The Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction has announced the third annual Sturgeon Symposium, to be held October 17-18, 2024 at the University of Kansas in Lawrence KS.

The Symposium is celebrating Samuel R. Delany, who “has redefined the boundaries of SFF as well as literary criticism through his explorations of language, society, sexuality, and narrative form. This year’s symposium acknowledges his lasting impact on science fiction, speculative ...Read More

Locus magazine has a long history in our field; from a one-page zine founded to support a Worldcon bid, it has grown to become the premier industry magazine for science fiction and fantasy publishing. For decades, they’ve covered the news from authors signing with agents to sales of books to ...Read More

Kat Clay and Ian Nichols of Australia are the candidates for the 2024 Going Under Fan Fund (GUFF), which will send fans from Oceania to Europe to attend Glasgow 2024: A Worldcon for our Futures, the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention, to be held August 8-12, 2024 in Glasgow, Scotland.

Voting is open until April 22, 2024. For more information, see the GUFF website.

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced their Summer Scares Reading list for 2024.

Lavie Tidhar has written a seven-part animated series, Mars Machines, “an absurdist buddy comedy set in a kitchen on Mars, where every appliance hides a dark secret,” animated and scored by Nir Yaniv and produced by Yaniv’s company Postironish. The first four episodes are up now, with more released weekly.

For more, see the Positronish website.

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The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has opened applications their 2024 career mentoring program, seeking both mentors and mentees. The program is “is an all-volunteer service provided free of charge… with the objective of providing community, sharing knowledge, and offering networking opportunities.”

Applications are open from February 13 to February 27, 2024 at 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

For more information, or to apply, see the announcement on the ...Read More

Simon & Schuster has compiled a list of the 100 most influential titles published during the company’s history, as part of its 100th anniversary celebrations. Several works of genre interest were listed, including:

Another spin around the ole ball of fire and we’re back to our annual Recommended Reading List for 2023! Published in Locus magazine’s February 2024 issue, the list is put together by Locus editors, columnists, outside reviewers, and other professionals and well-known critics of genre fiction and non-fiction. We looked at 1,012 titles from 2023 in short fiction and long fiction. The ...Read More

The New York Public Library (NYPL), the Brooklyn Public Library, and the Queens Public Library have each released lists of their most-borrowed books of 2023.

The most borrowed book for Queens Public Library was Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (Entangled); and Yellowface by R.F. Kuang (William Morrow) was one of the top checkouts at NYPL. Featured books across all three systems included Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin ...Read More

Ellen Datlow is accepting submissions for her 17th Best Horror of the Year anthology, to be published by Night Shade Books and covering material appearing in 2024.

I am looking for stories and poetry from all branches of horror: supernatural, uncanny, sf horror, psychological, dark crime, terror tales, or anything else that might qualify. This is an all reprint anthology, so I’ll only consider material published in 2024. Deadline is ...Read More

Author Diana L. Paxson, 80, and her son Ian Grey were attacked at home in Berkeley CA on December 8, 2023, sustaining minor injuries. Diana and her son were hospitalized following the assault, but were released on Sunday and are now recovering.

The assailant was arrested on December 12 by the Oakland Police Department and is being held without bail.

On Facebook, Paxson said the attacker was a member of ...Read More

Premee Mohamed has been named a 2024 Writer-In-Residence at Edmonton Public Library (EPL) in Edmonton, Canada, and will mentor local writers and facilitate community programs.

Mohamed said, “I am honoured to be chosen as the EPL’s next Writer in Residence, particularly because I would never be where I am today without a lifetime of accessing Edmonton’s amazing library resources…. I am excited to support creators working in all formats and ...Read More

OD Ekpeki Presents has announced a submissions call for Indopantheology: Stories from the Spiritual Margins, a new anthology co-edited by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Rimi B. Chatterjee & Mary Anne Mohanraj. Submissions are open until March 31, 2024.

Indopantheology maps the realm of the spiritual imagination, comprising all soul-matters from the most worldly of dreams to the most numinous of visions. If that is what you wish to explore, then ...Read More

The Washington Post has released its list of the best science fiction and fantasy novels of 2023, as chosen by Charlie Jane Anders.

OD Ekpeki Presents has announced a submissions call for Between Dystopias: The Passage To Caribbean Pantheology, a new anthology co-edited by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Tonya Liburd, E.G. Condé, and Fabrice Guerrier. Submissions are open from October 16 to February 11, 2024.

We define Caribbean Pantheology as stories spoken, sung, or written that evoke the wonder, horror, and joy of the Caribbean experience. Caribbean Pantheology will receive, read, translate and ...Read More

Publishers Weekly has announced its list of the best books of 2023, divided into 13 categories.

Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park (Random House) was on the overall Top 10 list.

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