Delighted to note that the SLF has been awarded a $5,000 grant from the National Book Foundation! This grant will support the purchase of new equipment, upgrades to software, and accessibility and finance training for staff. Excellent. http://www.speclit.org
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I’ve been thinking a lot about how I want to structure the summer writing. My best bet to actually go deep into writing is to do it first thing in the morning, and ideally before most people are awake. When I was in grad school writing Bodies in Motion, I actually went to bed at
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Next week Wednesday our $1000 Older Writers Grant opens to the public. If you are at least fifty years of age, and you’re starting out on your writing career, then you are welcome to apply! It’s free, easy, and straightforward! Visit bit.ly/olderwritersgrant to learn more about the grant and its guidelines. EDITING TO ADD: Hi,
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I think my potential nominations are: * “Expulsion” in the Sunday Morning Transport (short story category) * Mohanraj and Rosenbaum are Humans (fancast category, I think?) * Strange Horizons (semiprozine) — not anything I’ve worked on in a long time, but always happy to see my baby nominated… Hugo Awards – Nomination Ballot
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Bits of CapriCon: some of my books at the Larry Smith table in the dealer’s room (they only have one copy left of The Stars Change, Perennial, and Tornado, and I think they’ve sold out of my cookbook, sorry!) view from my window; I decided to get a room for tonight, a combo of relatively
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Little bits of CapriCon — after my two panels yesterday afternoon, Cecilia Tan and I ordered takeout to her room and we had a nice two hour catch-up before her panel. Lots of personal talk, lots of professional talk. In some ways, there’s a lot of overlap between her writing career and mine, so it’s
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Quick social media question — the SLF’s HootSuite charges doubled this last year, from about $500 to about $1100. Did they just raise their prices for everyone, or is this something I should look into further?
So, this is an initial thinking-things-through quick post, to be followed with more thorough thoughts. But one of the main things that I’m finding really frustrating about the publishing industry right now is the lack of clear guidelines I can use (and point my students to) for how to do indie & small press publishing
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Dear SF/F Writing & Reading Community, I’m writing to you at the eleventh hour — literally, 30 minutes to midnight in Chicago on December 31st, 2023 — with the Speculative Literature Foundation’s year-end letter. That’s perhaps characteristic of the last few years — like many folks, we’ve found recent times pretty overwhelming. There have been
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In this episode, Mary Anne Mohanraj and Benjamin Rosenbaum take some time to share their grief and complicated feelings about the devastating conflict occurring between Israel and Palestine. They discuss the ideas of isomorphism and symbiosis, the history of Zionism, the origins of war and nationalism, and the need to stay connected during difficult times,
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