
Media
Launches
Presentations and talks
Kaffeeklatsches and Literary Beers: Numbers are limited. You must pre-register at Registration to join in. BYO Beer
Friday
| Time | Room A | Room B | Room C | Room D (Dealers) |
Room D (Creative Corner) |
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| 9am | Set up | ||||
| 10am | Workshop Maxine McArthur - God Is In The Details or How To Stay On The Editor's Good Side |
Workshop Alan Baxter - Write The Fight Right |
Workshop Russell Sykes from RSM Bird Cameron Chartered Accountants - Taxation For Writers and Artists |
Room Opens | |
| Noon | Break | ||||
| 12:30pm | Workshop Jack Dann - The Keys To The Kingdom |
Workshop Chris Barnes - The Noble And Nightly Art of The Long Sword |
Workshop Marc McBride - How To Draw Monsters |
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| 3pm | Break | ||||
| 3:30pm | Workshop Sean McMullen - Words to Screen |
Workshop Gillian Polack - Reasearching And Writing Secret History - How to Convince People That Conspiracies and Other Hidden History is Real |
(1) Literary Beer with Jim Minz | ||
| 5:30pm | Rooms closed to set up for Opening Ceremony | (2) Panel Secret Identities Mystery Panelists |
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| 6:30pm | Opening Ceremony | Room Closed for Opening ceremony | |||
| 7:00pm | (3) CSFG Gauntlet | (4) Mystery Science Theatre 3 Thousand | Room reopens for trading | ||
| 9pm | CSFG 10th Birthday Party: 9:00pm to late | Room Closed | |||
Saturday
| Time | Room A | Room B | Room C | Room D (Dealers) |
Room D (Creative Corner) |
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| 9am | Kaffeeklatsch Karen Nikakis |
Kaffeeklatsch Alan Baxter |
Dealers' area open for trading | Nintendo DS Lite in Creative Corner - time to share a game or two | |
| 10am | (5) Panel Vampires Keri Arthur, Tracey O'Hara, Jane Virgo (c) |
(6) Panel Writing for Youth and Young Adults Jack Heath, Rachel Kerr(c), Dave Luckett, Sean McMullen, Tara Ott, Tycho Petrie |
Author in Residence: Crisetta MacLeod | ||
| 11am | (7) Panel Conventions In Australia Garry Dalrymple, Karen Herkes (c), Ian Nicholls |
(8) Panel Torchwood and Other Secret Organisations Carol Bott (c), Lawrie Brown, April Herzog, Danny Oz |
Guest of Honour Emily Rodda |
Author in Residence: Karen Nikakis | Dalek Making with Karen Vaughan in Creative Corner |
| Noon | Lunch Break | Aussiecon 4 To celebrate next year's big event, join us for a drink at the bar! |
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| 12:30pm | Book Launch Subversive Activity By Dave Luckett |
(9) Panel Setting the Seen Alan Baxter, Jack Dann, Richard Harland, Sean McMullen, Cat Sparks(c) |
(10) Talk How NASA Faked the Moon landings - literally Peter Barrett |
Author in Residence: Ian Nicholls | |
| 1:30pm | (11) Panel Animals Who Are Not People Maxine McArthur, Marc McBride, Lewis Morley, Marilyn Pride, Anna Tambour (c) |
(12) Panel Secrets of Predicting The End Of The World Carol Bott (c), Karen Herkes, Jane Virgo |
Guest Of Honour Baen Travelling Slide Show Jim Minz |
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| 2:30pm | Guests Canberra Showcase Panel Richard Harland (c), Special Guests: Jack Heath, Maxine McArthur, Tracey O'Hara, Simon Petrie, Gilian Polack |
(13) Panel Who is Dr Who? Carol Bott, Lawrie Brown, Danny Oz (c) |
(14) Panel Markets for Artists and Trends in the Industry Marc McBride, Lewis Morley, Marilyn Pride, Nic Stathopoulos |
Author in Residence: Christian Tamblyn | Dalek Making with Karen Vaughan |
| 3:30pm | (15) Panel Authors and Editors Jim Minz, Stephanie Smith, Richard Harland, Robert Hood |
(16) Panel The Norma K Hemming Award Sean McMullen, Gillian Polack, Bill Wright(c) |
(17) Panel Short Story Writing Mark Farrugia, Yaritji Green, Kathleen Jennings, Simon Petrie, Cat Sparks(c) |
Artists in Residence: Lewis Morley, Marilyn Pride | |
| 4pm | (18) Panel Sexuality in SF Maxine McArthur, Sean McMullen, Gillian Polack, Bill Wright(c) |
Reading Jenny Blackford |
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| 4:30pm | Set up for banquet - rooms closed | Mass Book Signing | |||
| 5:30pm | Website Launch by Richard Harland | Author in Residence: Duncan Lay | |||
| 7pm | BANQUET | Dr Who / Torchwood Freeform RPG | Room closes for evening | ||
| 8pm | MAGIC Game session | ||||
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| 10pm | Second World Headbands Challenge Narrator: Karen Herkes |
11pm | Mafia Game (when Banquet winds down) Narrator: Jim Minz |
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Sunday
| Time | Room A | Room B | Room C | Room D (Dealers) |
Room D (Creative Corner) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9am | Kaffeeklatsch Duncan Lay |
Reading Christian Tamblyn |
Room open | ||
| 10am | (19) Panel In Memorium Karen Herkes, Lewis Morely |
(20) Panel Real Science in SF Sabrina de Souza, Sharyn Liley, Ian Nichols, Simon Petrie(c) |
(21) Panel Publishing Options Chris Barnes(c), Felicity Dowker, Alan Baxter, Jim Minz |
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| 11am | (22) Panel Writing Reviews Jenny Blackford(c), Crisetta MacLeod, Ian Nichols |
(23) Panel The Secrets of Writing Humour Richard Harland(c), Duncan Lay, Val Toh |
Guest Of Honour Marc McBride Marc will do a painting demonstration and talk about his published work |
Bead Making with Annie Morris in Creative Corner | |
| Noon | Launch MageSign by Alan Baxter |
Literary Beer with Dave Luckett | |||
| 12:30pm | (24) Panel Fantasy Literature Panel Sabrina de Souza, Duncan Lay, KJ Taylor, Jenny Blackford(c) |
(25) Panel Romance in SF, "Looking For Love In All the Write Places" Erica Hayes, Nicole Murphy, Karen Nikakis |
Author in Residence: Richard Harland | Artists in Residence: Lewis Morely, Marilyn Pride | |
| 1:30pm | (26) Panel Where to From Here? After The First Novel Richard Harland, KJ Taylor, Others TBA |
(27) Panel "Whodunit" Panel Natasha Badinoff, Doug Graves MP, Father A. Long, Sandy Shore, Sum Ting Wong |
Guests Of Honour Emily Rodda and Marc McBride on collaborating as Author and Artist. For the Deltora Quest series |
Author in Residence: Sabrina de Souza | |
| 2:30pm | (28) Panel Creative Writing Courses Karen Nikakis(c), Ian Nichols, Dave Luckett, Yaritji Green |
Auction | Guest Of Honour Jim Minz e-Publishing |
Masques promotion event | |
| 3:30pm | (29) Panel Mythology and Cultural Respect Yaritji Green(c), Gilian Polack, Christian Tamblyn, Kyliue Seluka |
(30) Panel Writing 101 (or "The Things I Wish Some Had Told Me When I Was Starting Out") Keri Arthur, Jim Minz, Nicole Murphy (c), KJ Taylor |
(31) Panel Steampunk Literature Panel Richard Harland, Cat Sparks(c), Jane Virgo |
Author in Residence: Dave Luckett | Sukkot Event |
| 4:30pm | (32) Panel Script Writing Ross Hamilton(c), Panelists TBA |
(33) Panel Duct Tape and Paddle Pop Sticks - "McGuivering" in Literature and Media Carol Bott, Karen Herkes(c), Tara Ott |
ENEIT Press Launch Life Through Cellophane (Gillian Polack) and In Bad Dreams 2 (editied Sharyn Lilley) |
Everyone invited to write a comment on Nick's Birthday Cake! | |
| 5:30pm | Book Launch Slice of Life |
Author in Residence: Alan Baxter | |||
| 6:00pm | (34) Panel Survivor! Creating New Emergency Management Guides Karen Herkes, Rob Hood, Jim Minz, Laura E Goodin |
Literary Beer with Jack Dann | |||
| 7:00pm | Masquerade | Trivia Competition Danny Oz |
Room Closed | ||
| 8:30pm | Guests: Ninjaz With Attitude | Open Mike Session Karen Herkes |
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| 9:30pm | Nicology - Late night birthday celebration for Nick Stathopoulos | ||||
Monday
| Time | Room A | Room B | Room C | Room D (Dealers) |
Room D (Creative Corner) |
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| 9:00am | Room open | ||||
| 10:00am | (35) Panel Editing Anthologies Bill Congreve, Donna Hanson, Alisa Krasnostein, Cat Sparks |
(36) Panel Food Food Food Jenny Blackford, Lewis Morley, Marilyn Pride, Anna Tambour(c) |
(37) Panel The Orphan in Youn Adult Fiction Richard Harland, Karen Herkes, Dave Luckett |
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| Noon | Lunch | Guest Of Honour Literary Beer with Jim Minz |
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| 12:30 | (38) Panel Beating Writers Block Jack Dann, Richard Harland, Karen Herkes |
Workshop April Herzog - Caring For Your Collection |
(39) Panel Twitteratii Alan Baxter, Rachel Kerr(c), Nicole Murphy |
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| 1:30pm | (40) Panel Fan Funds Jean Weber, Karen Herkes, Others TBA |
(41) Panel The Next Big Thing in SF TV Conor Bendle, Mik Bennet, Dietmar Ott |
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| 2:00pm | (42) Panel Fictional History Jack Dann, Richard Harland, Dave Luckett(c), Gillian Polack |
(43) Panel Farewell Davide Tennant Danny Oz, Val Toh, April Herzog |
(44) Panel Comic Artists and Writers in Australia Liz Kenneally, Jon Sommariva |
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| 3:00pm | (45) Panel The Future of Trek Conor Bendle, Mik Bennet, April Herzog |
(46) Panel The Transparent Society Lawrie Brown, Roger Clarke, Rachel Kerr |
Guest Of Honour Jim Minz What's The Secret Formula To Getting Published? |
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| 4:00pm | Closing Ceremony | Room Closed | |||
| 4:30pm | Dead Dog Party in Bar | ||||