Tag: authors

Building a SciFi Future That Matters: Five Authors Share Their Worldbuilding Strategies

Peng Shepherd, Malka Older, Tade Thompson, Lauren C Teffeau and Mike Chen

South Asian Authors Nominated For Science-Fiction & Fantasy Awards

Nominees based on Locus’s 2017 Recommended Reading List

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Community Remembers Ursula K. Le Guin

CLICK TO READ AT TOR.COM.

Ursula K. Le Guin (October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018)

People of Color Pack the National Book Award Finalist List

See the full list at NPR.org.

Women of color are FOUR of the five National Book Award Finalists for Fiction.

Carmen Maria Machado is also a finalist for the Nebula Novelette award and her stories have been reprinted in Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, Best Horror of the Year, and Best Women’s Erotica. (And shout out to Machado from this Philly girl. She grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and is currently Artist in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania.)

It doesn’t stop there. Also check out Shane McRae, Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Layli Long Soldier, Erika L. Sánchez, and more!

Angie Thomas: The Debut Novelist Who Turned Racism and Police Violence Into a Bestseller

Click here to go to The Guardian.

100 African Writers of Science Fiction and Fantasy

LINK: Compiled by lawyer and legal academic Gautam Bhatia of New Delhi, India

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POC Horror Authors Recced By Writeworld #POCtober

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Maurice Broaddus, author of Devil’s Marionette
Tananarive Due, author of Joplin’s Ghost
Brandon Massey, author of Thunderland
Jermiah Jefferson, author of the Voice of Blood series
Wrath James White, author of The Resurrectionist
Darlene Black, author of Necromancy
L.A. Banks, author of the Vampire Huntress series
Qwantu Amaru, author of One Blood
Akash Bansal, author of Avenue of Death
Gakuto Coda, author of the Missing series
Dia Reeves, author of Bleeding Violet
Evie Rhodes, author of Expired
Tize W. Clark, author of The Maze
Otsuichi, author of Goth: A Novel of Horror
Koji Suzuki, author of the Ring series
Hideaki Sena, Ph.D, author of Parasite Eve
Andre Duza, author of Dead Bitch Army
Koushun Takami, author of Battle Royale
Michael Boatman, author of The Revenant Road

Survey: Black Writers of Speculative Fiction

LINK: Learn More Here

Survey Participation Requirements:

You must have submitted at least one piece of short speculative fiction to a paying market in the last 12 months.
You do not have to be published in order to participate in the survey.
Speculative fiction includes fantasy, science fiction, horror, paranormal and all of their included subgenres. “Short” fiction includes shorts, novelettes, and novellas (under 40,000 words).
You must identify as Black or of the African Diaspora (to include mixed/biracial)

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Learn about the African Speculative Fiction Society & NOMMO Awards

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FLYERS: The ASFS & The NOMMO Awards

Read press release and details on the blog of horror author Joan De La Haye

Follow @tordotcom’s series “100 African Writers of SFF”

Kicking off with Part One: Nairobi

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