I’m delighted, and slightly nervous, to announce that I’ve agreed to be Toastmaster at WindyCon, this Nov 11-13 in Lombard. I think this means I’m supposed to be mildly entertaining while announcing things, pronounce people’s names correctly, try my best to not say anything hurtful, and keep it short and snappy. I think I can […]
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Look what arrived in the mail today — the beautiful bookmarks Margaret Treanor Frey designed for the SLF, with inspirational writing quotes! If you come to one of our events (like, oh, the Deep Dish reading at the Bookcellar in Chicago TOMORROW), you can collect the whole set. Free! (We might also have mugs for
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Hey, folks. Here’s my ChiCon schedule. If you’re a friend attending (whether or not you’re on programming), would love to know you’re coming! I’m planning to mostly hang in the bar, whenever I’m not scheduled, per usual… ***** • Thursday, 9/1, 10 a.m. — Libraries in SFF — Airmeet 1 (which I assume means virtual)
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I heard the news about the attack on Salman Rushdie yesterday, that he’d been giving a reading at a peaceful literary event, and a young man rushed up on stage and stabbed him multiple times, including in the neck. When I first read the news, Rushdie was still in surgery, and it wasn’t clear if
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Hey, local writer folks — we’re starting up the SLF’s Deep Dish speculative fiction reading series again, yay! More about the series here: https://speculativeliterature.org/…/deep-dish-reading…/ We’re looking for a few more rapid-fire readers to join us for the first one; beginners welcome. You’d be reading for 3 minutes max! We request that you read something with
Hey, folks! Just a quick note that it’s my birthday — I’m 51! — and if you’d like to give me something, the best gift would be a donation of any size to my non-profit, the SLF. Donations go directly to helping us bridge to paid staff (the big goal for this year), which means
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Working on setting up courses at the SLF this morning. Exciting! I’m going to be taking this one. More info soon. ***** Intro to Screenwriting — 6 week online course ($350) Instructor: Ted Schneider September 6 – October 11 Tuesdays 6 – 8:30 CST Course Description: Instructor Bio:
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One of my goals for this summer is to try to re-establish good writing habits. For me, what’s worked best is going out to the shed in the morning. Some mornings I get there later, rather than sooner, but if I get out there at all, odds are, I’m going to write more than I
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I took a break from memoir revision to work on drafting some course guidelines for the SLF. We’re getting more and more requests for writing classes, which is great. I’m not sure how quickly we can implement these, but possibly as soon as this fall. ***** I’ve been envisioning a three-tier model for instruction at
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I interviewed Nicola Griffith at ICFA for the SLF; we talked about disability writing, historical research, her recent and upcoming books, and more! “What my work basically does, in Hild in particular, is, I call it “norming the other,” and I do that through creating narrative empathy. And I do that using focalized heterotopia, that
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