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
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Back when we could still meet in person, I was privileged to host a conversation about community, writing, and publishing with writer/professor Nalo Hopkinson, writer/professor Andrea Hairston, and writer/editor Sheree Renée Thomas (who has recently taken over as editor at F&SF). Enjoy these brilliant women conversing, as part of the SLF’s Portolan Project! Click here
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Okay, so here’s an idea I’d like to bounce off y’all. I was listening to Gary Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan’s Coode Street podcast, and they were interviewing Lisa Goldstein. A great interview, but at one point, she mentioned that her work wasn’t getting the attention it used to, and she didn’t really know why. The
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Why pour hours and hours of your life into this project? It started because I always have the most interesting conversations with Benjamin Rosenbaum, and I thought others might enjoy them. But that alone wouldn’t have been enough to sustain the project. I realized that what is actually important about this podcast has to do
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Woot! Kickstarter for the podcast I’m doing with Benjamin Rosenbaum has passed the halfway mark — we’re now at $920 out of $1500 goal. If we can get to $1000 by the end of today (Sunday), I will be more confident that we’ll actually make it to $1500 in time — four days left! Eep.
Do you want to hear me and Benjamin Rosenbaum talking to fascinating writers, editors, agents, game designers, librarians, and more? Every week, our dulcet tones could be filling your ears. We’d be accompanying you on your commute, keeping you company as you do chores, entertaining you while you weed the garden, and helping fill insomniac
The Speculative Literature Foundation is pleased to announce that Kanyinsola Olorunnisola is the winner of the 2020 Diverse Writers Grant and Tatiana Schlote-Bonne is the winner of the 2020 Diverse Worlds Grant. Olorunnisola was awarded the Diverse Writers Grant for his work “How Dead Men Come Back Home.” He is an experimental poet, essayist, and
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Hey, folks, it’s Giving Tuesday. I will try to do a proper SLF-related post soon (we’d love for you to become members!), but for the moment, let me remind you that there’s just 8 days left on our podcast Kickstarter! Eep. We’ve raised close to $500, but have $1000 left to raise in the next
I hope people are interested in two-hour in-depth lit-crit-ish interviews with authors, because we just did our first session with Cadwell Turnbull and we basically couldn’t stop talking to him. (We let him talk some too.). Mohanraj and Rosenbaum are Humans, the podcast that goes on, and on, and on… If this sounds good to
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