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
Cover for issue 235 of Clarkesworld is by Ian McQue and features a craft floating above dockyards. Background is a hazy purple. Smaller ships float nearby. This issue includes interviews with John Chu and Suzanne Palmer, an article by Jason Collins, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
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.
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🎉✨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!
A drawing, by Ursula K. Le Guin, of a loafed-up black cat as seen from behind. The cat's tail curls around the podcast title IN YOUR SPARE TIME. Ursula K. Le Guin's name is at the top of the image, which has a teal background.
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...
mystery box with magazine stacks above
#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]
Graphic shows a stack of books and scrolls. Text reads: The annual BFS Short Story Competition is now open! Entries close 30 June, full details on the website.
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
The graphic describes a book giveaway competition. The first novel is The Diary of Derek Drummond by Katelyn Emilia Novak. The description reads: A unique fusion of supernatural mystery, psychological drama, and deeply emotional romance. An immortal soul. A forgotten curse. A love that rewrites fate. The second novel is Slipped Again by Julie Walker. The description reads: The compelling sequel to Slipped, following women who slip through time every full moon to visit their deceased fathers. They know what’s coming and they’re going to try to stop it.
The graphic offers more information about The Diary of Derek Drummond by Katelyn Emilia Novak. Once a proud Scottish nobleman, Derek Drummond has spent 124 years caught between day and night, hiding from the world — and from himself. A shadow among shadows, he has watched time unravel, love vanish, and hope fade into myth. Until Megan MacKenzie looks at him — and sees more than she should. With haunted eyes and a quiet, stubborn kindness, she stirs the man he used to be. But the past never stays silent. Some curses won’t break. And some ghosts refuse to let go. If you believe in second chances — even after death — open the diary.
The graphic describes Slipped Again by Julie Walker. Having gathered all 12 of the 16/87s – those who slip through time on each full moon – together, Jess still feels alone. It seems each of their lives are falling apart, and she still doesn’t know what to do with the information they found out from the timeslip. Jess also doesn’t know what role ‘The Chronos Club’ is going to play, other than their members all experience full moon disappearances too, with each group born a decade before the next. Dieter from the 15/44s seems to be the key, but Jess has no idea how the pieces of the jigsaw fit together. They know what’s coming and they’re going to try to stop it.
Giveaway time!
In collaboration with Troubador Publishing we are excited to offer two fantastic novels.
To take part in the giveaway, make sure you:
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The winner will be announced on Monday 13th April. Good luck!
A young femme stands center, her eyes closed, with a growing plant held in her cupped hands. Behind her is a network of interconnected dots, leading upward to two circles, one on either side of her head, each containing a silhouette of her body in a more relaxed posture. The silhouettes are turned halfway toward each other, while also still facing the young femme. All three figures seem to be reflexively contemplating each other.
Artwork for ICFA 47: Metacognition
by Aneka Ingold
Aneka can be found at www.anekaingold.com and on Instagram as @anekaingold
They now have a section for books by the year's Guests of Honor, so you can easily find works by them. For other works, our Book Room staff is delighted to help you out. You get great books, and the IAFA gets to help more underfunded ICFA participants more. It's a win-win!
ICFA Book Room
Book Room staff
GOH Books
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
Three Registration volunteers hard at work.
We couldn't be the org we are without our volunteers! And I mean that quite literally, since we're an all-volunteer org, but the registration volunteers are a vital and necessary component of our in-person conference, so many thanks to them!
IAFA Registration and Membership Coordinator Amanda Firestone
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
If you are unable to attend this year's in-person conference and haven't been getting emails from your caucuses representative(s), you can find their email address in this morning's all-membership email!
We're looking forward to seeing all of this year's ICFA participants and attendees!
A crop of this year's ICFA artwork.
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.
A post for "Poetry on Drugs: Language, Dreaming and the Coming Revolution." This image is black and white, with a large abstractly filled circle inside of a stylized rectangle adorned with leaf-life imagery. The title for the symposium is listed, as well as "Event Date: 20 February 2026."
Poetry on Drugs: Language, Dreaming and the Coming Revolution
Call for Proposals
drive.google.com/file/d/17LfTxAKUUrKS32ddK2VespoNNjGy8dqP
Submit your proposal here: iaftfita.wildapricot.org/Proposal
More information and submission details can be found at www.iafa.org
ICFA 47 (2026) CfP Extension (deadline Nov. 10th)
The deadline for proposals for ICFA 47 has been extended until Monday, November 10th. The conference will take place March 18-21 with Guests of Honor Ted Chiang and Ann Leckie and Guest Scholar Sherryl Vint.
#IAFA #ICFA #ICFA47 #FantasticArts
If you love science fiction, fantasy, and horror you MUST already subscribe to Locus Magazine... Right?
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📖 Unruly Intelligences
Projects that exemplify the role of the humanities in shaping contemporary understanding of artificial and other intelligences.
📖 Normalization and Its Discontents
Projects that explore the paradoxical concept of normalcy.
#MellonFoundation #HigherLearning #OpenCall
The Mellon Foundation has announced a call for concepts.
Mellon invites institutions of higher education in the United States and its territories to submit applications for research and/or curricular projects focused on either of the following two areas:
The cover of Journal of Fantastic in the Arts, volume 36.2, features the reflection in a mirror of a femme-appearing person putting on red lipstick.
All registered IAFA members should have gotten their latest issue of the JFA via email.
Just a quick reminder: You have 24 hours to submit your proposal for ICFA 47 before the submission portal closes!
See our website for the complete CfP and other needed details (iaftfita.wildapricot.org/ICFA).
Michael also writes fiction and plays, and performs long-form improvisational theater.
We appreciate the efforts and passion of all the applicants for this position, and we thank in advance Michael Furlong for his service to the IAFA in his new role.
Michael Furlong is an Associate Librarian at The University of Central Florida, and is the university’s librarian for Theater and Performing Arts, Photography, and Economics. He has published scholarship and reviews, as well as scholarly anthologies.
