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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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Speculative Spaces and Free Shoreline of Infinity 4

If you’d like a free copy of Shoreline of Infinity, or a science fiction and fantasy non-fiction reading list from me, then read on.

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Fantasycon 2019 Schedule and new Shoreline of Infinity column

Fantasycon 2019 is nearly upon us, and I’m looking forward to seeing everyone for a weekend along the river from me in Dalmuir. There’s lots of splendid things on the programme, as per usual, and you can catch me at one panel and one other event across the weekend. And regarding that, I have news…

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Worldcon 2019 Schedule and British Fantasy Awards

Dublin Worldcon kicks off in a little over two weeks – and I can’t wait to see you there! I’ll be appearing on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday on the main and academic tracks (details below). I’m looking forward to chatting about musicals, gods and superheroes, and building better online environments with you – or simply having a nice natter over a seasonally-appropriate beverage.

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The Anniversary – Support Domestic Abuse Charities

Robert MacFarlane recently said, “perhaps we shouldn’t think of books as saving the world, but rather as catalyzing uncountable small unknown acts of good.” I don’t see why short stories shouldn’t do the same. So, if it’s okay, I’d like to ask a small favour.

CW: Domestic Abuse.