SF/F folks, please read. Probably of interest to lit. people generally, esp. those involved with running literary festivals. I think Cheryl Myfanwy Morgan has done a terrific job of both summing up some of the major issues with WorldCon currently, and suggesting a constructive path forwards. I particularly STRONGLY support future WorldCons committing to a solid online […]
Delighted to note that the SLF has a new Bay Area chapter. A proper press release is in the works with more details, but I wanted to take a moment to point y’all to their Meet-up group: https://www.meetup.com/Speculative-Literature-Foundation-Sa… Open to all creators, publishers, producers, sellers, or supporters of the speculative fiction genres. Readers, this means
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“Growing up with games was sort of my pathway to self exploration. Building my own competence. Role-playing allows you to explore identities that are not your own, but also to maybe form your identity better, with less of the fear that you’re gonna be judged because you’re not playing yourself, you’re playing a character and
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So, I’m starting to build out the Portolan Project a little more for the SLF, thinking through what it would look like if I used the interviews we’ve done (http://speculativeliterature.org/portolan-project/) as cores for free online learning modules in creative writing and lit. I’m planning to take one of the interviews on Monday (maybe Paolo Bacigalupi
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I got a little behind in posting these, so you’re getting three in a row — yesterday, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, today, Vida Cruz, tomorrow Ajit George and S.B. Divya. “Surreal, you know? A lot happens in one week [at Writers of the Future]; there was a lot of good stuff. And there was also a lot
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“[T]here also anxieties about security in Mexico, and in many parts of Latin America, Central America — we have a very insecure situation, with drugs, with cartels, with police attacking the population rather than defending them. So that’s reflected, obviously, in the writing. That’s why we have a thriving thriller scene in Latin America, because
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Recorded a great episode of the podcast with Benjamin Rosenbaum this morning, think we’re really getting into some nitty-gritty stuff that will be hopefully useful and of interest to writers. . Hoping to start releasing those soon, at least teasers. I think my framing of all this has also finally crystallized. When I started the summer, there was
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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,
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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
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