New Deep Dive: Richard J. Chwedyk on the Five Elements of Short Stories
New Deep Dive: Richard J. Chwedyk on the Five Elements of Short Stories Check out our most recent Deep Dive interview with writer and educator, Richard J. Chwedyk, who talked about the five key elements that make short stories tick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvvH7pBfi78 “Great editors very often are people who will leave you alone. They will let […]
Announcing the Winner of the 2024 A.C. Bose Grant The Speculative Literature Foundation is pleased to announce that Vineetha Mokkil is the winner of the 2024 A.C. Bose Grant. In 2019, the Speculative Literature Foundation and DesiLit co-sponsored the A.C. Bose Grant in memory of Ashim Chandra Bose, a lover of books—especially science fiction and […]
2024 Illustration of the Year Winner Angela Hedrick
2024 Illustration of the Year Winner Angela Hedrick Thank you Angela Hedrick, for your wonderful submission to the SLF’s 2023 Illustration of the Year, “Pursuit.” Look for Hedrick’s artwork on our site, as well as future SLF newsletters, promo, and other content! What inspired me to create “Pursuit” was the idea of mixing science fiction, […]
Announcing the Winner of the 2023 Gulliver Travel Grant
Announcing the Winner of the 2023 Gulliver Travel Grant The Speculative Literature Foundation is pleased to announce that Sohini Basak is the winner of the 2023 Gulliver Travel Grant. Since 2004, the Gulliver Travel Grant has sought to assist writers of speculative literature (in fiction, poetry, drama, or creative nonfiction) in their research. The grant […]
A Letter to 2023
A Letter to 2023 Dear SF/F Writing & Reading Community, I’m writing to you at the eleventh hour — literally, 30 minutes to midnight in Chicago on December 31st, 2023 — with the Speculative Literature Foundation’s year-end letter. That’s perhaps characteristic of the last few years — like many folks, we’ve found recent times pretty […]
March 16, 2023 Deep Dish
March 16, 2023 Deep Dish The first Deep Dish reading event of the year is coming up, next week Thursday March 16, at 6:30 PM CST. If you’re in the Chicago area, and want to see some great readers in action, come to Volumes Book Café in Wicker Park. Featured readers include Tara Betts, Yvette […]
Mary Anne Mohanraj to Teach at the 2023 Speculative Fiction Novel Bookcamp
Pleased to note that I’ll be teaching for a week at the 2023 Speculative Fiction Novel Bookcamp this August 13-19 at the Siena Retreat Center in Racine, Wisconsin. More details below: ***** 2023 Speculative Fiction Novel Bookcamp Staff Announcement NEWS RELEASE Novel Bookcamp Dave Rank, director director@novelbookcamp http://www.novelbookcamp.org Award-winning Staff Named for 2023 Bookcamp RACINE, […]
2022 Year-End Letter
2022 Year-End Letter Dear SF/F Writing & Reading Community, This is the Speculative Literature Foundation’s end-of-year / start-of-year letter, where I try to recap a little of what we’ve been doing this last year – and really, the last couple of years, because I haven’t written one of these letters in a while. It’s been […]
6 Things We Learned at ChiCon8
Two weeks ago, the SLF went to ChiCon8, the 80th World Science Fiction Convention. Here are some things we learned: 1.) If you find out early enough that you’re going to WorldCon, check out the nominees. Read (or watch) the works on there if you haven’t already, and then vote for them! That way, you […]
Search For Brightness: On Salmon Rushdie’s Attack
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 […]
