The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the results of the election for its open officers’ positions. Lisa (L. Marie) Wood was elected Vice President. As previously announced, Michael Knost filled the role of Treasurer. Brian Keene was newly elected to the Board of Trustees, along with re-elected Trustees Lisa Kröger, Brian Matthews, and Angela Yuriko Smith.

The Speculative Literature Foundation (SLF) announced that Ysabelle Cheung has won the 2023 Diverse Writers Grant for “Please, Get Out and Dance”, and Edward Rathke the 2023 Diverse Worlds Grant for “The Wicked Flee”.

The Diverse Writers Grant is “intended to support new and emerging writers from underrepresented and underprivileged groups, such as writers of color, women, queer writers, disabled writers, working-class writers, etc. — those whose marginalized identities may ...Read More

Writing NSW has announced the recipients of its 2023 Diverse Writers Mentorship. Writers in the the program have the opportunity to work on a short story under the mentorship of writer Eugen Bacon and with the support of Writing NSW, with the eventual goal of publication. The nine selected writers are Celine Eigner, Tamara Haque, Michelle Huynh, Andrew John, Teneale Lavender, Hiromi Matsuoka, Annie McCann, Guan Un, and Cherry Zheng. ...Read More

The Virginia Kidd Agency and Arrowhead SF Foundation are running the sixth annual SF branch of the Milford Readers & Writers festival, to be held September 22-24, 2023 in Milford PA.

This year’s panel is “The Monsters That Make Us”, September 23, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. at the Pike County Library. The event will feature authors Carol Gyzander, Robert Levy,  Charles E. Gannon, Stephanie Feldman, and Karen Heuler as the ...Read More

Irenosen Okojie MBE, in collaboration with the British Library and the Royal Society of Literature, have announced the inaugural Black to the Future festival, an “Afro-Futurist celebration of outstanding Black artists, a space for visionary imaginings to thrive.”

The festival begins the end of October, and runs until February 2024, and accompanies the British Library’s Fantasy: Realms of Imagination exhibit. The theme for this year is Black Phantasmagoria. The festival ...Read More

The Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation has announced The Journey That Matters, a six-installment series of short films featuring never-before-seen footage of Le Guin discussing her life and childhood, her writing, and more, as well as interviews with adrienne maree brown, Julie Phillips, Nisi Shawl, and others.

The series was created by director Arwen Curry in collaboration with with the foundation. The shorts contain unused raw material from Curry’s ...Read More

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced that Maxwell I. Gold is the new executive director, replacing Brad Hodson. Gold was previously the treasurer for the HWA Board of Trustees; his role as treasurer will be filled by Michael Knost.

Gold said,

I am honored to have this opportunity to serve the Horror Writers Association in this capacity. The HWA is the oldest literary organization serving the horror and dark ...Read More

Artist Gregory Manchess created four new stamps for the US Postal Service to celebrate the winter holiday season:

Celebrating the spirit of the holidays, the U.S. Postal Service captures the playful pleasure of Christmas snow globes on four new stamps. Each Snow Globes stamp features an artist’s rendition of a wintertime or seasonal motif.

In each of the four stamps, artist Gregory Manchess used oil paint to reproduce the magic ...Read More

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has announced that poetry and translated fiction are now accepted as qualifying works for membership in the organization. The decision is the result of a vote by members to reverse previous referendums disallowing poetry and translated fiction from counting towards qualification.

We’re excited to welcome poets and translators into the fold, joining prose, game, comics, graphic novel, and screenwriters working on traditional, ...Read More

The Library of America is hosting an online panel, “The Enduring Genius of Ray Bradbury“, on July 19, 2023 from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. PDT.

The British Library has announced an upcoming exhibition titled Fantasy: Realms of Imagination.

From ancient texts to anime, Sir Gawain to The Sandman, fairy tales and films to graphic novels, video games and fan culture, this exhibition dives deep into some of fantasy literature’s defining moments. Spanning centuries and continents, the exhibition illustrates the varied ways in which readers are enchanted by fantasy, which can serve as both an escape ...Read More

The Board of Directors of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has released a statement on the use of AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) to produce text. The Board

has been monitoring the rapidly evolving technological and legal landscape as it pertains to machine-generated works. We continue to hold conversations inside our organization, as evidenced by our recent call for posts that brought in a wide variety ...Read More

Clarion West‘s largest annual fundraising event, the 2023 Write-a-thon, has opened registration. Participants set and work on six-week writing goals, and friends and family are encouraged to pledge donations in support. Participants will also have access to Write-a-thon events and the option to create an individual Write-a-thon fundraising page.

The Write-a-thon runs from June 25 to August 5, 2023, during the same time frame as Clarion West’s Six-Week Workshop. For ...Read More

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced that the submission window for HWA scholarships, grants, and endowments are open from June 1, 2023 to August 1, 2023. You do not need to be a member of the organization to apply.

Available programs include The Horror Writers Association Scholarship, The Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Scholarship, Diversity Grants, The Dark Poetry Scholarship, The Rocky Wood Memorial Scholarship for Non-fiction, The Dennis Etchison Young ...Read More