The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) has banned all works created using generative AI from its publications and awards consideration. The policy was announced in a statement posted to the SFPA website: “The SFPA recognizes and supports the creative talent of human beings. While the organization encourages creative exploration of new tools, we can not support the use of tools built on the exploitation of other people’s creative ...Read More

The Virginia Kidd Agency/Arrowhead SF Foundation will once again sponsor and host the SF Portion of the annual Milford Readers & Writers Festival, to be held September 13-15 2024 in Milford PA, with a few of the events hosted at Arrowhead,Virginia Kidd’s historic home (and still the offices of her eponymous agency.) This year’s panel is “Mil­ford: Why Our Town Was/Is a Mecca For Science Fiction”, with panelists Lawrence C. ...Read More

Pembroke College, Oxford has unveiled a memorial to J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973). Tolkien was the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the college from 1925 to 1945, during which time he wrote The Hobbit and other works.

The memorial consists of a bronze sculpture created by Tolkien’s grand-nephew, Tim Tolkien. Neil Gaiman was the master of ceremonies for the unveiling in June 2024, and Roz Kaveney (a Pembroke alum) read ...Read More

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has announced the results of its election for open positions.

For more, see the announcement on File 770.

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Portland OR non-profit Literary Arts has announced that the home of late SF Grandmaster Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) will become the site of the Ursula K. Le Guin Writers Residency, in accordance with Le Guin’s wishes.

The Le Guin family donated the home in Northwest Portland to the organization. Le Guin wrote many of her most famous works in the second-floor writing studio of the house, which she and ...Read More

The Free Library of Philadelphia has announced “Pride Month: How Science Fiction Dances to the Music of Time”:

Samuel R. Delany speaks with Music Department library trainee & Hollywood indie film composer Mark Inchoco on the intersections between science fiction & music. Hear how great musicians, libret­tists, & musical events such as Cab Cal­loway, Pete Seeger, the Newport Folk Fes­tival, Igor Stravinsky, Bob Dylan, Samuel Barber, Leontyne Price, & Macy ...Read More

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) has banned all works created using generative AI from its publications and awards consideration. The policy was announced in a statement posted to the SFPA website.

The SFPA recognizes and supports the creative talent of human beings. While the organization encourages creative exploration of new tools, we can not support the use of tools built on the exploitation of other people’s creative ...Read More

Eugen Bacon has been named the 2024 Hedberg Writer-In-Residence at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, Australia. Bacon will spend three months writing, teaching, and “taking part in community conversations,” and plans to work on researching and writing a new novel.

Bacon said, “In writing this black speculative novel, I hope to continue engaging with difference in cross-cultural worlds, climate action, social justice and developing culturally diverse and female characters ...Read More

The Free Library of Philadelphia has announced “Pride Month: How Science Fiction Dances to the Music of Time”:

Samuel R. Delany speaks with Music Department library trainee & Hollywood indie film composer Mark Inchoco on the intersections between science fiction & music. Hear how great musicians, librettists, & musical events such as Cab Calloway, Pete Seeger, the Newport Folk Festival, Igor Stravinsky, Bob Dylan, Samuel Barber, Leontyne Price, & Macy ...Read More

Kat Clay has won the 2024 Going Under Fan Fund (GUFF), intended to send one fan from Australasia to Glasgow 2024, the 82nd Worldcon. Ian Nichols was the other nominee. There were 81 votes counted.

The fund is currently administered in Europe by Alison Scott and in Australasia by Simon Litten.

For more information, see the GUFF website.

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: