The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino CA has created a new Octavia E. Butler Fellowship.

The Huntington is the repository of the literary archive of Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006), the first science fiction writer to receive a prestigious MacArthur “genius” award and the first African-American woman to win widespread recognition writing in that genre. Applicants may be working from a variety of disciplinary perspectives on ...Read More

SF, fantasy, and alter­nate reality game writer Sean Stewart has written an interactive online farce called Roundabout: “A love triangle gets even more complicated when three digital beings decide they want to go back into bodies – and the audience chooses who goes where.” You can watch (and participate!) at <twitch.tv/NIDA-Roundabout> on August 6, 7, and 8 at 6 p.m. PST. Stewart created the play in collaboration with the ...Read More

A digital copy of Aurealis #132, the All-New Zealand issue, will be sent free to anyone who emails <editor@aurealis.com.au> with the subject line “Aurealis #132 All-New Zealand” during CoNZealand, July 29 – August 2, 2020.

While you are here, please take a moment to support Locus with a one-time or recurring donation. We rely on reader donations to keep the magazine and site going, and would like to keep ...Read More

CoNZealand Fringe, “a project of many genre fiction fan communities” which is “not endorsed by CoNZealand,” has created “a complementary programming series to the annual science fiction convention Worldcon,” accessible on their website and free to watch on YouTube.

Programming events will livestream on YouTube from July 28 – August 2nd (PDT) at “European-friendly times.” Panelists include Jeannette Ng, Gareth L. Powell, DongWong Song, Alasdair Stuart, Bogi Takács, and many ...Read More

Arlan Andrews, Sr., director and founder of science fiction think tank SIGMA, has announced the addition of six new members to their group: Kevin Ikenberry, Mike Massa, Theodore “T.C.” McCarthy, Marc Miller, Hans G. Schantz, and Martin L. Shoemaker. SIGMA, founded in 1992, is “an ad hoc organization of science fiction authors, game writers, and other creatives who offer futurism consulting services pro bono to the US Government and appropriate ...Read More

CoNZealand has announced that online voting for “the 2020 Hugo Awards, the 2020 Lodestar and Astounding Awards, and the 1945 Retrospective Hugo Awards” is now open.

Members can access their ballots logging in to https://members.conzealand.nz. For more information, including voting eligibility and a complete list of Hugo finalists, visit the CoNZealand website.

The voting deadline has been extended to July 22, 2020 at 23:59 PDT. For more information on the ...Read More

CoNZealand has announced on twitter that they plan to make online Hugo voting available by July 8, 2020 latest. To account for the delay, they are extending the voting deadline to July 22, 2020.

Mail and email ballots will also be accepted if they are received before the deadline, but voters are strongly encouraged to wait for the online voting system to open at this point. A fillable pdf has ...Read More

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) has partnered with Lighthouse Insurance Group (LIG) Solutions to provide assistance with a choice of health insurance options for members based in the US. SFWA is part of a coalition of nine organizations known as the Book Industry Health Insurance Partnership (BIHIP); other members include the American Booksellers Association, Book Industry Study Group, Independent Book Publishers Association, Novelists Inc., and Western ...Read More

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) board unanimously signed a statement about the Black Lives Matter movement and the recent protests against police violence. The statement reads, in part,

It is not enough to have an anti-harassment policy and call that good. We must work for equity and diversity to make sure that underrepresented voices are heard, to increase inclusion in the genre of science fiction and ...Read More

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) voted to accept active membership applications from comic and graphic novel writers.

The decision was made by a membership-wide vote during the 2020 SFWA Officer Election. Specific dates and rules are yet to be announced. The voting results are available on the SFWA site.

SFWA also voted to change the membership class name from “active member” to “full member.”

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The Center for Science and the Imagi­nation at Arizona State University launched Us in Flux, “a series of stories and virtual events about community, collaboration, and collective imagination in times of transformative change.” They will publish an original flash fiction story each Thursday, and host a virtual event with the author in conversation with an expert in a related field on the following Monday at 4 p.m. Eastern. The first ...Read More

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) has announced the results of its election for open Board of Directors positions.

Vice President

The election committee consisted of Maurice Broaddus, Matthew Johnson (chair), Peng Shepherd, and Kate Baker (advisor). For more information, see the SFWA site.

While you are ...Read More

The United States Postal Service is sending international shipments by sea, effective April 20, 2020, due to COVID-19 flight cancelations. The first shipment is scheduled to arrive in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on May 7, 2020. This change will affect magazine deliveries to Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. As previously reported, several other international shipping delays are in effect that will impact deliveries. ...Read More