Posted on 08/19/2024 9:01:54 AM PDT by Angelino97
Publishing Taught Me, the SFWA [Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association] online anthology project supported by a grant from the NEA, is seeking pitches for four essays to be included in the anthology. We are looking for contributions addressing the experiences of BIPOC [Black, Indigenous, People of Color] authors, editors, and other science fiction, fantasy, and horror publishing industry participants, so firsthand knowledge of them will be extremely helpful. We’re especially interested in seeing work from authors who customarily identify as “of color.”
Pitches should run between 50 and 100 words and should cover the main points of your topic in summary or outline. We’re also asking for an accompanying writing sample of up to 2000 words. It’s fine to submit multiple pitches. They are due by 6 p.m. Pacific Time on February 14. Please note that we have already accepted pitches on the following topics: Does an author’s identity matter, editing humor, editor-author relationships, creating opportunities for BIPOC in publishing. These accepted pitches have come from authors, editors, and author/editors; we would like to broaden the anthology’s representation of professional diversity.
Please submit your pitches via SFWA’s online portal; when asked “Where are you pitching?” use the arrow to select the “Publishing Taught Me” option. Authors of the four accepted pitches will be notified by 6 p.m. Pacific Time on February 22. The completed essays should be approximately 700 to 2000 words long.
Payment will be a flat $300 for each accepted, edited, and finalized essay. Deadlines, contracts, and revisions will be forthcoming for each essay. Authors will be invited to participate in a 2024 online panel on the general topic of BIPOC experiences in SFFH publishing.
The Publishing Taught Me project is overseen by multiple award-winning editor Nisi Shawl and two editorial interns, Somto Ihezue and Zhui Ning Chang.
How expensive is it to publish an "online anthology"? Why is federal grant money even needed?
Science fiction has turned into DEI toxic waste.
Fortunately I have a large collection of SF before the leftists destroyed it.
I should write one:
Ain’t Noways Tired
by De’jeff Chandler
Fortunately I have a large collection of SF before the leftists destroyed it.
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So do I. And it includes works by women and poc, some with leftist themes, but still quite enjoyable. But I wasn’t forced to read any of them. I CHOSE to read them because DEI and SJW weren’t their main selling point. Good stories were.
I din’t know if you watch any Youtube. If you do, check out a channel by Jon Del Arroz. He chronicles the cluster f the SF and Fantasy industry has turned into. Have you checked out the Hugo Awards the past couple years? White males are basically invisible.
Sadly, true. Of course, for decades, some SciFi movies have had leftist slants. Look at the premise of the 1951 "The Day the Earth Stood Still."
In addition, the advancement of science has made it more difficult to produce good science fiction books or movies without an educated reader or viewer having to suspend an increasingly larger amount of scientific facts.
Ain’t Noways Tired
by De’jeff Chandler
Should be a best-seller. Maybe you can buy a dozen martinis for the wife of the first black president and have her and her village write the foreword.
Thanks for posting this. I was wondering (just a little) why the president, vice-president, and so many other members of the SFWA Board of Directors resigned recently.
Have you seen “American Fiction?” I think you’d like it.
Every human that’s existed is a person of color.
lol! De’ jeff! lol!
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