This coming weekend is Easter, so you know what that means (if you’re aware of the UK SF convention circuit) – Eastercon! Conversation 2023 features guests of honour Zen Cho, Niall Harrison, Kari Sperring and Adrian Tchaikovsky, plus virtual guests Jenell Jaquays and Ursula Vernon. And for one day two days only, me!
This week sees a new print edition of Shoreline of Infinity – which means another Noise and Sparks column from yours truly: ‘Ruth EJ Booth is Unwell’.
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.
Scotland’s only dedicated SF magazine Shoreline of Infinity have just released issue #33, one I’m proud to share with T.L. Huchu, Benjamin C. Kinney, Brent Baldwin, Callum McSorley, David Lawrie, Juliette Lee, Liana Kapelke-Dale, Lucy Zhang, M Luke McDonell, M H Ayinde, Michael Teasdale,Thomas Piekarski, as well as the winner of this year’s flash fiction competition.
As you may know, Charly Harbord and I are currently co-editing a special issue of the British Fantasy Society’s BFS Journal. We have decided to extend the deadline for submissions to 29th October for writers from the following: POC, LGBTQIA+- communities, disabled and chronic illness communities, neurodiverse writers, writers with specific learning difficulties, displaced people and those from non-anglophone countries (please note submissions must be in English), and otherwise disadvantaged writers. For more details, read on…