Category: News and Editorials
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Climate Fiction, Slow Publishing, Fiction from Banned Nations, and more…
Climate science and climate fiction – where data intersects with art (Boing Boing) Climate change is happening now, and we need a literature of now to address its issues. As glaciers melt, corals bleach, typhoons kill and forest fires rage, a new genre called climate fiction has emerged from science fiction to stand out on…
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Literary Awards May Be Ruining Fiction, Looking Back at 2016…
We Love It When Presidents Enjoy Science Fiction (Wired) It says a lot about the growing respectability of science fiction that a sitting president would proudly trumpet his love of the genre. WIRED recently decided to celebrate that cultural shift by publishing the magazine’s first science fiction issue. The stories were contributed by authors such…
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Chinese Online Literature, Young Adult Science Fiction, Icelandic Literature…
Translated Chinese online literature making huge waves in overseas markets (Global Times) While online literature has long been considered bottom-tier by literature lovers in China, for some Western readers, checking to see if the latest chapter of their favorite online serial has been translated from Chinese into English is the first thing they do in…
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Trends in Indian Fiction, Writing in the Trump Era, Chinese Sci-Fi…
From inspiration to publication: immigrant authors talk about writing and publishing fiction in Canada (Canadian Immigrant) Writer Mayank Bhatt draws inspiration from his immigration experience as well, along with current events. In 2008, he immigrated to Canada from India, where he was a journalist. Released in September 2016, his novel, Belief, is about the immigrant…
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Writers Respond to Trump’s Election…
“Irish readers are like no others in the world”: How these homegrown publishers are making waves (The Journal) “Irish writing has become very sexy,” says Wright. “It’s the flavour du jour in British publishing and advances are being thrown all over the place and Irish writers are carrying off glittering prizes. There are lots of…
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Zadie Smith on the Importance of Dance to Writers, The Golden Age of Sci-Fi…
WritingCareer.com Helps Sci-fi/Fantasy Writers Find Speculative Fiction Markets (Press Release Rocket) Because speculative fiction is a popular genre that writers search for at WritingCareer.com, founder and Editor-in-chief Brian Scott decided to compile and continually update the new section with 15 markets that need story submissions right now. Each market listing specifies: current needs of the…
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Margaret Atwood on Dystopias, and Sci-Fi Exploring NYC’s Hispanic Roots…
Margaret Atwood: ‘All dystopias are telling you is to make sure you’ve got a lot of canned goods and a gun’ (The Guardian) When The Handmaid’s Tale was published, she says, the novel was reviewed by British critics as an enjoyable fantasy, and by the Canadians with a certain anxiety (“Could it happen here?”). In…
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Publishing House Seals Deal with Marvel, Understanding the ‘Slush Pile’…
What really happens to manuscripts sent to publishers? (ABC Online) In recent years the cobweb-draped tower of manuscripts tottering in the cleaning cupboard of a publishing house has been replaced with an electronic file on somebody’s hard drive. The slush pile, however, is not on the way out. Increasingly, it’s an avenue for emerging writers who…
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Arundhati Roy, Science Fiction and Entrepreneurship…
His mom banned science fiction, now he’s an award-winning publisher (Des Moines Register) Lars is 43 and makes his living writing about time travelers and vampire slayers, but his life itself is perhaps a greater flight of fantasy. He was once a small-town Iowa boy who went off to the big cities, New York and Los…
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Indie Authors Find Creative Freedom, Short Stories Don’t Pay…
The Rise of Self-Publishing Lends Authors Creative Freedom (The Lamron) This is not to say that the process doesn’t have its drawbacks. Despite the concept’s increasing popularity and the rise of Internet and digital printing, many within the literary world hold self-published books at a distance. 10 People (Besides the Author) Who Bring a Book…
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