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CFPs: Fantasy, Irish literature, religion, the occult, Islam, horror, Shelley, the Inklings
CFPs for some exciting conferences ahead. 1. Once and Future Fantasies conference, Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic (CFF) at the University of Glasgow, 13 –17 July 2022. Deadline: 22 October 2021 We therefore ask how fantasy and the fantastic engage with … Continue reading
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Tagged C. S. Lewis, Fantasy, horror, Irish literature, Islam, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Percy Shelley, religion, SF, the fantastic, The Inklings, theology, Tolkein
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CFPs: Popular genre fiction, historical fiction, Tolkien & YA fantasy, LGBTQIA+ Graphics
Some CFPs for conferences: 1. Concepts in Popular Genre Fiction, Deakin University (on line), 6-8 December 2021. Deadline: 31 August 2021 Popular genre fiction is an expansive field, covering a myriad of different kinds of texts and narratives. However, critical … Continue reading
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Tagged Fantasy, genre fiction, graphic novel, historical fiction, LGBTQIA+, popular fiction, Romance, SF, Tolkien, YA Fiction
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Fairy Resources: bibliographies and links to folklore, myth, and romance writing sources
We’ve set up a new page of Resources following the ‘Ill met by moonlight’ conference. It will be a useful page for material on the conference theme of Gothic fairies and will be continually updated. It holds a partial bibliography … Continue reading
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
Events: Mary Shelley, Octavia Butler, Gothic ocean, Byron, Polidori
Despite the pandemic isolation, scholars in Gothic and allied fields are finding creative ways to keep literary and cultural dialogue flourishing with on-line events. here are a few we’ve noticed: 1. BARS Digital Event: ‘The Late Mary Shelley’, 18 February … Continue reading
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Tagged Byron, Gothic, Gothic ocean, John Polidori, Mary Shelley, Octavia E. Butler, SF, Vampires, women writers
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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
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Tagged Fairy tales, Fantasy, Gothic, Hans Christian Andersen, SF, speculative fiction, The Vampire Diaries, TV, Vampires
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Ursula Le Guin: Tributes and Analysis
Some more valuable links to material on the wonderful Ursula K. Le Guin who, sadly, died on Monday (22 January 2017). Tributes from her fellow writers in SF and fantasy: ‘The Science Fiction and Fantasy Community Remembers Ursula K. Le … Continue reading
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Tagged Fantasy, Fredric Jameson, Genre, Marxism, SF, speculative fiction, Ursula Le Guin, utopia, utopianism
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RIP Ursula K. Le Guin
Photo by Marian Wood Kolisch/University of Oregon It’s very sad to hear of the death of Ursula K. Le Guin, aged 88. For me, no other writer of SF or fantasy reaches the heights that she did. She was a … Continue reading
YA Fiction Reading Lists: Otherness and Oddity
Some more tempting reading lists of YA fiction for you. First, from Penguin Teen, ‘10 YA Characters Who Will Mess with Your Mind‘: a list of novels with unreliable narrators or narrators who unsettle. I would add to this the … Continue reading
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Tagged dystopia, Fantasy, Genre, otherness, Paranormal romance, realism, SF, YA Fiction
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Reading Lists: Urban Fantasy, Imaginary Cities, New YA, Women in SF & Fantasy
I’ve gathered together here four reading lists of interesting writing in the literature of the fantastic. The first, which ties in nicely with OGOM’s forthcoming conference The Urban Weird, is a guide by Chelsea Mueller to the genre of urban … Continue reading
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Tagged cities, Fantasy, SF, urban fantasy, urban weird, women writers, YA Fiction
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