Outer Alliance Spotlight #77: Awards Season May 20, 2011
Posted by juliarios in : announcements, events, links, news , add a commentWelcome to Outer Alliance Spotlight #77. The Spotlight features news about (and sometimes interviews with) allies who are active in supporting and celebrating LGBTQI speculative fiction. This week we’re focusing on awards!
By now the internet is all abuzz with the Gaylactic Spectrum Short Fiction Awards news I announced on Monday, but there are several other awards to explore.
The Ursa Major Awards for anthropomorphic literature and art were announced last weekend in Columbus, OH, and we’d like to congratulate Kyell Gold, who won both the short fiction (for Bridges) and novel (for Shadow of the Father) categories!
This weekend is Nebula Weekend, and scads of awesome writers are converging in Washington DC for that. Best of luck to all the OA members on the nominee list. Hopefully next week we’ll be able to congratulate some of you!
The 23rd Annual Lammy Awards will take place on Thursday the 26th in New York. Once again, best of luck to OA members, and we hope to congratulate you soon!
The Hugos are just around the corner, and here’s a special podcast from Cheryl Morgan and Kevin Standlee of the Science Fiction Awards Watch to answer all your questions about how the Hugos work. And, because we neglected to mention it before, congratulations to N. K. Jemisin for collecting a Hugo nomination for The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms!
In other Hugo news, the Hugo Voter Packet was released today. If you sign up as a supporting member of this year’s WorldCon, you can access much of the nominated work in electronic format to help you decide where your votes should go.
Finally, a non-awards-related piece of news:
Tennessee has passed the “Don’t Say Gay” Bill. How terribly disappointing. But! George Takei offers an alternative. If you want to express your Takei Pride, you can order It’s OK to be Takei items here.
That’s all for this week. Come back next Friday for the big Gaylaxicon OA Podcast episode!
Outer Alliance Spotlight #29: Spring Break Part 2 April 9, 2010
Posted by juliarios in : links, submissions , add a commentWelcome to Outer Alliance Spotlight #29. Normally, the Spotlight features an ally who writes, reviews, publishes, or is in some other way involved with LGBTQI speculative fiction. This Friday, however, marks the second of a two week break from the norm. Spring is here, and your faithful correspondent is overwhelmed with travel plans, so instead of interviews, you’ll get some links to April appropriate content elsewhere on the web.
This week, our focus is on submissions!
First, Bart and Kay over at Crossed Genres have teamed up with several awesome judges to put on the Science in My Fiction contest. Submissions opened on the 1st of April, and will run until the 30th of June. They’re looking for science fiction stories inspired by recent science news.
Second, Hellebore and Rue (edited by OA members, Catherine Lundoff and JoSelle Vanderhooft) is still open for submissions of lesbian magic user stories. Submissions close May 15th.
Third, Megan Arkenberg is looking for articles, fiction and poetry exploring the ways in which speculative fiction and politics interact. Her anthology, Crimethink, has a tentative deadline of May 15th.
And finally, on a non-submissions note, the Ursa Major Awards are open for voting until the 18th of this month (that’s just over a week from now!), so if you like anthropomorphic animal stories, movies, and art, the time to express your preferences is now.
That’s all for this week. Next week will bring us back to interviews as usual. Happy Spring!