Our Deep Dish Reading Series Is Back
Our Deep Dish Reading Series Is Back We first started the Deep Dish reading series in the October of 2017, with SFWA and the CNSC, (Chicago Nerds Social Club), hosting it primarily at Volumes bookstore and cafe. Our mission with this speculative reading series was, and still is, to build up and unite Chicago’s scattered […]
Announcing the Winners of the 2022 Diverse Writers and Diverse Worlds Grants
The Speculative Literature Foundation is pleased to announce Khalifaziz B. as the winner of the 2022 Diverse Writers Grant and Ash Huang as the winner of the 2022 Diverse Worlds Grant. Since 2014, the SLF has strived to reward works rich in diversity in two ways. The Diverse Writers Grant supports voices from underrepresented groups […]
6 Things We Learned at ChiCon8
Two weeks ago, the SLF went to ChiCon8, the 80th World Science Fiction Convention. Here are some things we learned: 1.) If you find out early enough that you’re going to WorldCon, check out the nominees. Read (or watch) the works on there if you haven’t already, and then vote for them! That way, you […]
Announcing the Winner of the 2022 Older Writers’ Grant
The Speculative Literature Foundation is pleased to announce that Terence Kuch is the 2022 Older Writers’ Grant winner. Kuch received the grant for his work “Westers.” Terence Kuch’s fiction, poetry, humor, and creative non-fiction have been published in the U.S., England, Canada, France, Luxembourg, Ireland, Australia, and Thailand, appearing in numerous periodicals including The […]
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 […]
SLF Update Re: Membership, Deep Dish Reading, and More
SLF Update Re: Membership, Deep Dish Reading, and More Hello everyone! You might have noticed already, but there has been lots going on at the SLF in the past couple of months. We updated and modernized our website, we’ve more than doubled our membership count with the Genesis Membership drive, and funded a Kickstarter for […]
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 […]
A Word From the Director re: March Membership Drive
A Word From the Director re: March Membership Drive The March Genesis Membership Drive is over. On the one hand, I’m glad that we have 50 new members – welcome, everyone! Lovely to have you join us! I started the SLF (Speculative Literature Foundation) back in 2004, when I was in a creative writing Ph.D. […]
Announcing the Winner of the 2021 Gulliver Travel Grant
The Speculative Literature Foundation is pleased to announce that Katie Hale is the winner of the 2021 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 awards one writer $1000 annually, to be used to […]
Announcing the Winner of the 2021 Working Class Writers Grant
The Speculative Literature Foundation is pleased to announce that Sarah Lyn Eaton is the winner of the 2021 Working Class Writers Grant. Since 2013, the Working Class Writers Grant has sought to aid working-class, poor, and homeless writers — a population whose work has historically gone underrepresented and underappreciated in speculative fiction. We strive to […]
