October 2024 Deep Dish Readings Uploaded
Our featured and rapid-fire readings from our October 2024 Deep Dish event have been uploaded! Make sure you subscribe to us on YouTube so you don’t miss future videos and content just like this great series of readings from the likes of Robert Kloss, Dawn Bonnano, Mary Anne Mohanraj, and more. Below you will find […]
2024 Diversity Grants Shortlist
Going forward, the SLF wants to highlight those who made it to our final round of jury deliberations. Here is our shortlist for our 2024 Diverse Writers and Diverse Worlds Grants! Korbin Richards Shelley Gaske Divya Kernan Rebecca Wilcox Habiba Dokubo-Asari Joni Chng CJ Basilios Sheila Garcia Mazari
Announcing the Winner of the 2024 Diverse Worlds Grant
The Speculative Literature Foundation is pleased to announce that Levi Abadilla is the winner of our 2024 Diverse Worlds Grant. The Diverse Worlds grant is intended for work that best presents a diverse world, regardless of the writer’s background. Abadilla’s winning piece is The God Machine. Levi Abadilla is a queer Filipino author who grew up […]
Announcing the Winner of the 2024 Diverse Writers Grant
The Speculative Literature Foundation is pleased to announce that Adia Reynolds is the winner of our 2024 Diverse Writers Grant. The Diverse Writers grant is intended to support speculative fiction writers from underrepresented and underprivileged groups — such as writers of color, women, queer writers, disabled writers, etc. — whose marginalized identities may present additional obstacles in […]
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 […]
2023 Working Class Writers Grant
The Speculative Literature Foundation is pleased to announce Deirra Clyburn as the winner of the 2023 Working Class Writers Grant. The Working Class Writers Grant intends to support speculative fiction writers who are working class, blue-collar, financially disadvantaged, or homeless, who have been historically underrepresented in speculative fiction due to financial barriers which make it hard […]
