Okay, Portolan Project Phase 1 Kickstarter submitted for approval. Fingers crossed it’s approved, and we can launch on October 1st — if you love me (or just appreciate the work I do for the writing / lit. community), please help spread the word, and/or donate if you’re in a position to do so. This project […]
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I’ve been avoiding making this 2 min. Kickstarter video for a few weeks now, but today I finally geared up and just did it. One take, and while it’s not perfect, I think it’s good enough, which is good, because I honestly don’t think I have another take in me right now. Just call me
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Quick note that we’ve opened up our convention support grant for the fall, until September 15. The SLF gave out four grants in the spring, and have funds available for about five grants this fall. Application details here: https://speculativeliterature.org/…/convention-support…/ ***** Here’s a quick run-down of what our selected applicants sent in this spring, to help
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Quick note that the SLF hosts co-writing from 11-2 CST on Saturdays, and I’m planning to attend throughout the fall (along with some of my students, hopefully). We used to reserve this for members, but we decided to throw it open to all, so come hang out with us. We usually do about 10 minutes
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Hey, folks — I think I haven’t been good about telling you about weekly podcast drops! Let me catch you up on the last few weeks: Ep. 19: “Ellen and Delia, Pt. 1″ is out now!” Mary Anne and Ben catch up with old friends Delia Sherman and Ellen Kushner. In the first half of
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Hey, writers & readers — I’d love your help with this project that is very near and dear to my heart. I need people to look at a short (under 5-minute) video, and then look at some study guide questions and some exercises — ideally, they’d try actually doing some — and give me feedback.
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Check out our interview with Cadwell Turnbull! In movies, shows, and books, the aliens often invade the biggest, most iconic cities in our world. But what if the aliens chose to inhabit a place like the US Virgin Islands? In this episode, Benjamin Rosenbaum and I interview Cadwell Turnbull on his sci-fi book, The Lesson,
Are you keeping up with our podcast? Episodes 14+15 are now out! In Episode 14, recorded during the early stages of the pandemic, Mary Anne and Benjamin delve into their family structures through a lens of domesticity. Ben introduces and explains his chore chart, which was created earlier in his life and has developed into
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Brilliant Sri Lankan American writers Nayomi Munaweera and Sugi Ganeshananthan very kindly agreed (on very short notice!) to record a podcast episode with me. In theory, we were going to talk about doing Sri Lankan research for our books, but in actuality, we mostly talked about other Sri Lankan writers we love, and food. Lots
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I’m listening to the new episode of our podcast that just dropped, episode 11, where we interview the fabulous Liz Gorinsky, editor at Erewhon Books. Writers, this particular episode of the podcast is chock-full of nitty-gritty details from someone who edited books for many years at Tor, and now runs a brand-new boutique small press
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