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| Cory Doctorow linking up librarians in need with generous readers | |
| News > Activities | May 8, 2008 |
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Rather than step on his publishers' toes by taking "tips" for his free downloads, Doctorow is connecting would-be tippers with librarians and teachers without the wherewithall to buy the books...
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| Boom! Studios offering summer internships | |
| News > Education | May 2, 2008 |
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Boom! Studios is offering unpaid summer internships for college credit...
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| Applications due for Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop | |
| News > Education | March 4, 2008 |
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A NASA-funded educational program will send a dozen writers to Wyoming for a week to learn astronomy...
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| Alpha Workshop for younger writers | |
| News > Education | January 29, 2008 |
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Pittsburgh's seventh Alpha SF/F/H Workshop for Young Writers will be this July, immediately preceding Confluence...
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| Free comics workshop in Berkeley, California | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | January 9, 2008 |
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Friends of Lulu is starting a free, monthly comics workshop: "come and bring a sketchbook," they say...
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| Taos Toolbox is a "master class in sf writing" | |
| News > Education | December 18, 2007 |
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The Taos Toolbox Writers Workshop, taught by Walter Jon Williams and Kelly Link, is now accepting applications for June 2008...
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| Robert Sawyer helps dedicate David J. Williams sf collection at Kansas State University | |
| News > Activities | December 6, 2007 |
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Kansas State University acquired the collection of long-time collector David J. Williams III last year, and dedicated it this week, with cermonies that included...
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| Clarion West Names 2008 Instructors | |
| News > Education | September 14, 2007 |
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The 2008 Clarion West Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Workshop will again be held in Seattle, Washington. Instructors for the six-week long intensive workshop will include Cory Doctorow, Chuch Palahniuk, Paul Park, Mary Rosenblum, Sheree R. Thomas, and Connie Willis...
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| Carver and Gardner to teach 10-week workshop | |
| News > Education | September 11, 2007 |
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Jeffrey A. Carver and Craig Shaw Gardner will teach a 10-week intensive science fiction writing workshop at Pandemonium Books in Cambridge, Massachusetts...
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| Clarion Names 2008 Instructors | |
| News > Education | September 10, 2007 |
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The 2008 Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Workshop will be its second in San Diego, California. Instructors for the six-week long intensive workshop will include Neil Gaiman, Nalo Hopkinson, James Patrick Kelly, Kelly Link, Mary Anne Mohanraj, and Geoff Ryman...
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| de Lint, Crowley, and Kessel to teach and read in Seattle | |
| News > Education | August 24, 2007 |
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NW Media Arts and Seattle's Richard Hugo House present three Sundays of fantastic fiction writing workshops—followed by three Mondays of author readings and signings—this Autumn...
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| NASA sponsors art contest to depict "Life and Work on the Moon" | |
| News > Contests | August 23, 2007 |
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NASA is sponsoring an art contest, open to college students in the US, with the theme "Life and Work on the Moon." There will be cash prizes and exhibit opportunities for winners...
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| Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop teaches writers the stars | |
| News > Education | August 7, 2007 |
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A NASA-funded educational program sent science fiction writers to Wyoming to learn astronomy...
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| "Somatic Networks and Molecular Hacking in Eastern Standard Tribe | |
| News > Education | July 19, 2007 |
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Dr. Graham J. Murphy, of Trent University, recently published a paper investigating "Somatic Networks and Molecular Hacking in Eastern Standard Tribe," using Cory Doctorow's novel as his source material. The paper is now available...
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| Clarion West Write-a-Thon Raising Funds | |
| News > Organizations | June 19, 2007 |
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Clarion West Writers' Workshop is hosting its fourth annual Write-a-thon fundraiser. All the money raised goes to support the intensive six-week science fiction/fantasy writing workshop. Participating authors include Eileen Gunn, Paul Park, and Michael Swanwick. For more information...
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| Kansas Writers Workshop deadline approaching | |
| News > Education | May 18, 2007 |
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The deadline for applications to the Science Fiction Writers Workshop at the University of Kansas is 1 June. The workshop will run 25 June to 5 July, and...
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| Moore Donates SFWA Honorarium to Alpha | |
| News > Education | May 14, 2007 |
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SFWA Nebula Awards Toastmaster Ron D. Moore donated his entire honorarium to the Alpha SF/F/H Workshop for Young Writers. The money will be used...
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| Is science fiction good for public debate? | |
| News > Performances & Podcasts | April 25, 2007 |
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The Institute of Idea's Douglas Adams Memorial Debate will be on the topic "From Star Wars to the Battle of Ideas: Is science fiction good for public debate?" The debate will be held...
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| Shared Worlds writing camp for high school juniors and seniors | |
| News > Education | April 25, 2007 |
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South Carolina's Wofford College is hosting "Shared Worlds," an eight-day residential camp in which teenaged writers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, will learn...
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| Free roundtable discussion on Extraterrestrial Life | |
| News > Education | April 13, 2007 |
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New York City's Philoctetes Ccenter is hosting a free roundtable discussion of "Extraterrestrial Life" with panelists author David Marusek, NASA Chief Historian Stephen J. Dick,...
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| Druidawn Attempting to Take Over Every Facet of Young Writing Lives | |
| News > Organizations | April 9, 2007 |
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The Legends of Druidawn is an organization writing and reading stories and playing games in their own fantasy universe. Aimed at writers aged 7 to 18, it offers real-world and on-line...
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| Free SF/F Writing Course Available Online | |
| News > Education | March 5, 2007 |
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Author Jeffrey A. Carver's free course in Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy is available online.
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| Man on Mars... in 1965? | |
| News > Science Fiction Becoming Science Fact | February 28, 2007 |
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Dr. Freeman Dyson will be talking about a method by which people could have landed on Mars in the 1960s, drawing on his work on Project Orion.
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| Clarion West Application Deadline Approaching | |
| News > Education | February 27, 2007 |
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Clarion West—an intensive six-week workshop for writers of short science fiction, fantasy, and horror—will be held 17 June-27 July in Seattle, Washington. The application deadline is 1 April.
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| Science Fiction Database Uploaded | |
| News > Education | February 10, 2007 |
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The index to the SF/F Research Collection at Texas A&M's library is now available on-line.
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