Nisi Shawl has been announced as the recipient of a private scholarship to attend next year’s Internation Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Arthur Hlavaty, Bernadette Bosky, and Kevin Maroney has previously announced that they would be giving a private scholarship to an individual to attend.
A private scholarship to permit a person of color to attend next year’s International Conference of the Fantastic in the Arts in Orlando, FL from march 17-21. The award is a private presentation by Arthur Hlavaty, Bernadette Bosky, and Kevin Maroney.
To qualify for the scholarship, the applicant should:
The decision will be made by the judges using their our own criteria, including (but far from limited to) any writing you have done that we have seen and if we already know you personally; the decision is not subject to debate.
The deadline is Thursday, November 12.
San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions, Inc. (SFSFC) has announced that Kirsten M. Berry is the recipient of this year’s scholarship to attend SMOFCon 27 in Austin, Texas. Berry has been attending and working on conventions of various sizes for twenty-five years.
Patrick Rothfuss is hosting a fundraiser to raise money for Heifer International. Making a donation through Rothfuss, either by mail or Paypal, will enter the donor into a raffle to be tuckerized in his next novel, The Wise Man’s Fear. The fundraising drive will run through November 15.
The Odyssey Writing Workshop is launching a series of on-line courses to help those who aren’t able to make it to the annual workshop. The first on-line workshop, Showing versus Telling, will be run by Jeanne Cavelos. Sessions will last one hour each week for six weeks, with the entire course costing $295. Odyssey’s Online Classes offer live lectures and
discussions using Web conferencing software.
The Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund (TAFF) Race for 2010 is underway. The winner will travel to Eastercon to help build ties between North American and European fandom. Anyone active in fandom prior to April 2008 may vote. There is a US$3 or £2 voting fee. This year’s candidates are Frank Wu and the team of Anne K.G. Murphy and Brian Gray. The ballot and the candidates’ platforms can be found on the TAFF website.
SFSFC, San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions, is once again offering a scholarship of $500 to allow convention runners to attend SMOFCon, this year to be held in Austin, Texas. The scholarship is open to any con-runners, but applicants must demonstrate that their attendance will benefit Bay area science fiction fandom. Applications must be received by October 15.
Author Dave Freer is moving his family from South Africa to Australia. Because of the worldwide economy, however, he discovered that he suddenly doesn’t have enough to pay the quarantine fee for their dogs and cats. Freer will be posting his novel Save the Dragons on his website, continuing when certain fund-raising thresholds are reached. Currently, Freer has raised enough to post the first ten chapters.
Author Jeanne Robinson, wife of Spider Robinson, is scheduled to start a round of chemotherapy for a virulent form of biliary cancer. A benefit concert for Jeanne will be held on Friday, September 18 at 7:30 at Cates Hill Chapel on Bowen Island and an e-bay auction has been set up as well as donations through Paypal to help defray the cost of treatment.
Fantasy author David Eddings, who died earlier this year, has bequeathed approximately $10 million dollars to National Jewish Health, nearly one third of Eddings’s estate. The remaining portion of the estate will go to Reed College. The portion for NJH will be used to pioneer new approaches in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of childhood asthma. Eddings’s wife, Leigh, who died last year, suffered from asthma for most of her life.