SLF Update Re: Membership, Deep Dish Reading, and More
SLF Update Re: Membership, Deep Dish Reading, and More Hello everyone! You might have noticed already, but there has been lots going on at the SLF in the past couple of months. We updated and modernized our website, we’ve more than doubled our membership count with the Genesis Membership drive, and funded a Kickstarter for […]
Episode 39 of MRAH Out Now!
Ep. 39 of MRAH Out Now! Ep. 39 “Ted Chiang and the Metrics of Personhood” is out now on your podcast app of choice! This is kind of a surprise episode for season 1, as it’s coming out months after the season has technically ended. MRAH host Benjamin Rosenbaum has a conversation with celebrated writer […]
A Word From the Director re: March Membership Drive
A Word From the Director re: March Membership Drive The March Genesis Membership Drive is over. On the one hand, I’m glad that we have 50 new members – welcome, everyone! Lovely to have you join us! I started the SLF (Speculative Literature Foundation) back in 2004, when I was in a creative writing Ph.D. […]
Announcing the Winner of the 2021 Gulliver Travel Grant
The Speculative Literature Foundation is pleased to announce that Katie Hale is the winner of the 2021 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 […]
Announcing the Winner of the 2021 Working Class Writers Grant
The Speculative Literature Foundation is pleased to announce that Sarah Lyn Eaton is the winner of the 2021 Working Class Writers Grant. Since 2013, the Working Class Writers Grant has sought to aid working-class, poor, and homeless writers — a population whose work has historically gone underrepresented and underappreciated in speculative fiction. We strive to […]
SLF Call for Artists 2022
Hey, artists — the SLF is having another art contest, to choose our signature artwork for the next year! This time, the prize is $750. We’d just be licensing a non-exclusive right to use the work on our website and promotional materials; you’d hold the original and all other rights. Contest starts basically now, and […]
Mohanraj and Rosenbaum Are Humans Has Launched
Hello everyone! Today marks the official release of Mohanraj and Rosenbaum Are Humans, an SLF podcast about science fiction and fantasy, writing and publishing, community and culture, and what it means to be human. For more information about the podcast, visit the SLF Podcast: Mohanraj and Rosenbaum Are Humans page here on the website. You […]
Justin Clement Wins Speculative Literature Foundation’s 2020 Gulliver Travel Grant
Justin Clement is the winner of the 2020 Gulliver Travel Grant awarded by the Speculative Literature Foundation. The Gulliver Travel Grant, worth $1,000, is intended to assist writers of speculative fiction in research, and can be used to cover airfare, lodging, and other travel expenses. Clement, 23, is a Nigerian writer, who is surprised he […]
Announcing the Winners of the 2020 Diverse Writers Grant and 2020 Diverse Worlds Grant
The Speculative Literature Foundation is pleased to announce that Kanyinsola Olorunnisola is the winner of the 2020 Diverse Writers Grant and Tatiana Schlote-Bonne is the winner of the 2020 Diverse Worlds Grant. Olorunnisola was awarded the Diverse Writers Grant for his work “How Dead Men Come Back Home.” He is an experimental poet, essayist, and […]
Announcing the Winner of the 2020 A.C. Bose Grant
The Speculative Literature Foundation and DesiLit are pleased to announce that Asha Thanki is the winner of the 2020 A.C. Bose Grant. The A.C. Bose Grant, established in 2019, is an annual grant given to a South Asian/South Asian diaspora writer developing speculative fiction. It supports adult fiction, but work that is also accessible to […]
