FEBruary 9 - 11, 2012

Cost: $30 in advance * students free with current ID

Life, the Universe & Everything 30:

The Marion K. “Doc” Smith Symposium on Science Fiction & Fantasy

 

Committee Meetings:

Saturdays (except holidays and General Conference)

1:00 PM Room 4035 JKB

Anyone is welcome. BYU students especially needed.

Meetings generally last 1/2 hour.

LTUE Recruitment Flyer


For other Utah Speculative Fiction events, go to UtahSF.org.



LTUE EDUCATORS’ CONFERENCE

Using Fantasy and Science Fiction in the K-12 Classroom

Saturday 11 February 2012 * 9 AM to 3 PM

For teachers, educators, media specialists, future teachers and parents.

Certificates that can be used towards Professional Development Credit

available.  UVU credit  available for an additional fee.

(Register for a one-day membership, or come all three days!)


CALL FOR PAPERS!

LTUE is looking for academic papers on science fiction, fantasy or horror themes. 

If you have a question, a paper or a proposal for a paper, email academics (at) ltue (dot) org

or download flyer.  Deadline is November 15. Click here for a PDF of the rules.


    PROCEEDINGS VOLUMES

     Proceedings of the various symposia on sale! Go to the Deep Thoughts page for more information!



February 9-11, 2012 at Utah Valley University (Sorensen Center)!

Everything you love about LTUE at a different university!



Guests of Honor:



James A. Owen 

(“Starchild” and “Here There Be Dragons”)


Special Guests:

Writing Excuses Podcast Team:

Brandon Sanderson

Mary Robinette Kowal

Dan Wells

Howard Tayler


Chris Schoebinger

Acquisitions Editor for Shadow Mountain.


Featured Guests:

Larry Correia

James Dashner

David Farland (Saturday only)

Tracy & Laura Hickman (Saturday only)

L.E. Modesitt, Jr. (Saturday only)

Brandon Mull (Saturday only)



Book Signings Announced!

LTUE will have a small signing on Thursday and Saturday.
On Friday we’ll have a mass autograph signing from 8:30 - 10 PM.  See the link for a list of authors!


*NOTE: Richard Paul Evans had to cancel.



David Farland is setting up several writing workshops for the coming months--one in Orem, one in Dallas, and four in Saint George.

The workshops will be:

Million Dollar Outlines--2 Day Workshops

Writing for Young Adults--1 Week

Professional Writer's Workshop--1 Week

Novel Rewriting Workshop--1 Week

For more information, people can go to

http://www.davidfarland.com/writingworkshops/