Programming suggestions open for FOGCon

[epershand]

Programming suggestions are now open for FOGCon! Suggest programming items here.

(For those of you who don't know, FOGCon is a new literary speculative fiction convention in San Francisco, to be held March 11-13, 2011.) This year's theme for FOGCon is The City.

Wooo!

(ETA: Brainstorming in the comments)

Comments

[epershand]

Yeah, branstorming here would be excellent. One other thing to note is that because it's aiming to be a literary con, it's also a good idea to stick largely to book-related meta as opposed to things that come up primarily in media fandom.

There's already talk about having a panel on writerfails, called something like "how not to destroy your writing career on the internet."

[damned_colonial]

When they say "media fandom" do they mean things that are on TV/movies, or do they mean "transformative fandom" or whatever the sparkly pony/pretty princess thing is?

Because if media fandom = transformative fandom then "talk about transformative fandom as it applies to book fandom" is ummm.

I would also argue that fanfic-centric fandom *is* literary fandom -- what are we doing if not writing and reading?

[damned_colonial]

Replying to self... so turning that into a brainstorming thingy, what about something like "turning media fandom literary -- how fanfic can improve tv and movies" or something?

[epershand]

In this case, "media fandom" = tv/movies.

Also, I should mention that "they" = "we" for me now--I'm the volunteer coordinator for the con.

[damned_colonial]

Ha, cool :)