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SLF Monthly Newsletter

What's in this month's issue:

  • Diversity Grants open for submissions July 1-31
  • May 16 Deep Dish videos online
  • Latest MRAH podcast episodes 
  • SLF at 2024 Printers Row Lit Fest and World Fantasy Con
  • SLF welcomes new intern
  • Co-writing opportunities
  • Membership
  • Opportunities for writers
Diverse Writers and Diverse Worlds grants open July 1-31
The SLF offers two $500 diversity-centered grants intended to foster the creation of speculative fiction work rich in diversity. 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 the writing and publishing process. The Diverse Worlds grant is intended for work that best presents a diverse world, regardless of the writer’s background. Writers may apply for either or both grants.
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Deep Dish videos
If you missed our May 16 Deep Dish at Volumes, check out the videos! This event featured Alex Kingsley and Tina Jenkins Bell, with rapid-fire readers Jared Dennis, Gary Henderson, Jeremiah John, Allison Manley, Connor Nevitt, Darius Vinesar and John Weagly.
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Deep Dish videos
MRAH Podcast
MRAH Podcast
Have you checked out the SLF's podcast, Mohanraj and Rosenbaum Are Humans, lately? Recent episodes have featured authors Anya Johanna DeNiro, Ruthanna Emrys and Walter Jon Williams.
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SLF at 2024 Printers Row Lit Fest and World Fantasy Con
Join the SLF this fall at the 2024 Printers Row Lit Fest in Chicago and the 2024 World Fantasy Con in Niagara Falls! Look for more details coming soon.
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SLF welcomes new intern
The SLF welcomes our new intern, Connor Nevitt (he/him). Connor is a senior at the University of Illinois Chicago, majoring in English with a focus on creative writing.
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SLF welcomes new intern
Co-writing opportunities
The SLF hosts regular Saturday co-writing sessions from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. CDT. These sessions are for writers who would like support for their writing, and are currently open and free of charge to anyone interested in being a part of our writing community.
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Membership
Not a member yet? The SLF serves the speculative literature community through support from people like you. Members receive benefits including access to the SLF Discord, invitations to members-only panels, discounts on SLF events, programs and courses and more!
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Opportunities for writers

Loghaven Artist Residency invites writers of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, screenwriting and journalism in the creation stage of their project or work cycle to apply for an upcoming session. The residency includes room and board for the duration of the visit, as well as an $850 weekly living stipend and travel subsidy. There is a $20 non-refundable application fee. Learn more and apply by July 15 at loghaven.org.

The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Grant for Children’s and Young Adult Novelists is offered annually to an author of children’s or young adult fiction for a novel-in-progress. The award was developed to help writers whose work is of high literary caliber and assist a writer at a crucial moment in their career to complete their novel. The author of the winning manuscript will receive an award of $5,000. Applications will be accepted through Aug. 1 at pen.org/pen-phyllis-naylor-grant

The Speculative Literature Foundation is partially funded by grants from the Oak Park Area Arts Council, Village of Oak Park, Illinois Arts Council Agency, National Endowment for the Arts, Oak Park River Forest Community Foundation, Literary Arts Emergency Fund, supported by the Mellon Foundation (@MellonFdn), and The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association.