THE PETER NICHOLLS ESSAY PRIZE 2026 IS NOW OPEN
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We are pleased to announce our next essay-writing competition. The award is open to all post-graduate research students and to all early career researchers (up to five years after the completion of your PhD) who have yet to find a full-time or tenured position. The prize is guaranteed publication in Foundation in 2026. To be considered for the competition, please submit an original article on any topic, period, theme, author, film or other media within the (broadly defined) field of science fiction and its academic study. Approximate length should be 6000-8000 words. All submitted articles should comply with the guidelines to contributors as set out on the journal pages of the SF Foundation website. Only one article per contributor may be submitted. The deadline for submission is 11 January 2026. All competition entries, with a short (50 word) biography, should be sent to the journal editor at paulmarchrussell@gmail.com. The entries will be judged by the editorial team and the winner will be announced in the spring 2026 issue of Foundation.
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Published 5 June 2025
E.J. SWIFT TO BE GUEST OF HONOUR AT THE SFF AGM
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The Science Fiction Foundation will be holding its AGM online, in partnership with the BSFA, on Sunday, 22 June. We are delighted that E.J. Swift will be our Guest of Honour, when she will be discussing her forthcoming novel, When There are Wolves Again. There will also be a panel of experts to discuss this year's Clarke Award (to be announced on 25 June). There will be a link nearer the time for members to join on request from the SFF Chair, Shana Worthen. The draft schedule is:
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0945: Doors open
1000: E.J. Swift in conversation with Paul March-Russell
1100: Fission #5 (chaired by Eugen Bacon)
1200: SFF AGM
1300: Applied Science Fiction
1400: The Clarke Award Shortlist 2025 (chaired by Jonathan Thornton)
1500: BSFA AGM
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Published 30 May 2025 (revised 1 June 2025)
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​​​​​MAUREEN K. SPELLER TRAVEL FUND NOW AVAILABLE
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In honour of our departed friend and colleague, Maureen Kincaid Speller, we are launching an annual travel fund of up to £500 to enable independent scholars to pursue their research. The fund can be used to attend conferences, workshops and archives both in the UK and overseas. This has been made possible by the profits from the When It Changed conference held online in December 2022, for which we thank all the attendees. For further details, go to our new Research and Travel Funds page on the website.
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Published 1 May 2023
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​FOUNDATION EDITOR CO-LAUNCHES NEW SCIENCE FICTION IMPRINT
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Paul March-Russell and Una McCormack have launched a science fiction imprint, Gold SF, devoted to new feminist writing, to be published by Goldsmiths Press. The call for submissions is below:
Gold SF - Call for Submissions
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Goldsmith’s Press is seeking to establish a dedicated imprint to publish feminist science fiction. We believe that sf and speculative fictions offer a mode of critical and utopian thinking ideally placed to address contemporary issues. We are therefore looking to commission novella and novel length work which answers to the times, dealing with subjects such as:
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· Anti-rationalism and the rise of the alt-right
· The climate crisis and feminism in the Age of the Anthropocene
· Global movements of populations and refugees
· New visions of race, class, and queerness
· Expanding frontiers in gender and sexuality
· Decoloniality and indigenous knowledge traditions
· Pathways to resistance and rebellion
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We are particularly keen to hear from new voices not traditionally represented by science fiction, literary fiction, and liberal feminism.
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Enquiries to: Ellen Parnavelas - E.Parnavelas@gold.ac.uk
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Editorial board: Abi Curtis, Elizabeth English, Joan Haran, Una McCormack, Paul March-Russell, C. Palmer-Patel, Aishwarya Subramanian, Sheree Renee Thomas and Aliya Whiteley
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Follow us at: https://twitter.com/GoldSF_Books
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Published 17 April 2020 (last updated 5 September 2024)
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