Amal El-Mohtar Panels Day Start End Title Description Location Panelists Friday 9:00 PM 9:50 PM Steven Universe Sing-Along BIG TOP Amal El-Mohtar, Maggi Rohde Saturday 10:00 AM 10:50 AM Immigration and Refuge in Science Fiction Travel stories are classics in any genre, but in science fiction stories of travelling to a new home are often about colonization, or about intrepid explorers amongst the (primitive) aliens. Let’s talk about the science fiction stories that better reflect the experiences of immigrants and refugees in the real world. MANITOU Alexandra Manglis, Amal El-Mohtar, David Anthony Durham, John Chu Saturday 3:00 PM 3:50 PM Reading: Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar KEWEENAW Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone Saturday 4:00 PM 4:50 PM Autograph Session (4 PM) Come meet your favorite authors, artists and musicians and have them sign things! (Please limit your signing requests to 3 items per person.) ST. CLAIR Amal El-Mohtar, Annalee Flower Horne, Annalee Newitz, Carl Engle-Laird, David Anthony Durham, Delilah S. Dawson, Diana Rowland, Dominik Parisien, Dyrk Ashton, Ferrett Steinmetz, James Breakwell, James L. Sutter, Jason Sanford, Jason Sizemore, Jim Butcher, Jim C. Hines, Julia Rios, Mark Oshiro, Michael J. DeLuca, Michael R. Underwood, Monica Valentinelli, Mur Lafferty, Nisi Shawl, Patrick S. Tomlinson, Sara Dobie Bauer, Sarah Gailey, Scott H. Andrews, Seleste deLaney / Julie Particka, Stacey Filak, Suzanne Church, Tracy Townsend Saturday 5:00 PM 5:50 PM Star Wars: The Last Jedi as a Cast Study in Storytelling Our panel of writers discusses the structure, pacing, characters, themes, and world-building in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Also the swords, floaty rocks, and tiny fluffbeasts. ISLE ROYALE Amal El-Mohtar, Annalee Flower Horne, Annalee Newitz, Delilah S. Dawson, Julia Rios, Nisi Shawl Sunday 10:00 AM 10:50 AM Poetry In Novels Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass include lengthy poems, placing them in a long tradition of long-form fiction that incorporates poetry into the work. How does writing poems for prose fiction differ from writing poems that stand alone? What distinct techniques does it require? Where do poems within stories exist in the landscape of genre poetry today? ISLE ROYALE Amal El-Mohtar, Clif Flynt, Jeff Pryor, John Winkelman, Mari Ness Sunday 2:00 PM 2:50 PM A Novel Look at the Short Story Short stories require a different approach to pacing , character , world-building , exposition , and plot than longer works. Let’s explore the tools we use to convey important information to the reader when we have a lot fewer words to do it with. CHARLEVOIX A. T. Greenblatt, Amal El-Mohtar, Jessi Cole Jackson, Lucy A. Snyder, Scott H. Andrews