Dreaming the Universe: The Intersection of Science, Fiction, & Southern California, a new science fiction exhibit, opened March 3, 2018 at the Pasadena Museum of History in Pasadena CA. The exhibit focuses on the history of Southern Californian science fiction from the 1930s to the 1980s. It is curated by Nick Smith, a former president of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society (LASFS) and “brings together an unusual range of ...Read More

Houghton Library at Harvard University is displaying the “Landmarks: Maps as Literary Illustration” exhibition of more than 60 literary maps including those based on works from Richard Adams, Frank Herbert, N.K. Jemisin, Ursula K. Le Guin, J.R.R. Tolkien, and more. The exhibit runs through April 14, 2018 and is free and open to the public.

For more information, see the Harvard website.

Storycom is funding The Shimmer Program’s Two-way Exchange Fund, intended “to encourage cultural exchange between Chinese science fiction fans and science fiction fans all over the world.” Similar to their ongoing Program for Chinese fans, the Two-way Exchange Fund

will provide 15,000 RMB per person (this will approximately cover economic class plane tickets and hotels; the fund recipient will be responsible for all costs exceeding this budget). For the first ...Read More

PEN America announced Jennifer Egan as their new president March 1, 2018. Egan takes over the role from Andrew Solomon and will work in partnership with Suzanne Nossel, who was named chief executive officer after serving as PEN America’s executive director since 2013. Nossel says:

A writer both renowned and beloved, Jennifer Egan ’s consummate skill, insight and humanity make her a perfect leader for PEN America at a time ...Read More

Dell Magazines reported that some copies of the March-April issue of Analog and Asimov’s magazines were bound with an incorrect signature due to an error at the printer. According to editor Sheila Williams, subscribers’ issues have already been replaced but any customers or retailers who have a misbound copy can contact customer service at 800-220-7443 for a replacement issue.

Some holdings of the Jack Williamson SF Library at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales NM were damaged in a flood. Special Collections Librarian Gene Bundy writes in with details:

The Jack Williamson Science Fiction Library was established on the campus of Eastern New Mexico University nearly 40 years ago. A number of you have visited the library during its existence. Our area of the main building underwent a remodel ...Read More

SF writer David Brin and the University of San Diego’s Arthur C. Clarke Center of Human Imagination have launched a new website called TASAT – “There’s A Story About That”. Brin says,

After years speaking at “alphabet agen­cies” in DC about various threat scenarios, I kept wishing there were a way to cite SF stories at them, no matter what scenario they were worried about. Finally, some of us… built ...Read More

An attempt to unionize employees at Skyhorse Publish­ing failed, with 18 workers voting to join the United Auto Workers Local 2110, and 28 vot­ing against. Twenty-three more votes were submitted but deemed ineligible. The drive to unionize has been ongoing for months, with co­pyeditor Terry Buck leading the effort in hopes that joining the union would improve employee compensation and offer better job security. Sky­horse president Tony Lyons said, “Skyhorse ...Read More

James Patter­son gave away $350,000 to more than 300 inde­pendent bookstore employees as holiday bonus­es in December 2017, in amounts ranging from $750 to $1,250. While he takes nominations and otherwise runs the program with the assistance of the American Booksellers Association, Pat­terson funds the bonuses personally.

For the list of recipients, see the American Booksellers Association site.

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Amal El-Mohtar has replaced N.K. Jemisin as the Otherworldly science fiction and fantasy columnist for the New York Times Book Review. Jemisin started Otherworldly in January 2016, and is leaving “to devote more time to her numerous outside projects, including her own books and a guest editorship for the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy series.” El-Mohtar’s first column will appear in late February 2018.

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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) has sponsored a new author reading series, Galactic Philadelphia, held every other month at the Irish Pub in Philadelphia PA. The inaugural event in October 2017 featured Lara Elena Donnelly and Gardner Dozois. The reading held December 2017 featured Tom Doyle and Fran Wilde.

Upcoming authors include Malka Older and David Walton on February 13, 2018 and Samuel R. Delany with ...Read More

Margaret Atwood, Junot Díaz, and George R.R. Martin are among a list of notables who will “lend their voices and passion” and “share their personal stories and connections to their favorite titles” as featured authors on PBS’s The Great American Read.  The official announcement says:

The Great American Read, a new eight-part television competition and nationwide campaign created in partnership with the production company Nutopia, explores the power of books ...Read More

George R.R. Martin has announced that he will fund a new scholarship for the Taos Toolbox writing workshop, held every summer in Angel Fire NM. The “Terran Award” is intended “to bring an aspiring SF writer from a non-English-speaking country” to the workshop and will cover all tuition and fees (travel and meals not included). “Applicants will need to speak and write in English, but must be from from a ...Read More

The John Hay Library at Brown University has announced the annual S.T. Joshi Endowed Research Fellowship “for research relating to H.P. Lovecraft, his associates, and literary heirs.” The fellowship, established by the Aeroflex Foundation and Hippocampus Press, provides a $1,500 monthly stipend for up to two months of research at the John Hay Library.

For more information, see the Brown University Library website.

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The Odyssey Writing Workshop has announced several scholarships available for students attending in 2018.

The Miskatonic Scholarship, funded by George R.R. Martin, covers full tuition, textbook, and housing costs. It will be awarded to a promising new writer of Lovecraftian cosmic horror. The winner will be selected by a panel of three judges.

The Parasite Publications Character Awards, funded by Sara King, will provide three scholarships in the amounts of ...Read More

World Book Day has announced its YA selections for 2018. Titles of genre interest include Fly by Night (Macmillan) by Frances Hardinge and Summoner: The Novice (Square Fish) by Taran Matharu.

The World Book Day organization sends £1 book tokens to schools and libraries in the UK and Ireland, which can be exchanged for free or discounted books from February 26 – March 25, 2018. The 21st annual World Book ...Read More

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) announced that F.J. Bergmann has been elected Vice-President and Renee Ya has been elected Secretary following a vote by members of the organization. For more information, see the official SFPA blog.

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The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin has made available a portion of its Gabriel García Márquez collection in a free, online archive. The archive contains approximately 27,500 items including “manuscript drafts of published and unpublished works, research material, photographs, scrapbooks, correspondence, clippings, notebooks, screenplays, printed material, ephemera, and an audio recording of García Márquez’s acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.”

The ...Read More

BFS Horizons, the fiction and poetry publication of the British Fantasy Society, has announced two new editors starting with issue #7. Tim Major and Shona Kinsella will serve as co-editors. Ian Hunter will continue in his role as poetry editor.

For more information, see the BFS website.

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