This is a very loosely formed idea, and I’m not sure we have the capacity for it, but help me think it through / poke holes in it. It’s coming out of three things: • This fall, however school works out, there’s clearly going to be a need for additional tutoring support for various students, …
Quick note that I’ll be on a Wild Cards panel for ReConvene’s virtual convention on August 15th. My panel will be at 4 p.m. EDT, with the fabulous Peadar Ó Guilín, Max Gladstone, David Anthony Durham, and Melinda M. Snodgrass. They are all brilliant, and this is going to be an awesome panel. “Give us your kings, queens, jacks, …
Quick note that I’ll be on a Wild Cards panel for ReConvene’s virtual convention on August 15th. My panel will be at 4 p.m. EDT, with the fabulous Peadar Ó Guilín, Max Gladstone, David Anthony Durham, and Melinda M. Snodgrass. They are all brilliant, and this is going to be an awesome panel. 🙂 “Give …
Folks, I could use help. I’m getting ready to do some serious work with the SLF in the coming weeks — we’re going to need some new volunteer grants administrators, but I also want to really focus on building out the Portolan Project creative writing & lit. teaching resources, which has a new urgency now …
*“But it’s really hard to learn and grow because the opportunities as a Black artist here are not significant. Part of that is there were never many Black venues. And largely white venues only booked certain types of things. You can be Black and play rock and still not get the rock club guild. And …
Quick note for SF/F writers. World Fantasy just e-mailed to announce that they’re cancelling and going virtual. I’m saddened that I won’t be going to Salt Lake City this fall, but I do think this was the wise decision (and taken out of their hands by the hotel cancelling.) Having just attended the Nebulas this …
Attending a virtual Nebula panel with Whitney Strix Beltrán, Ryan Schapals, etc. on narrative game design, and once again, talking with them makes me want to do more work in that arena. I am such a distracted ADD magpie! Ooh, pretty shiny! (Maybe I should go back to the idea of pitching a project to Choice of …
There’s something really satisfying about sewing Dr. Who toile masks (TARDIS and Dalek) while attending virtually the SFWA business meeting, listening to SFWA President Mary Robinette Kowal and worthy others talk about SFWA activities in general and the Nebula conference in particular (last weekend in May). I’m honestly really excited about the way SFWA and other orgs …
I’ve written to a possible donor about funding for the SLF that might allow me to put off doing a Portolan Project Kickstarter for a few months, which would be great; I could just focus on producing good work, rather than taking out time to raise money — it’d also mean that we would have …
Sometimes you just wake up full of don’t wanna, and I’m thankful that this morning, I don’t haveta. I have a university Zoom town hall at 10:30, talking about the fall semester (sigh). But until then, I’ve put on comfy pj’s, gotten myself coffee and meds and two seeni sambol buns, and returned to bed …
