Summer of Speculative Fiction Festival 2007
January 25-28

The Summer of Speculative Fiction is a four-day festival of cultural events in January 2007 celebrating speculative fiction in all its forms. Hosted by Fantastic Queensland in Brisbane over the Australia Day long weekend, the festival will feature:

discussion panels
author talks and readings
film screenings
book launches
writing workshops and seminars
and the pinnacle event - the 2006 Aurealis Awards Ceremony

Program

Thursday, 25 January
AUTHOR TALK & READING: Kelly Link and Gavin Grant
Where: Avid Reader Bookshop, 193 Boundary St West End
When: 6:00pm
Cost: FREE (complimentary wine and nibbles provided)

Saturday, 27 January
WRITING WORKSHOP: Lee Battersby
"The Care and Feeding of Your Genre: Writing SF and Fantasy"
Where: Queensland Writers Centre, 109 Edward Street, Brisbane
When: 10:00am to 1:00pm
Cost: $40 (phone QWC to book - 07 3839 1243)

DISCUSSION PANEL: Lyn Battersby, Jessica Vivien, Michele Cashmore and Helen Venn
Where: Queensland Writers Centre, 109 Edward Street, Brisbane
When: 1:00 - 1:45pm
Cost: FREE

AUREALIS AWARDS CEREMONY & COCKTAIL PARTY
Hosted by Kim Wilkins, author of Rosa and the Veil of Gold
Where: Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts
When: 6:00pm for 6:30pm
Cost: $27.50 (including drinks and finger food)
Book online at www.jwcoca.qld.gov.au under 'What's On'

Sunday, 28 January
DISCUSSION PANEL & SEMINAR: Kelly Link, Gardner Dozois, Gavin Grant & Stephanie Smith (HarperCollins)
"How to Get Published in SF & Fantasy"
Where: Sue Benner Theatre, Metro Arts, 109 Edward St, Brisbane
When: 11:00am - 1:00pm
Cost: FREE to valid Aurealis Award ticket holders
RSVPS essential to info AT fantasticqueensland.com

Featured Presenters
The festival is proud to host some exciting names in speculative fiction, including:

	Kelly Link (US) has won the World Fantasy, Hugo, Nebula, Tiptree and Locus Awards for her fiction. Her latest collection - Magic for Beginners - was selected for best of the year lists by Time Magazine, Salon, Village Voice and the San Francisco Chronicle.		Gardner Dozois (US) Gardner Dozois was the editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine for twenty years and is the editor of the annual anthology series The Year's Best Science Fiction. He has written or edited more than eighty books, won thirteen Hugo Awards as the year's Best Editor, and two Nebula Awards for his own short fiction.
	Gavin Grant (US) runs Small Beer Press and, with Kelly Link, publishes the zine Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet. He co-edits The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror with Link and Ellen Datlow for which they have received the Bram Stoker and Locus Awards.		Kim Wilkins is Brisbane's most celebrated author of dark fantasy. Her award-winning novels, including The Infernal, Autumn Castle, Angel of Ruin and the Gina Champion series for younger readers are sold in Australia, United States, UK and Germany.
	Lyn Battersby is an exciting emerging author of WA. Her fiction has been published in Borderlands, Shadowed Realms and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine. Her story - The Memory of Breathing - was nominated for the 2005 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story.		Lee Battersby is one of Australia's most exciting literary talents in the speculative fiction genre. He has published more than 50 stories in Australian and international anthologies, magazines and journals. He is a guest tutor of Clarion South Writers Workshop 2007.