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Casandra Harrold
Friday
, August 14
12:00pm
MDT
Survival Skills in Dystopian Fiction
Hyatt Regency Calgary - Herald
Valerie L. King • Sandy Fitzpatrick • Gary Renshaw • Don Miasek • Susan Forest
1:30pm
MDT
Short & Sweet, Why Word-Economy Needs to be in Every Writer's Toolkit
Hyatt Regency Calgary - Imperial Ballroom 8
Alexis Marie Chute
3:00pm
MDT
High stakes short fiction
Hyatt Regency Calgary - Imperial Ballroom 8
Lexie Angelo
4:30pm
MDT
Book Banning and Censorship: Looking at the Bigger Picture
Hyatt Regency Calgary - Imperial Ballroom 8
Kit Dobson
Writing As Resistance: Using Our Words to Critique, Challenge, and Disrupt
Hyatt Regency Calgary - Imperial Ballroom 5
Madison Joyce • Priscille Bukasa • Adrienne Adams • Alex Benarzi • O.L. McAnord
Saturday
, August 15
9:00am
MDT
What's Under the Bed - Creating monsters who'll haunt readers long after they've closed the book
Hyatt Regency Calgary - Imperial Ballroom 9
Shelly Campbell
Writing Beyond the Self: Creating Characters Outside Our Lived Experience
Hyatt Regency Calgary - Imperial Ballroom 5
James Downe • Robert J. Sawyer • Huck Kahng • Finnian Burnett
12:00pm
MDT
Making Monsters: the Art & Craft of Writing Horror
Hyatt Regency Calgary - Doll
Fiona McTaggart • James Downe • Kim Harbridge • Sam Wilket
3:00pm
MDT
Workplace Horror - Something Smells in the Break Room
Hyatt Regency Calgary - Herald
Jason Pearce • Sarah L. Pratt • Rob Bose • Chris Marrs
6:00pm
MDT
Kevin McDonald Superstar
Hyatt Regency Calgary - Imperial Ballroom 4+6
Kevin McDonald
Sunday
, August 16
12:00pm
MDT
My Stupid Career, with Kevin McDonald
Hyatt Regency Calgary - Imperial Ballroom 6
Kevin McDonald
1:30pm
MDT
Your Process, Your Way: The Busy Wordsmith’s Sustainable Writing Practise
Hyatt Regency Calgary - Imperial Ballroom 7
Nicole Bross
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