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Oh, this is lovely — animator Brandon Hadnot sent along the first draft of a little video to open the Portolan Project interview videos, and it is so cool, I love it. I sent him back a few tweaks, but I think Brandon’s gotten remarkably close to my original brief already, and we’ll have a finished version

I’ll have a confirmed schedule of what panels I’m on tomorrow, I think, but a quick note that NASFiC’s virtual convention is FREE this coming weekend, so register! Look at the schedule once it’s posted! Put lots of interesting panels into your calendar to attend! And readings! And music! It’s going to be fun. (NASFiC

We’re proud to congratulate our outgoing Grants Administrator at the SLF, Malon Edwards, on being named an Ember Award finalist for the inaugural Ignyte Awards! Malon has done amazing service to the field for more than a decade as our grants administrator, and we’re so pleased to see him getting recognized for that unsung labor. I’m

August 2020—The Speculative Literature Foundation is pleased to announce that Carrie Callahan is the winner of the $1000 2020 Working Class Writers Grant. Callahan received the grant for her short story “The Zombie in the Yard.” She is also the recipient of a 2019 Writers of the Future Award for her short story “Dirt Road Magic,” which

It’s apparently my day for Facebook groups. I’ve started that writing accountability group I mentioned, tentatively named the writing shed. I’m making it part of the SLF’s Portolan Project, but in a very low-key way for now, so it’s not too much of a time commitment for me. Please feel free to join me —

I’m in a group for women and nonbinary writers with kids, and am seeing plaintive cries from people who are worried about maintaining writing careers this fall, in the midst of supervising e-learning, illness, etc. If you don’t need the writing income immediately, and you’re primarily worried about career-building, then honestly, I would say the