Time magazine has released a list of the “100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time“, curated by Time editors and a panel of authors consisting of Tomi Adeyemi, Cassandra Clare, Diana Gabaldon, Neil Gaiman, N.K. Jemisin, Marlon James, George R.R. Martin, and Sabaa Tahir.

The list is presented in chronological order, starting with 9th-century The Arabian Nights and ending with Woven in Moonlight by Isabel Ibañez (Page Street), released January ...Read More

The administrators of the Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund (TAFF) have decided that “it’s not feasible or sensible to run a 2021 race” due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The general expectation of expert epidemiologists is that the pandemic will continue to rage well into 2021. For example, the British government has announced that they expect severe restrictions, including the bans on public events, to be in place for another half year. We ...Read More

James Patterson is continuing the Patterson Partnership with Scholastic Book Clubs for a sixth year, this time pledging $2.5 million to libraries in classrooms. He will give 5,000 teachers grants of $500 each (with Scholastic Book Clubs offering matching funds in the form of bonus points) to buy books for the classroom. The 5,000 winners were chosen from over 100,000 entries.

For more information, including the complete list of recipients, ...Read More

C.L. Clark has been named the new blog editor for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), taking over from Todd Vandermark. The role “is responsible for soliciting and publishing online content to support SFWA’s goals of informing, supporting, promoting, defending, and advocating for writers of SF/F.” Clark is currently a co-editor of PodCastle.

SFWA president Mary Robinette Kowal said,

Todd Vandermark has done years of wonderful work ...Read More

The Artist Relief initiative, created in April 2020 to support artists “facing dire financial emergencies due to COVID-19,” has announced that it will extend its grant distribution through December 2020. The initiative distributes unrestricted $5,000 grants and has so far given over $13.5 million to more than 2,700 individual artists. It has raised nearly $20 million since its inception, including $1 million from individual donations. Grants are distributed each Friday, ...Read More

Greg Hullender of Rocket Stack Rank announced that he will be taking an indefinite break from reviewing short stories.

This month marks five years since we started the site, and so it seemed like a good time to pause. Eric will continue to operate the site, producing monthly lists of stories for 11 magazines (with blurbs from the publisher or a few sentences from the story) and aggregating recommendations from ...Read More

The Otherwise Award (formerly the Tiptree Award) is currently accepting applications for Otherwise Fellowships, providing $500 grants “for emerging creators who are changing the way we think about gender through speculative narrative…. Otherwise Fellows can be writers, artists, scholars, media makers, remix artists, performers, musicians, or something else entirely.”

The Fellowships are “designed to provide support and recognition for the new voices who are making visible the forces that are ...Read More

The University of Glasgow is launching its Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic (CFF) with an online lecture by Ellen Kushner and a panel featuring Brian Attebery, Robert Maslen, and Terri Windling. The event will be held as a Zoom webinar on September 16, 2020 and is free and open to the public.

For more information, and to book tickets, see the CFF website.

While you are here, please take ...Read More

The Ray Bradbury Centennial Read-a-Thon was held on August 22, 2020 on the hundredth anniversary of Ray Bradbury’s birth, featuring a complete reading of Fahrenheit 451, plus introductions and speeches. Participants include members of the Waukegan Park District, the Library of Congress, the Los Angeles Public Library, and other libraries across the country, as well as authors Steven Barnes, P. Djèlí Clark, Tananarive Due, Neil Gaiman, Marlon James, Kij ...Read More

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the results of the election for its open officers positions. John Palisano was re-elected President after running unopposed. Linda Addison, James Chambers, and Ellen Datlow were re-elected to the Board of Trustees. Becky Spratford was re-elected Secretary after running unopposed.

The Association of Science Fiction & Fantasy Artists (ASFA) is sponsoring memberships in its organization for Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) artists. As of August 12, 2020 they have 15 memberships available and are accepting donations to fund more.

For more information, including how to apply and donate, see the ASFA website.

While you are here, please take a moment to support Locus with a one-time ...Read More

Samuel R. Delany will deliver the 2020 Windham-Campbell lecture. The annual “Why I Write” lecture series is normally presented during the Windham-Campbell Prizes Festival, which is canceled this year, and will instead be available on their website, September 16, 2020 at 5 p.m. EDT.

The Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prize was established “to call attention to literary achievement and provide writers with the opportunity to focus on their work ...Read More