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CFP: NEPCA SF and Fantasy CFP
2012 Conference of The Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association (NEPCA) St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York 26-27 October 2012 Proposals by 20 June 2012 (UPDATED) Proposals are invited from scholars of all levels for papers to be presented[...]
read moreNeil Gaiman delivers 2012 Commencement Address at the University of the Arts
Neil Gaiman spoke to the graduates of the colleges of Art, Media and Design and Performing Arts at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. It was his first ever such address. According to a press release from the university, it[...]
read moreCompton Crook Award Winner announced
The Compton Crook Award Winner for the 2012 prize is T. C. McCarthy for Germline, published by Orbit. The Compton Crook Award is presented to the best first novel of the year written by a single author: collaborations are not[...]
read moreFINALISTS: 2012 Campbell and Sturgeon Awards
The finalists for this year’s Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (honoring the best short science fiction or fantasy story published in 2011) and John W. Campbell Memorial Award (honoring the best science fiction novel of 2011) have just been announced. 2012[...]
read moreCongratulations SFWA Officers
The results of the SFWA officers’ election were announced during the 2012 Nebula Awards Weekend (May 17-20, 2012 in Arlington VA) at the SFWA business meeting. President: John Scalzi Vice President: Rachel Swirsky Secretary: Ann Leckie Treasurer: Bud Sparhawk West[...]
read moreFinalists for the 2012 SF&F Translation Awards
The Association for the Recognition of Excellence in SF & F Translation (ARESFFT) is delighted to announce the finalists for the 2012 Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Awards (for works published in 2011). There are two categories: Long Form and[...]
read moreNew Book Published – The Vampire Film: Undead Cinema
The Vampire Film: Undead Cinema by Jeffrey Weinstock is now available from Columbia University Press. It retails for $20 but if you are in North America and enter the code VAMWE you can get it for 30% off through CUP’s[...]
read morePreternature CFP
Preternature Volume 3:1 The Early Modern Witch (1450-1700) The publication of early witchcraft texts created witches by generating controversy about them. Witch-dramas, pamphlets, testimonies about witch-encounters, sermons, and accounts of trials published the anxieties, related the long standing suspicions, and[...]
read moreWhere the Wild Things Are author, Maurice Sendak, dies at age 83
Seminal children’s literature author, Maurice Sendak, died today from complications from a recent stroke. He is a Caldecott Medal winner and National Medal of Arts winner who illustrated more than 50 books but was best known for “Where the Wild[...]
read moreÜbergänge und Entgrenzungen in der Fantastik / Transitions and Dissolving Boundaries in the Fantastic
Invitation to the Third Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung (GFF), at the University of Zurich from 13th to 16th September 2012 The third conference of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung will take place at Zurich University, from 13th to[...]
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