FOUNDATION WELCOMES NEW EDITORIAL CONSULTANTS
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Following the sad loss of our friend and colleague Heather Osborne, we are happy to announce that Nicole Devarenne and Elizabeth Miller have agreed to join Foundation as editorial consultants. Nicole, who is Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature at Dundee University, was one of the keynote speakers at CRSF 2019 and she recently spoke at this year's SFF conference. She participated in the 2022 AGM panel on John Christopher and Nigel Kneale (see Foundation 143). Elizabeth is Lecturer in Media Studies and Digital Ethics at Bangor University where she has been hosting a series of conferences on tech-noir. An expert also in French New Wave cinema, her co-authored book on the legacies of Blade Runner is forthcoming. We welcome them both!
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Published 10 December 2024
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ANNOUNCING THE PETER NICHOLLS ESSAY PRIZE 2025
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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 2025.
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To be considered for the competition, please submit an original article on any topic, period, theme, author, film or other media within the 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.
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The deadline for submission is Monday, 6 January 2025. 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 2025 issue of Foundation.
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Published 7 March 2024
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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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