2025 SLF Illustration of the Year, “Star Thief" by Flore Picard

What's in this month's issue:

• Gulliver Travel Research Grant opens Nov. 1
• New episodes of Mohanraj and Rosenbaum are Humans
• October Deep Dish events
• Call for jurors
• Join our co-writing community
• Membership
• Opportunities for writers

The Carl Brandon Society invites BIPOC authors to register for the live, two-day Zoom workshop "How To Finish Your Novel – A Weekend Workshop with Suyi Davies Okungbowa." This live class is for BIPOC writers at any stage of their career. There are a number of full scholarship seats available. The class will take place Nov. 29 - 30, 2025 from  5-7:30 p.m. UTC. Learn more and register at carlbrandon.org/classes/how-to-finish-your-novel-2025.

Bridge, Chicago's independent, intersectional not for profit organization for art and public scholarship, invites submissions for for the next volume of the Bridge Journal. Bridge welcomes submissions in poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction, visual art, cultural criticism, design, and hybrid work from established as well as emerging writers and artists. Learn more and submit by Nov. 30 at bridge.submittable.com/submit.

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 at iaftfita.wildapricot.org/Imagining-Indigenous-Futurisms-Award.

The Speculative Literature Foundation is partially funded by the Oak Park Area Arts Council, in partnership with the Village of Oak Park; the Illinois Arts Council; the Oak Park River Forest Community Foundation; and The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association.