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ALSO!

A Thing I am doing:

Nominations for this year’s James Tiptree Award are open now! Eligible works should be published in 2019 or late 2018, and here’s the official explanation:

“…an annual literary prize for science fiction or fantasy that expands or explores our understanding of gender. Pat created the award in collaboration with author Karen Joy Fowler. The aim of the award is not to look for work that falls into some narrow definition of political correctness, but rather to seek out work that is thought-provoking, imaginative, and perhaps even infuriating. The Tiptree Award is intended to reward those writers and other creative artists who are bold enough to contemplate shifts and changes in gender roles, a fundamental aspect of any society.”

Basically, SF/fantasy/speculative fiction that involves explorations of gender, any subgenre (romance, graphic novel, YA, etc).

So you can self-nominate, and I’m going to submit a couple of mine, but you can nominate things I’ve written too! And put in comments! And I would be excited if you did!

(Also, if you’ve written and had published - self-published counts, but fanfic doesn’t, as far as I can tell - something that you want to submit, do it! There’re only around 30 entrants as of today, May 2.)

Here’s the link to the nomination form - it’s really easy; it just needs the book or story info (author, title, date, publisher, link to where it can be purchased), and any additional comments!

So if you would also like to nominate stories of mine - things that’re SF/fantasy, published in 2019 or late 2018, which honestly is basically everything, including Demon and Prophecy and Elemental and the upcoming lesbian witch-and-lawyer sequel to Elemental - please do!

I’ve linked directly to the three of my own stories I’ve mentioned above, since those’re the ones I’m thinking of submitting, but here’s the link to my website for the more complete list, if there’s something else of mine you want to nominate!

Nominations close December 1, 2019. So you can keep adding nominations until then, for me or yourself or something else awesome you think should be on the honors list! (They’ll do an Honors List, along with the actual winner.)