Fantasy Faire 2016: come gather for the Litfest!

Fantasy Faire 2016 will once again celebrate the written word through LitFest, featuring writers from across Second Life, participating in discussions, readings, tours and more, together with some of the top literary groups in SL.

LitFest will be focused on the pavilion in Otherworld, Elicio Ember’s magnificent build for this year’s Faire.

This year the emphasis is on creation, as a number of the leaders of creative writing groups in Second Life bring their regular events to the Faire, and welcome newcomers who want to join in with such events as the “Poetry Prompt” with Leslye Writer, where people are given a prompt word and write for 20 minutes then share what they’ve written or the “SL Flickr Photo Story Challenge for Beginners” with Prettyflower Vale.

There will also be daily writing challenges for everyone to enjoy: put your Fantasy Faire experience into words. There are stories, tales, legends, songs, and poems to be found around very corner in the Fairelands. How do the builds and the people, the places and the creations touch you? What stories do they whisper to you?

The LitFest Tours

To help inspire you with your writing, Fantasy Faire 2016 will include a series of tours to ten of the Fairelands realms, these will depart the LitFest pavilion  twice daily at 10:00 SLT and 17:30 SLT. Each tour lasts for an hour. To  participate, simply:

• Join a tour at the start of a session, and travel to the selected destination.  Explore and open yourself to the voices there; see how they inspire you
• Return to LitFest home base (or your own personal quiet space) and realize in words the narrative and feelings inspired by the region featured
• Share your work in draft or final with the rest of the tour in a voluntary open mic, or submit your piece within 24 hours – either in-world or by email – to be posted along with others inspired by the same region. Sharing is voluntary.  Individual writers retain creative ownership of works shared.

Date	10:00	17:30
Thursday, April 21st (17:00 only)	—	The Golden Delta
Friday, April 22nd	The Golden Delta	Lucentia
Saturday, April 23rd	Lucentia	Twilight Illusion
Sunday, April 24th	Twilight Illusion	Echtra
Monday, April 25th	Echtra	Serenity
Tuesday, April 26th	Serenity	Dangarnon
Wednesday, April 27th	Dangarnon	Bright Haven
Thursday, April 28th	Bright Haven	Breeze
Friday, April 29th	Breeze	Tinker’s Hollow
Saturday, April 30th	Tinker’s Hollow	Blackmoor
Sunday, May 1st (10:00 only)	Blackmoor	—

Other LitFest Events

Note; the official schedule was still a work in progress at the time of writing – please check with it for any updates or amendments. All times SLT.

Date	Time	Activity
Friday, April 22nd	11:00 – noon	Caledonia Skytower reads short stories
	13:00 – 14:00	The Tales of Ashenborne with Ketsui Naidoo
	15:00 – 16:00	The Short Story Discussion Group with Destry Recreant

Date	Time	Activity
Saturday, April 23rd	All Day	Shakespeare Day: a Fairelands-wide commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the bard’s passing
	06;00 – 07:00	Poets’ Plunder Klannex Northmead
	11:00 – 13:00	The Coldshot Players
	13:30 – 15:00	A Midsummer Night’s Dream – a special Fairelands Players presentation of this popular comedy by Shakespeare
	18:30 – 20:00	Tall Tales with Ceejay Writer (author Lori Alden Holuta)

Date	Time	Activity
Sunday, April 24th	11:00 – 12:00	Going Down the Tubes with Ceejay Writer, sharing a chapter from the 2nd novel in The Brassbright Chronicles
	13:00 – 13:45	Boudicca Reads with Boudicca Amat
	14:00 – 15:00	Self-expression & Discovery through Poetry & Stories
	16::00 – 17:00	Literature Alive with Desideria Stockton

Date	Time	Activity
Monday, April 25th	08:00 – 09:00	Past’s Prologue : Shadow Wars – with Nova Mitchell (author Ryanna Foxclaw)
	11:00 – 12:00	Poetry Prompt poetry workshop with Leslye Writer
	13:00 – 14:00	The Story of Sapphire Mirror Lake with Haveit Neox and Lilia Artis
	15::00 – 16:00	Sounds of Poems – poetry reading from popular SL poets
	19::00 – 20:00	Seanchai Library – A Selection from The Orphan by Charles Stallman, with Gyro Muggins
	22::00 – 23:00	The Festival by HP Lovecraft read by Virginia (understandingcomplexity)

Date	Time	Activity
Tuesday, April 26th	11:00 – 12:00	Poetry Prompt poetry workshop with Leslye Writer
	13:00 – 14:00	Building Imaginary Worlds with Freyja Nemeth (Linda Antonsson)
	15:00 – 16:30	A Land of Stories with Elicio Ember – explore Otherworld with its creator
	19:00 – 20:00	Seanchai Library – The Witches Headstone by Neil Gaiman read by Shandon Loring & Caledonia Skytower

Date	Time	Activity
Wednesday, April 27th	11:00 – 12:00	Poetry Prompt poetry workshop with Leslye Writer
	14:00 – 15:00	The Writers’ Circle Open Microphone with Jilly Kidd and Adele Ward
	16:00 – 17:00	SL Flickr Photo Story Challenge for Beginners’ with Prettyflower Vale

Date	Time	Activity
Thursday, April 28th	11:00 – 12:00	Poetry Prompt poetry workshop with Leslye Writer
	13:00 – 14:00	Wolfie’s Poetry Surf – open microphone poetry readings
	19:00 – 20:00	Seanchai Library Conan – Phoenix on the Sword read by Shandon Loring

Date	Time	Activity
Friday, April 29th	11:00 – 12:00	Poetry Prompt poetry workshop with Leslye Writer
	13:00 – 13:45	Boudicca Reads with Boudicca Amat
	15:00 – 16:00	The Short Story Discussion Group with Destry Recreant
	19:00 – 20:00	Lyrical Cafe Poetry Club with Kamille Kamala (incl open microphone opportunity for readings)

Date	Time	Activity
Saturday, April 30th	06:00 – 07:00	Poets’ Plunder Klannex Northmead
	12:00 – 13:00	For the Love (and Hate) of Lovecraft’ with Arik Metzger (Arik the Red)
	14:00 – 15:00	Speculative Fiction Saturday – led by Simeon Beresford – audience participation compulsory!
	15:00 – 16:00	Organic Literary Growth in New Babbage with Bookworm Hienrichs