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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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.