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Nov. 11th, 2015 07:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seekingferretI feel like this is an important post to make. The past two years, I've written pre-Philcon posts about the limited fanfiction programming, itself a step up from the years when Philcon consciously and conspicously ignored the existence of fanfiction.
2013- Fan Fiction: Stepping Stone or Cul de Sac?
2014- The Value of Transformative Works
This is something I've been campaigning about for several years, and it's been a bit of a struggle to figure out the right people to campaign to, but I made contact with the new programming director this year and we had several good email exchanges and the bottom line is that there will be two! panels on fanfiction at Philcon this year.
One is titled "Fanfiction that Deserves a Medal" and appears to be a generic recs panel. Nothing objectionable about this, it's much better than the past panels in design, but it's a panel that can go off the rails in a bunch of different ways- insufficient common ground in fandoms of the panelists, disagreement about what kinds of qualities should be valued in fanfic, derailment from talking about goodfic to talking about badfic, etc..., and I have highlighted my concerns to the programming director. So that could be good.
The other is a Yuletide discussion I pitched and will apparently be a panelist on. I'm really excited about this, it's exactly the sort of more specific fanfic programming I've been pushing for, that introduces to the Philcon community the idea that fanfiction is a fannish field of sufficient scope to merit more detailed discussion. I pitched it with a focus on Yuletide as a venue for literary SF, to use the presence of fanfic of works by Asimov and Heinlein and Leckie and so on as a hook for Philcon people who don't know Yuletide. We can build on that!
Philcon is next weekend and I am really excited for it. :D
2013- Fan Fiction: Stepping Stone or Cul de Sac?
2014- The Value of Transformative Works
This is something I've been campaigning about for several years, and it's been a bit of a struggle to figure out the right people to campaign to, but I made contact with the new programming director this year and we had several good email exchanges and the bottom line is that there will be two! panels on fanfiction at Philcon this year.
One is titled "Fanfiction that Deserves a Medal" and appears to be a generic recs panel. Nothing objectionable about this, it's much better than the past panels in design, but it's a panel that can go off the rails in a bunch of different ways- insufficient common ground in fandoms of the panelists, disagreement about what kinds of qualities should be valued in fanfic, derailment from talking about goodfic to talking about badfic, etc..., and I have highlighted my concerns to the programming director. So that could be good.
The other is a Yuletide discussion I pitched and will apparently be a panelist on. I'm really excited about this, it's exactly the sort of more specific fanfic programming I've been pushing for, that introduces to the Philcon community the idea that fanfiction is a fannish field of sufficient scope to merit more detailed discussion. I pitched it with a focus on Yuletide as a venue for literary SF, to use the presence of fanfic of works by Asimov and Heinlein and Leckie and so on as a hook for Philcon people who don't know Yuletide. We can build on that!
Philcon is next weekend and I am really excited for it. :D