Quick reminder that, not only is Christmas around the corner, the deadline for this year's Peter Nicholls Essay Prize is only six weeks away - 11 January. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/...
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Quick reminder that, not only is Christmas around the corner, the deadline for this year's Peter Nicholls Essay Prize is only six weeks away - 11 January. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/...
02.12.2025 00:54 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Farah Mendlesohn is convening a symposium on Frances Hardinge next July at King's College London. All welcome! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-one-day-...
29.11.2025 22:50 β π 11 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0The SF Collections at Liverpool host the Olaf Stapledon Archive. We're delighted that SFF trustee Una McCormack was able to discuss Stapledon's landmark debut novel with Matthew De Abaitua and Andy Miller. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/253...
26.11.2025 10:07 β π 26 π 7 π¬ 0 π 3Proud to be sponsoring this event next summer.
20.11.2025 20:56 β π 17 π 9 π¬ 1 π 1A request on behalf of Gold SF. For the first time, the Nebula Award is honouring poetry. They would like to put forward Jessy Randall's latest collection, The Path of Most Resistance. But it can only be nominated by a member of the SFWA. Would someone like to do so? Email Susan.Kelly@gold.ac.uk
19.11.2025 20:54 β π 7 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0A reminder that we have two current calls for papers - the Peter Nicholls Essay Prize (deadline: 11 January 2026) and a special issue on pulp sf (deadline: 5 April 2026). Details in the newsfeed. www.sf-foundation.org/fresh-about
10.11.2025 12:09 β π 11 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0Cfp with a sf element. www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/10/call...
10.11.2025 12:02 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0The deadline for the 2026 SFRA conference has been extended to 20 November. sfra.org/conferences/...
04.11.2025 13:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Tickets now available for the 2025 London sf theatre festival. www.cyborphic.com/talos-2025
04.11.2025 13:49 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Our journal editor, Paul March-Russell, and editorial consultant, Anna McFarlane, have been busily podcasting. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
04.11.2025 13:45 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0F151 has landed!
03.11.2025 11:00 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Further apologies for the continued delay which has been due to ill-health. We hope to have copies out in the post next week.
24.10.2025 08:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Apologies to members for the delay in sending out the latest issue of Foundation. (Actually, we were a little ahead of schedule.) We hope to have them in the post next week.
10.10.2025 08:44 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Microfiction writing competition for anyone 16+. london.sciencegallery.com/sgl-events/s...
07.10.2025 13:10 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0F151 is out! Here's the ToC with pieces from, amongst others, Joy Sanchez-Taylor, Nisi Shawl and Sheree Renee Thomas. And, as an added bonus, membership rates for 2026 have been frozen! So, it's the perfect time to join and support our activities. www.sf-foundation.org/sf-foundatio...
26.09.2025 08:34 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1Online exhibition, marking 50 years of the Voyager space probe, co-created by Jonathan Thornton, our Book Reviews Editor. digitalheritagelab.liverpool.ac.uk/voyager
13.09.2025 23:55 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Cheers Dave but we don't seem to be in the LibGen dataset.
13.09.2025 23:54 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Farah Mendlesohn, Melanie Fishbane, Jed Hartman and Emily Tesh in conversation about Joanna Russ. fb.me/e/js9qlm5yL
01.09.2025 21:30 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 02-year research post in a sf-adjacent project. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
29.08.2025 23:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0F151 is off the printers! A special issue on 'women in the black fantastic' with features by Nisi Shawl and Sheree Renee Thomas. If you want to become a member of the SFF, you can join via the website.
www.sf-foundation.org/new-membersh...
You can also find our other cfps - including the 2026 Peter Nicholls Essay Prize - in our newsfeed. www.sf-foundation.org/fresh-about
22.08.2025 08:59 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Latest cfp - special (autumn 2026) issue of Foundation on pulp sf. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/08/...
22.08.2025 08:52 β π 5 π 6 π¬ 2 π 0An in-person event to launch an online exhibition, Brian Aldiss and the Natural World, curated by the SFF Collections at Liverpool. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/brian-aldi...
11.08.2025 15:09 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Eileen Gunn has started this GoFundMe on behalf of Nisi Shawl, GOH at this year's Worldcon, but short of funds for their next project. gofund.me/ed5ace6d
07.08.2025 21:31 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Job opportunity teaching science fiction in Liverpool. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOC313/l...
30.07.2025 08:05 β π 13 π 18 π¬ 0 π 2Fascinating festival in Senegal. www.graphichistorycompany.com/futurewaves?...
29.07.2025 21:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Editorial consultant and director of the Olaf Stapledon Centre, Will Slocombe, has announced a new call for chapters on sf and social problems. See our newsfeed for more details. www.sf-foundation.org/fresh-about
08.07.2025 20:12 β π 2 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Editorial consultant Anna McFarlane on techno-futures and the medical humanities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtAJ...
03.07.2025 23:23 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Tonnvane Wiswell of the London Lovecraft Festival is editing a new magazine of weird short fiction. If interested in submitting a story, you can contact Tonnvane at tonnvanne@gmail.com
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