Registration for VICFA 5: Speculative Visions of Care and Hope with Guests of Honor Zoha Kazemi (Iran) and Ahmed Naji (Egypt), co-organized by the IAFA and CoFutures, is now live! Please register here: iaftfita.wildapricot.org/event-6742648 We hope to see you there!

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Today is your last day to submit proposals for VICFA 5: Speculative Visions of Care and Hope, with Guests of Honor Zoha Kazemi (Iran) and Ahmed Naji (Egypt)! We can't wait to see your proposals! You can find all relevant details, including a link to the submission portal, at the VICFA webpage.

Call for Submissions: The Routledge Companion to Octavia E. Butler deadline for submissions: September 1, 2026 See link for details. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/07/...

Call for Papers: The Virtual Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts 5 (VICFA5) Speculative Visions of Care and Hope Guests of Honor: Zoha Kazemi (Iran) and Ahmed Naji (Egypt) 17-19 September 2026 Organized by IAFA and CoFutures Full CfP can be found at iaftfita.wildapricot.org/page-1820583

CfP: The State of SF and of Things to Come: Reading SF through the Clarke Award, 12-13 Dec. 2026 Keynote Speaker: Andrew M. Butler A two-day online conference by the U. of Liverpool, with the Science Fiction Foundation and the Arthur C. Clarke Award submissions deadline: July 27, 2026 See link ⬇️

We can't wait to see who walk away with a shiny new award this weekend at the Locus Awards. Everyone who attends the Locus Awards Weekend this weekend, 29-31 May, is in for a real treat; their line-up of guests is stunning, so we hope you can make it there!

Locus Magazine@locusmag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Come to the Locus Awards at the end of May! We have some amazing guests of honor and so many amazing authors and fans in attendance! We'll have amazing panels, art, books, dinner, and a space to get to know your community. Buy tickets via the link in our bio.

Congrats to all on the shortlist!

Locus Magazine@locusmag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

2026 British Fantasy Awards Shortlists locusmag.com/2026/05...

We hope everyone got their tickets for the SFWA Nebulas Conference! It's bound to be an exciting time for all who can make it. Nebula Award Banquet ticket sales ended last night, but you still have the rest of today to register for the conference!

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association@sfwa.bsky.social · 2mo ago

SFWA is Chicago-bound shortly! 🥳 We can't wait to celebrate our latest Nebula Awards amid a weekend of Worldbuilding with Grand Master @nkjemisin.bsky.social & a wealth of fellow creators. If you haven't nabbed tickets yet, today by 11:59 PM PDT is your LAST CHANCE! store.sfwa.org/nebula-confe...

The SLF is pleased to announce that Shahriar Shaams is the winner of the 2026 A.C. Bose Grant! In 2019, the Speculative Literature Foundation and DesiLit co-sponsored the A.C. Bose Grant in memory of Ashim Chandra Bose. Learn more about Shaams here: speculativeliterature.org/2026/05/18/a...

For those who were not lucky enough to grab one of the donated early copies from your ICFA luncheon table, you might like to know you can now get a copy for your own! It was such a treat to have Ann Leckie as an ICFA Guest of Honor this year at ICFA 47! #ICFA #ICFA47 #IAFA #FantasticArts

Yesterrday at the opening of the @iafa.bsky.social conference, we met @mcfarland.bsky.social author Graeme Wend-Walker, pictured below with his book Russell Hoban: Faithful to the Strange. #IAFA #scifi

Our April 2026 issue features stories by Ryan Cole, Tania Fordwalker, Rajeev Prasad, K. J. Khan, Nadia W. Aldsen, Malena Salazar Maciá, and Abby Nicole Yee. clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_235 Please considering subscribing at: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

🎉✨NEW ISSUE OUT!! 🎉✨ Fafnir's latest issue features a prefatory by Israel A. C. Noletto on SF and Eutopian Imagination, two essays on Norwegian SF & climate modeling as a worldbuilding tool, a lectio praecursoria and seven book reviews! 🐉 Read the full issue for free here: fafnir.journal.fi

And so we’re off! BSFA Awards are go 🚀 Watch live: Https://www.youtube.com/@bsfachair2284/streams

May 30 – June 3, 2026 Oak Park IL (near Chicago) Come write & critique fiction with us!

Speculative Literature Foundation@speclit.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The SLF is excited to announce that we will be extending the deadline of our Writing SFF Workshop until April 22nd! This is your LAST CHANCE to join @maryannemohanraj.bsky.social and @benjaminrosenbaum.com for a week of writing, eating, chatting, and making new friends.

Introducing In Your Spare Time: A Podcast of the Blog of Ursula K. Le Guin! inyoursparetime.libsyn.com

It's always such a delight to get to see the Must Read Book Award and its runners-up and honorable mentions awarded live at the IAFA Awards Banquet. Our many thanks go out to the authors and the Must Read Books Award team! You can see the full list at Locus Magazine. locusmag.com/2026/03/2026...

#TheSubtleArtofFoldingSpace by John Chu is featured in today's #newbooks haul on youtube! full video: https://twp.ai/NTc1cH buy the books: https://twp.ai/E6HXE9 all links in bio! #booksky Tor Books

Maberry & Norton Receive HWA Lifetime Achievement Awards locusmag.com/2026/04...

#FundraiserPerk Try out the next 3 digital issues of Locus, starting in April. Great for new writers! Plus digital cover art from designer Francesca Myman. Donate at locusmag.com/igg26/ [link in bio]

The BFS Short Story Competition is now open! We want your words - full details and submission form here: britishfantasysociety.org/get-in-touch...

BFS Chair Shona Kinsella and Gothic literature expert Dr Alex Carabine chat about the use of language in the horror tradition. Find out more about our chair and interviewee here: tinyurl.com/interlang. #BritishFantasySociety #FantasyBooks #HorrorBooks #SFFBooks #BookSky

Giveaway time! In collaboration with Troubador Publishing we are excited to offer two fantastic novels. To take part in the giveaway, make sure you: 💌 Like this post 💌 Share this post 💌 Tag a friend so they can get involved! The winner will be announced on Monday 13th April. Good luck!

Artwork for ICFA 47: Metacognition by Aneka Ingold Aneka can be found at www.anekaingold.com and on Instagram as @anekaingold

Did you know that the ICFA Book Room is the only part of the conference available to everyone, even those not registered for the conference? It's true! Anyone can come buy a book and help support the organization; no membership or registration required. #ICFA47 #FantasticArts #IAFA

ICFA 47 is here! The IAFA Registration and Membership Coordinator and her team of fantastic volunteers were hard at work on Tuesday, getting everything ready for you to pick up your badges and meal tickets! #ICFA47 #FantasticArts #IAFA

ICFA 47 is almost here! All registered IAFA members should have gotten an email today with some important information, including the hotel phone number for the airport shuttle, a link to the digital schedule app, and more! #ICFA47 #FantasticArts #IAFA

CfP for Undergrads: Call for Proposals: Mysteries and Mayhem Young Scholars Literary Symposium Saturday, February 21, 2026: 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. EST (followed by film event 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. EST) Hosted by Shenandoah University’s Department of English in Winchester, VA.