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Speculative Literature Foundation Newsletter - No. 11

SLF Newsletter No. 11 December 2004
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In this issue:
Forthcoming Annual Report
Submissions Open for Second Fountain Award
Website Additions
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* Annual Report:

The SLF's first Annual Report to Members will be
forthcoming in the near future from Director Mary Anne
Mohanraj. It will include a summary of accomplishments to
date, plans for the future and a statement of where we
stand financially at present.

* Fountain Award:

SPECULATIVE LITERATURE FOUNDATION ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS FOR
FOUNTAIN AWARD

The Speculative Literature Foundation is accepting
nominations for the second annual Fountain Award, with a
prize of $1000 given to a short story of exceptional
literary quality. The Fountain Award will be judged by a
select jury, and chosen from work nominated by magazine and
anthology editors. Non-genre publications are encouraged to
nominate material. Each publication may nominate up to
three stories for inclusion, from work published in the
previous calendar year (2004); nominations must be received
by February 1st, 2005. The winner will be announced in mid-
May of 2005.

The award is intended for short fiction; any story
submitted should contain some form of speculative element.
Possible genres include (but are not limited to): magical
realism, slipstream, science fiction, fantasy, fable,
modern folk and fairy tales, cyberpunk, ghost stories,
alternate history, interstitial, etc. If an editor is not
certain whether a particular piece will qualify, they
should feel free to submit it in any case; the
determination of whether it is appropriate will be decided
by that year's jury.

For more information and guidelines, please see our
website:
http://speculativeliterature.org/Awards/SLFFountainAward.php

Please direct any questions to Karen Meisner, Award
Administrator, at FountainAward@speculativeliterature.org.

For last year's winner and honorable mentions, please
visit:
http://speculativeliterature.org/Awards/SLFFountainAward/20
03.php

* Website additions:

RESOURCES
READERS
MAGAZINES

Absolute Magnitude: http://www.dnapublications.com/
DNA Publications, Inc., Warren Lapine, Editor, PO Box
2988,Radford, VA 24143-2988. Tel: (540) 763-2925; E-mail:
dnapublications@iname.com. Poetry, fiction, interviews,
letters.

Asimov's Science Fiction: www.asimovs.com
Sheila Willliams, Editor, 475 Park Ave. South, 11th Floor,
New York, NY 10016. One of the top three magazines in the
field; winner of multiple awards for both the magazine
itself and its stories and poems.

EidolonNet: Australian SF Online: http://eidolon.net/
Newsmagazine of Australian SF awards, conventions, authors,
books, magazines, workshops, reviews, etc.

Of Unicorns & Space Stations: www.genedavis.com/m agazine/
Gene Davis, Editor, 1472 West 2450 South, Woods Cross, UT
84087. Poetry, fiction, art in areas of fantasy and science
fiction.

Mytholog: www.mytholog.com
[E-zine] Asher Black, Editor-in-Chief; Clear Glass,Editor;
Mari Miller-Lamb, Fiction Editor; Asher Black, Poetry
Editor. A quarterly collection of stories and poems, essays
and reviews, writers and editors, illustrations and
artists, that find myth in places odd and ordinary.

ACADEMICS
JOURNALS
CORRECTION -- The Internet Review of Science Fiction:
http://www.irosf.com/
Founded January, 2004. "A forum for the serious exploration
of the literature of the fantastic," IRO SF publishes
articles, essays, interviews, reviews, and
criticism."
RESEARCH MATERIALS
Snow White:
http://www.sc ils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/snowwhite.html
Informative resource for those interested in teaching the
fairy tale and / or one of its various interpretations.

WRITERS
NEW SECTION HEADING! -- YOUNG WRITERS
Resources for Teen Writers:
http://www.sff.net/people/davekirtley/teenwriter/TeenResources.ht
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Includes links for short story markets and writing contests for
teens interested in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing.