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, […]
Announcing the Winner of the 2022 Gulliver Travel Grant
The Speculative Literature Foundation is pleased to announce that Em North is the winner of the 2022 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 awards one writer $1000 annually, to be used to […]
2023 Illustration of the Year Winner Sejuti Bala
2023 Illustration of the Year Winner Sejuti Bala Thank you Sejuti Bala, for your wonderful submission to the SLF’s 2023 Illustration of the Year, “Cosmic Swimmers.” Look for Bala’s artwork on our site, as well as future SLF newsletters, promo, and other content! “I have always thought of deep sea and deep space as two […]
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 […]
Our Deep Dish Reading Series Is Back
Our Deep Dish Reading Series Is Back We first started the Deep Dish reading series in the October of 2017, with SFWA and the CNSC, (Chicago Nerds Social Club), hosting it primarily at Volumes bookstore and cafe. Our mission with this speculative reading series was, and still is, to build up and unite Chicago’s scattered […]
Announcing the Winners of the 2022 Diverse Writers and Diverse Worlds Grants
The Speculative Literature Foundation is pleased to announce Khalifaziz B. as the winner of the 2022 Diverse Writers Grant and Ash Huang as the winner of the 2022 Diverse Worlds Grant. Since 2014, the SLF has strived to reward works rich in diversity in two ways. The Diverse Writers Grant supports voices from underrepresented groups […]
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 […]
Announcing the Winner of the 2022 Older Writers’ Grant
The Speculative Literature Foundation is pleased to announce that Terence Kuch is the 2022 Older Writers’ Grant winner. Kuch received the grant for his work “Westers.” Terence Kuch’s fiction, poetry, humor, and creative non-fiction have been published in the U.S., England, Canada, France, Luxembourg, Ireland, Australia, and Thailand, appearing in numerous periodicals including The […]
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 […]
