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 […]

Announcing the Winner of the 2020 Older Writers Grant

The Speculative Literature Foundation is pleased to announce that Kiran Kaur Saini is the winner of the 2020 Older Writers Grant. Graham Robert Scott, Jeff Reynolds, and S.E. Greco received Honorable Mentions. Kiran Kaur Saini is a writer of speculative and literary fiction whose short stories have appeared in Glimmer Train, Pleiades, and The Tahoma […]

Announcing the Winner of the 2019 Working Class Writers Grant

The Speculative Literature Foundation is pleased to announce that Carrie Callahan is the winner of the 2020 Working Class Writers Grant. Callahan received the grant for her short story “The Zombie in the Yard.” She is also the recipient of a 2019 Writers of the Future Award for her short story “Dirt Road Magic,” which […]

Email to staffers on remote communication

This is the e-mail I just sent my non-profit & small press teams, sharing in case it’s helpful as a model (and as always, if you’d like to come volunteer with the SLF, we’d love to have you — we’re trying to get organized to better put people on projects now): ***** Hey, everyone. Sorry […]

Continuing a conversation from a panel

I hosted a panel on SF/F nonprofit administration; a lot of people took a lot of notes, which makes me think that it would be good to continue that conversation. I’d like to see it becoming more of a staple at other conventions, but in the meantime, esp. with many people pausing travel, I wonder […]

Apply for Our Grants!!!

The Speculative Literature Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2020 Older Writers Grant and A.C. Bose Grant for South Asian Speculative Literature.  Applications will be open through March 31st, 2020. The $1,000 Older Writers Grant is awarded annually to a writer who is fifty years of age or older at the time of grant […]