2024 Illustration of the Year Winner Angela Hedrick

2024 Illustration of the Year Winner Angela Hedrick Thank you Angela Hedrick, for your wonderful submission to the SLF’s 2023 Illustration of the Year, “Pursuit.” Look for Hedrick’s artwork on our site, as well as future SLF newsletters, promo, and other content! What inspired me to create “Pursuit” was the idea of mixing science fiction, […]

Announcing the Winner of the 2023 Gulliver Travel Grant

Announcing the Winner of the 2023 Gulliver Travel Grant The Speculative Literature Foundation is pleased to announce that Sohini Basak is the winner of the 2023 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 […]

A Letter to 2023

A Letter to 2023 Dear SF/F Writing & Reading Community, I’m writing to you at the eleventh hour — literally, 30 minutes to midnight in Chicago on December 31st, 2023 — with the Speculative Literature Foundation’s year-end letter. That’s perhaps characteristic of the last few years — like many folks, we’ve found recent times pretty […]

March 16, 2023 Deep Dish

March 16, 2023 Deep Dish The first Deep Dish reading event of the year is coming up, next week Thursday March 16, at 6:30 PM CST. If you’re in the Chicago area, and want to see some great readers in action, come to Volumes Book Café in Wicker Park. Featured readers include Tara Betts, Yvette […]

Mary Anne Mohanraj to Teach at the 2023 Speculative Fiction Novel Bookcamp

Pleased to note that I’ll be teaching for a week at the 2023 Speculative Fiction Novel Bookcamp this August 13-19 at the Siena Retreat Center in Racine, Wisconsin. More details below: ***** 2023 Speculative Fiction Novel Bookcamp Staff Announcement NEWS RELEASE Novel Bookcamp Dave Rank, director director@novelbookcamp http://www.novelbookcamp.org Award-winning Staff Named for 2023 Bookcamp RACINE, […]

2022 Year-End Letter

2022 Year-End Letter Dear SF/F Writing & Reading Community, This is the Speculative Literature Foundation’s end-of-year / start-of-year letter, where I try to recap a little of what we’ve been doing this last year – and really, the last couple of years, because I haven’t written one of these letters in a while. It’s been […]

Search For Brightness: On Salmon Rushdie’s Attack

I heard the news about the attack on Salman Rushdie yesterday, that he’d been giving a reading at a peaceful literary event, and a young man rushed up on stage and stabbed him multiple times, including in the neck. When I first read the news, Rushdie was still in surgery, and it wasn’t clear if […]

A Report from Calabar

A Report from Calabar We just received a fascinating report from Justin Clement, winner of our 2020 Travel Grant, on his travels in Calabar, Nigeria.  We’d like to share it with you. Stone Faces in Far Places I’d received the heads up from a friend of mine living in Calabar that Ikom was at least […]

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 […]

Our Portolan Project Kickstarter Has Funded!

We’re so thrilled that we’ve raised more than $5000 dollars and met our funding goal (on the final day, whew!), and we’re looking forward to start working on fulfilling all those lovely rewards. For all those who backed the project or helped spread the word, thank you so much for your support, and we hope […]