Programme
ClassiCon
Show Floor Areas
Lectures
Listen to your favourite authors engaging with hot topics
Award Stage
Who will win 'All Time Greatest Author' award & other literary prizes?
Autograph Tables
Get your favourite classic texts signed
Merchandise Stalls
Buy merchandise supporting your favourite authors
Q&A Panel
Ask those burning questions about past and present issues
Auction Hall
Bid to win typewriters, first drafts and other unique items
Schedule
Saturday 22nd June
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10:00 AM | Doors Open
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11:00 AM | Agatha Christie: Murder Mystery
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12:30 PM | Mary Shelley: Building the Perfect Man
1:00 PM | ‘Queer’-ying the Classics: A discussion with Oscar Wilde
2:30 PM | Fierce, Feminine, and Still Fighting: A Panel With Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf & George Eliot
3:00 PM | Leading the Way with Frederick Douglass
3:30 PM | African-American Mythology with Zora Neale Hurston
4:30 PM | What the Dickens Happened to Edwin Drood?: An Exclusive with Charles Dickens
5:30 PM | 'Alternative Facts', 1984 in 2018: An evening with George Orwell
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7:00 PM | Doors Close
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8:30 PM - Late | Ain't No Party Like A Gatsby Party
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Sunday 23rd June
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10:00 AM | Doors Open
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11:00 AM | What are words worth? The power of language with William Wordsworth
12:30 PM | Neocolonialism and the new 'Scramble for Africa' with Chinua Achebe
1:00 PM | Brave New Brexit with Aldous Huxley
2:30 PM | James Baldwin: An Outsider on the Inside
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3:00 PM | Mental health: A conversation with Ken Kesey and Daniel Keyes
3:30 PM | The Quest Narrative with JRR Tolkien and C.S Lewis
4:30 PM | Brexit Borders: Evolving Irish Writing with James Joyce and WB Yeats
5:30 PM | Wine & War with Hemingway & Heller
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7:00 PM | Doors Close
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8:30 PM - Late | Poet's Corner: Late night with Maya Angelou​
