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2ND BRAM STOKER BIRTHDAY LECTURE
Dear Colleagues, I’d like to draw your attention to this forthcoming Bram Stoker event in Whitby: 2ND BRAM STOKER BIRTHDAY LECTURE (PROF. SIR CHRISTOPHER FRAYLING) AND SYMPOSIUM, WHITBY MUSEUM, 8 NOVEMBER The 2nd Bram Stoker Birthday Lecture and Symposium will[...]
read moreJournal Launch
Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to pass on the announcement of the launch of the first issue of the new journal Alambique: revista académica de ciencia ficción y fantasía /Jornal acadêmico de ficção científica e fantasia [Alambique: Academic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy].[...]
read moreObituary: Martha Bartter
Martha Bartter, 80, a longtime member of IAFA and perhaps its longest serving treasurer from 1995-2003, died on June 18 following an automobile accident in Kirksville, Mo., where she was a retired professor of English at Truman State University. She[...]
read moreNew York Review of Science Fiction #300
Special Anniversary Issue: On Wolfe’s Genius; Maps and Blank Spaces; Ghosts, Living and Otherwise; Cynthia Asquith’s Ghosts; Ursula K. Le Guin’s short fiction, in depth; Bruce McAllister’s magic; Deep sea puppets; Scalzi’s metafictions; and a passel of screed! From the[...]
read moreCFP for Special Issue of Composition Studies
Theme: Comics, Multimodality, and Composition For 43.1 (Spring 2015) Guest Editor: Dale Jacobs, University of Windsor DESCRIPTION Over the past ten years, composition has increasingly embraced writing and reading in multiple modes (words, but also images, sounds, video, spatial relationships, gestures, and[...]
read moreCFP: Panel on Sexuality in Science/Speculative and Fantasy Fiction
For a panel on the academic track at Loncon3 – the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention: http://academicloncon3.wordpress.com/ Science/Speculative and Fantasy fiction are genres in which many things (arguably anything) is possible. This ought to include exploring alternatives to normative[...]
read moreCFP: War Gothic
For a book-length collection entitled War Gothic, we invite essays on the intersection of the gothic tradition in literature, art, cinema, television, as well as in visual and digital media, with the representation of war and the military in its[...]
read moreCFP for Edited Collection: Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Popular Fantasy
Proposals are invited for essays which explore non-normative representations of gender and sexuality in a range of contemporary popular fantasy, including, but not limited to: tv episodes and series, films, computer games and MMORPGs, novels and short stories, comics and[...]
read moreTHE 2014 DELL MAGAZINES AWARD
The 2014 Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing is now open for submissions. Please note there is a class-project category. Guidelines follow: THE 2014 DELL MAGAZINES AWARD For Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and[...]
read moreThe Real Genre Middle Ages
How does twenty-first century genre-literature engage with the history and literature of the Middle Ages? This session invites submissions which explore genre medievalisms from any angle. How do contemporary social and cultural trends and concerns intersect with the medieval[...]
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