This is very fun — we’ve been working with a local musician, Thor Bremer, to add some original music to our little 9 second intro video (animation by Brandon Hadnot) for the podcast / Youtube series (Mohanraj and Rosenbaum Are Humans, hopefully launching March 15th, my god, that’s soon, argh….). I really like what he’s […]
Like Game of Thrones, But Light and More Peppy Read More »
Various readers here refer to my #spacecats, so I feel like I ought to do an update. Sripati is to the best of my knowledge safe and well cared for; he’s also no longer part of our household. My cats were indoor-outdoor cats; they’re former ferals, and it felt cruel to keep them indoors. (No
An Update on My Spacecats Read More »
We’re finishing up the design on the podcast cover art for Benjamin Rosenbaum and my upcoming podcast (launching March 15th, eep!). Cool, yes? Any last tweaks before we finalize? (Artwork by Stephanie Bailey!)
Finishing Up the Podcast Cover Design Read More »
Congratulations to Jackie Fallis (they/them), who has won the SLF’s 2021 Working-Class Writers Grant ($1000) for their submission ‘A is for Amiable.’ Jackie Fallis is from Ontario, California. They write speculative literature as well as essays on disability and scifi. Recently they’ve had a short-short published by Doug Weller, and they have an essay in
The Winner of the SLF 2021 Working-Class Writers Grant Read More »
From Plurality University: “We are extremely happy to launch our next collective project, Narratopias. Narratopias is a collective, open project that wishes to organize, on a global scale, a collective response to the recurring call for “new narratives.” (https://corpora.latelier-des-chercheurs.fr/narratopia/) It is a project for all of you who wish to work with alternative narratives and
We’re getting ready to open up a Discord hangout space for writers, through the SLF (so members-only, at least to start). In my experience, all such spaces must be moderated with a pretty firm hand to be effective; we have one moderator so far, but could use a few more. I don’t want to throw
Getting Ready for Our SLF Discord Hangout Read More »
I posted this in our local progressives group, am copying it here, mostly as an update for people following along with the makerspace efforts from the last two years. It’s not gone! Just slowed down a bit. ***** Hey, folks. So, a question about hosting political conversation in Oak Park. This will be a little
The Plan for Maram Read More »
How cool is this? The SLF’s Bay Area chapter organized a presentation on “Virology for Writers,” featuring expert information from Dr. Kishana Taylor. Neat!
Virology for Writers With Dr. Kishana Taylor Read More »
I think we’ve settled on Maram Magazine as the name for the ‘making’ magazine I’m hoping to start. It will be a joint venture of Serendib Press and the Speculative Literature Foundation, which has recently redefined its mission somewhat, to a literature AND arts focus. (That gives us more leeway to do all kinds of
Hey, writers. For the 491 class I’m teaching this semester, I’ve been asking students to drop their business of writing questions to me, so that I can try to answer some of them as we have time in class. A LOT of them have questions about indie publishing, and given that much interest, I’m wondering
Questions on Indie Publishing Read More »
