Tag Archives: Fantasy
CFPs: SF inequality, Twin Peaks, Georgette Heyer, Through the Looking-Glass, Oceans, The Exorcist, fairy tales, reviewers
Calls for papers for conferences and journals: 1. The Future of/as Inequality, Science Fiction Research Association (Virtual) Annual Conference 2021, 18-21 June 2021. Deadline: 1 May 2021. The Science Fiction Research Association invites proposals for its 2021 annual conference, to … Continue reading
CFP extension: ‘Ill met by moonlight’ Gothic Fairies Conference
We are pleased to announce an extension to the CFP for our ‘”Ill met by moonlight”: Gothic encounters with enchantment and the Faerie realm in literature and culture’ Conference. You can now submit proposals up till to 31 January 2021. … Continue reading
Posted in CFP (Conferences), OGOM: Ill met by moonlight
Tagged Faerie, fairies, Fantasy, Folklore, global Gothic, Gothic, Gothic fairies, YA Fiction
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CFPs & Events: Gothic and contagion, fantasy and theology, Vampfest, disease, Ellen Kushner
A mixture of CFPs, calls for articles, and events concerning the Gothic and the fantastic. 1. Gothic in a Time of Contagion, Populism and Racial Injustice, Online March 2021 (date to be confirmed), Simon Fraser University (SFU), Vancouver, Canada. Deadline: … Continue reading
Posted in Call for Articles, CFP (Conferences), Events
Tagged contagion, disease, Ellen Kushner, fantastic, Fantasy, Gothic, race, Terri Windling, theology, Vampires
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CFPs: Hans Andersen, fairy tales, The Vampire Diaries
Despite everything, research goes on and there are some calls for submissions here that have come to our attention. 1. The Swan’s Egg: A Student Journal of Hans Christian Andersen Studies. Deadline: 15 January 2021 The editors of The Swan’s Egg invite … Continue reading
Posted in Call for Articles
Tagged Fairy tales, Fantasy, Gothic, Hans Christian Andersen, SF, speculative fiction, The Vampire Diaries, TV, Vampires
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Betsy Cornwell: Steampunk Faerie at ‘Ill met by moonlight’ Conference
We are delighted to announce an addition to the guest speakers at our ‘Ill met by moonlight’ Gothic Faery conference. Betsy Cornwell, the esteemed author of YA fantasy, will be talking about her creative adaptation of fairy lore in her … Continue reading
Fairy News: Jeanette Ng, Holly Black, Carnival Row, Queen Mab, and Irish sidhe
the fae are the mythical creatures of the hour. Sometimes they’re portrayed as monstrous, sometimes as tricksters, sometimes as sensuous love interests So says Samantha Shannon, who is herself a superb fantasy novelist. So the next OGOM event, our conference … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts, OGOM: Ill met by moonlight, Reviews
Tagged Brontës, Carnival Row, fairies, Fantasy, Gothic fairies, neo-Victorianism, Percy Shelley, Queen Mab, Romanticism, sidhe, steampunk, TV
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CFP ‘Ill met by moonlight’: Gothic Encounters with Enchantment and the Fairy Realm in Literature and Culture, 8-10 April, 2021
University of Hertfordshire, 8‒10 April 2021 The Open Graves, Open Minds (OGOM) Project was launched in 2010 with the Vampires and the Undead in Modern Culture conference.We have subsequently hosted symposia on Bram Stoker and John William Polidori, unearthing depictions … Continue reading
CFPs: Folk horror, folklore and fantasy, enchanted environments, literature and science
* Hurry! Some of these deadlines are very soon! 1. Contemporary Folk Horror in Film and Media, Leeds Beckett University, 30-31 July 2020. Deadline: 30 December 2019. The 1960’s and 70s folk horror canon brought the ‘Unholy Trinity’ of Witchfinder General (1968), The Blood on … Continue reading
CFPs: Magical cities, coastal folklore, folk horror, folklore and the fantastic, Walpole
Some more CFPs to tempt you: 1. From the brilliant people at Supernatural Cities (who were such good partners at our Urban Weird conference in April this year), the Magical Cities conference, 15 June 2019, University of Portsmouth. Deadline: 31 … Continue reading
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Tagged cities, ecology, Eighteenth century, fairy tale, Fantasy, Folk Horror, Folklore, Gothic novel, Horace Walpole, magic, place, queer, sea, urban
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