Press Release #14

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SPECULATIVE LITERATURE FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES TRAVEL GRANT WINNER

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SPECULATIVE LITERATURE FOUNDATION PO Box 1693, Dubuque, IA 52004-1693

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For Immediate Release: March 1, 2006

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SPECULATIVE LITERATURE FOUNDATION ANNOUCES OLDER WRITERS GRANT WINNER

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The Speculative Literature Foundation (SLF) is delighted to announce that its second annual Older Writers Grant is to be awarded to Douglas Smith. The $750 grant will be used to help Mr. Smith in his professional writing career. Honorable Mentions included Susanna Crowley, Rob Hunter, Roger Pepper, Kate Robinson, and Pam Summa. These writers will receive a one-year free membership to the Speculative Literature Foundation, which offers many helpful resources for speculative fiction writers. 

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The award is intended for writers of fifty years or older to assist such writers who are just starting to work at a professional level. The award was chosen by a jury consisting of M.J. Goodner, Sandra Kasturi, and Sheree Thomas of the SLF on the basis of interest and merit. 

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The Older Writers Grant is generously sponsored in its entirety by Centric Advertising (<a href="http://www.centric.com/" target=_new>http://www.centric.com/</a>).

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For more information and guidelines for the previous award, please click here.

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Please direct any questions to Sandra Katsuri, Award Administrator, at <a href="mailto:olderwriters@speculativeliterature.org">olderwriters@speculativeliterature.org</a>

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Contact: Cheryl Morgan <a href="mailto:press@speculativeliterature.org">press@speculativeliterature.org</a>

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The Speculative Literature Foundation is a volunteer-run, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the interests of readers, writers, editors and publishers in the speculative literature community.

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 "Speculative literature" is a catch-all term meant to inclusively span the breadth of fantastic literature, encompassing literature ranging from hard and soft science fiction to epic fantasy to ghost stories to folk and fairy tales to slipstream to magical realism to modern mythmaking -- any literature containing a fabulist or speculative element.

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More information about the Speculative Literature Foundation is available from its web site (<a href="http://www.speculativeliterature.org/">http://www.speculativeliterature.org/</a>) or by writing to <a href="mailto:info@speculativeliterature.org">info@speculativeliterature.org</a>