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SLF Monthly Newsletter

What's in this month's issue:

  • Working Class Writers Grant deadline Sept. 30
  • Fall Deep Dish events
  • SLF at 2024 Printers Row Lit Fest
  • Call for volunteers
  • Co-writing opportunities
  • Membership
  • Opportunities for writers
Working Class Writers Grant deadline Sept. 30
There is just one week left to apply for the 2024 Working Class Writers Grant! The application period for this year's Working Class Writers Grant is open through Sept. 30, 2024. The $1,000.00 Working Class Writers Grant is awarded annually to assist working class, blue-collar, poor, and homeless writers who have been historically underrepresented in speculative fiction, due to financial barriers.
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Deep Dish Reading Series
The next events in our Deep Dish Reading Series are in the works for October and November 2024! Chicagoland writers, join us at an upcoming Deep Dish to share your recent publication or work in progress. Fill out the form at the bottom of our Deep Dish page to learn more.
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Deep Dish Reading Series
SLF at 2024 Printers Row Lit Fest
SLF staff and volunteers enjoyed meeting dozens of new prospective SLF members at the 2024 Printers Row Lit Fest. We hope you stopped by to see us!
SLF at 2024 Printers Row Lit Fest
Call for volunteers
The SLF has in-person and remote volunteer opportunities for writers and readers who would like to help advance our mission and network with others in the spec lit community. Interested? Email Volunteer Coordinator Angeli Primlani at angeli@speculativeliterature.org to learn more.
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Join our writing community
The SLF hosts regular Saturday co-writing sessions from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Central. 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. These sessions are a great time to catch up on the writing you’ve been meaning to do, in the supportive presence of others doing the same.
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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, discounts on SLF events, programs and courses and more!
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Opportunities for writers

Lighthouse Works invites applications for 2025 fellowship program on Fishers Island, New YorkFellowships are six weeks in length, occur year-round and provide fellows with housing, food, studio space, and $1,750 in financial support. There is a $25 application fee. Learn more and apply by Oct. 1, 2024 at lighthouseworks.us/fellowship.

One Story invites applications from early-career writers for the Adina Talve-Goodman FellowshipThe program seeks writers whose work speaks to issues and experiences related to inhabiting bodies of difference. This means writing that centers, celebrates, or reclaims being marginalized through the lens of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, religion, illness, disability, trauma, migration, displacement, dispossession, or imprisonment. Fellows receive a year-long mentorship on the craft of fiction writing with One Story magazine and a $2,000 stipend. Learn more and apply by Oct. 9, 2024 at one-story.com/learn/fellowship.

The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts' Imagining Indigenous Futurisms Award recognizes emerging authors who use science fiction to address issues of Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination. Learn more and apply by Dec. 1. 2024 at iaftfita.wildapricot.org/Imagining-Indigenous-Futurisms-Award.

The Watermelon Grant offers $2,000 in unrestricted funds to an emerging Palestinian creator in the field of speculative arts. The 2025 grant considers works of speculative fiction and poetry. Learn more and apply by Dec. 6, 2024 at ldlewiswrites.com/watermelon-grant.

The Speculative Literature Foundation is partially funded by grants from the Oak Park Area Arts Council, Village of Oak Park, Illinois Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts, Oak Park River Forest Community Foundation and The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association.