Upcoming Reading October 3rd!

Deep Dish Reading Thursday | October 3rd | 7 – 8:30 p.m. Volumes Book Cafe 1474 N. Milwaukee | Chicago IL Featured Readers: Silvia Moreno-Garcia Jane Rosenberg LaForge Scott Huggins Rapid-fire Readers: Sue Burke  Mary Anne Mohanraj   Jeremy John Anaea Lay All are welcome! Find out more..

Listening to the Coode Street podcast

Listening to the Coode Street podcast with Gary Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan and thinking about how well it pairs with some of the other fabulous podcasts that are more focused on NEW! EXCITING! writers. Maybe it’s the teacher in me, but I think a lot of genre writers could benefit from the perspective they’re bringing to their conversation, the […]

Naming things is very hard

Naming things is v. hard. Help? The SLF is starting an interview series, which I’ll be talking more about soon, at great length, I imagine. My hope is to build a massive archive of craft and oral history interviews that will be an INCREDIBLE resource for the field. We’ve just recorded the first set of […]

WorldCon in Dublin panel schedule

My WorldCon in Dublin panel schedule: Wild Cards, SF in Higher Ed, Protest and Resistance in Fiction and Reality, Polyamory in Theory and Practice. Details below. ***** • THURSDAY, 15 AUGUST, 2:00pm – 3:30 pm. Wild Cards Program Item, details TBD. • 17 Aug 2019, Saturday 15:00 – 15:50, Wicklow Room-2 (CCD) The Use of […]

Our Director talks with LitHub on Fiction/Non/Fiction

I was honored to be on the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast as part of their 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 celebration. We talked about all kinds of things — the role of science fiction in inspiring a better future, what happens when the real world outpaces your science fictional imaginings, the ways in which nationalism can fuel […]

Lineup for August 8 Deep Dish SF/F

Excited to note we’ve finalized the line-up for the SLF’s August 8th Deep Dish SF/F reading in Chicago! Please join us for a fabulous reading (and we usually go out for drinks afterwards down the block, which you’re welcome to join us for as well) with: Featured Readers: Scott Woods S.L. Huang TJ Martinson Rapid […]

Timelines and autonomy

Part of what I’m thinking about this morning is why it was relatively easy to set up volunteers that put in a lot of consistent work at the various magazines, and why that’s been more challenging with the non-profit orgs. Lots of reasons, but I think two of them have to do with timelines and […]

Locus Award to SLF Director

Here is my attempt to recreate my speech, on receiving the Locus Special Award for Community Outreach & Development. I was tremendously moved when I got the letter from Locus telling me about the award and asking whether I might be able to make it to Seattle to accept in person. It’s very nice to […]

New graphic for 2019!

We’re delighted to unveil our new graphic for 2019, “Pre-Flight Check-In,” by Margaret Treanor Frey.  Donors to the SLF will receive a copy of the image suitable for background wallpaper and screensavers.  See more of Frey’s work at her website, http://treanorfrey.com/dir/.

Deep Dish October 2018

Chicago Deep Dish October 2018 Photos and videos of the Deep Dish Chicago reading from October 2018! The show featured Alec Nevala-Lee and Cory Doctorow with readings from Laura Young, Gordon Dymowski, Terry Galvan, Emily Capettini, and Shane Hope.  Alec Nevala-Lee https://youtu.be/k_pPNOeMtL4https://youtu.be/ejFOeUppuM4 Emily Capettini Gordon Dymowski https://youtu.be/2zHTEuf5pcUhttps://youtu.be/f5NGihSOPxk Shane Hope Laura Young https://youtu.be/zNCIxrv8pDkhttps://youtu.be/QlJBfsbYWn4 Terry Galvan Cory […]