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Update: Fantasycon 2023

Update: Due to a family bereavement, I’m sorry to announce that I will no longer be attending Fantasycon 2023. However, the details in this blog on the Shoreline of Infinity pre-orders and the BFS Journal special issue still stand. Neil Williamson has agreed to take my reading slot on Saturday at 5pm, which’ll be well worth attending instead.

Join me at Fantasycon 2023 for some brand new fiction and hopefully more! For schedule details for Fantasycon, as well as updates on Shoreline of Infinity and the British Fantasy Society Journal special issue on Fantasy & Gaming, read on.

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*Updated* Letter To A Future Architect

I wasn’t intending to post about this quite so soon, but the table of contents for Shoreline of Infinity‘s Climate Change issue just came out, and… Holy shit! Is that my name next to Kim Stanley Robinson‘s?

Let’s back up a bit.

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Roundtable: On the Boundaries Between Creative and Critical Writing

News for those both inside and outside Scotland: I’ll be appearing on a live broadcast as part of the University of Strathclyde’s HaSS Seminar series this Wednesday (8th March) at 4pm.

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Joe Kennedy, 1936-2022

Patrick James Joe Kennedy will be a new name to most. Perhaps those from Co. Mayo, Manchester (UK), Michigan or elsewhere in the US and the Middle East might know of J. Kennedy & Co Ltd., the firm that Joe started after he emigrated from Eire aged just 16. Ever supportive of his fellow Irish immigrants, his philanthropy blossomed with his business into the Kennedy Charitable Foundation, work that would be recognized by Pope John Paul II (Order of the Knights of St. Gregory), the Manchester Mayo Association, and the Virginia Gallagher Mayo Person of the Year Award. A remarkable feat for this gregarious but unassuming man of faith, both in God and his fellow man.

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Once and Future Fantasies

Update: My apologies to those looking forward to hearing this paper. Unfortunately I had to cancel due to illness.

As I write, the big yellow thing has returned to the skies above Glasgow, and people are turning into lobsters. But before we welcome our new crustacean overlords, I’ll be appearing at the Once and Future Fantasies conference at the University of Glasgow.