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Editing New Non-Fiction

Updated: Call for Submissions: Fantasy and Gaming

UPDATE: Call extended! This call has now been extended to 29th October for writers from the following communities: 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. We will also be able to offer extensions to this deadline. For more details, click here.

Calling all Fans, Critics and Academics of Fantasy and Games of all kinds: Charly Harbord and I (and the British Fantasy Society Journal) want your work!

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Joe Kennedy, 1936-2022

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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

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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.

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New Column Shoreline of Infinity

Shoreline of Infinity 31

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After weeks of events, here’s something for those of you outside the UK as well as those inside it. Shoreline of Infinity 31 features my brand new Noise and Sparks column, ‘Case 3 in the Multiverse of Madness, Or Everyone Everywhere All At Once’.

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Conventions CYMERA Festival Events Festivals Readings Satellite

Satellite 7 and Cymera Festival

Thanks to everyone who made it to the Scottish Writing Centre last week, where the first ever reading from my novel-in-progress got an amazing response from the crowd! Wish you’d been there? Fear not. Over the next two weekends you catch me reading in-person, plus chatting online with Premee Mohamed and Ren Hutchings! Check out the details below…

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