Most conventions are annual events. At many of the larger cons are rff members indulging their passion for fun, creative dress, and dialog with like-minded readers.
At these cons meet members of several organizations that share the goals and mission of Reading for the Future, including RFF. They meet amid the fun to arrange collaborative activities and projects.
These members are often panelists and workshop presenters at these conventions. These members include authors and artists of the very genre that spawns the cons.
These members show teachers and homeschoolers and parents and librarians how to motivate children to read the books, which books are judged the better ones for such lofty purposes, and how to encourage youth to write for future youth, to pass on the sword as it were. Out of these conventions come the resources that are given freely to those who will teach and share.
OK. OK. I am NOT a sci fi writer. Just a wannabe. I am a fan. I get thrills from my association with these lofty elites of the genre, the authors who work as members of RFF. And there are quite a few. I have read books written by some of them.
To inform you readers of the upcoming conventions, I elected to make an entry to which comments could be added. Those of you who have a convention to list, comment away.
I will get the ball rolling with a comment on Rustycon in Seattle. I'll try to add more. You do the same.
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Call for Papers: Sci Fi Cons are Asking now for the Future -- 10/17/10
Are you a serious scholar of science fiction? Are you a literary critic? Do you enjoy serving on panels while dressed as aliens?
These science fiction conventions have asked members of RFF to prepare presentations in a Call for Papers.
Tuckborough, The Shire, of the 3rd Conference on the Middle Earth.
Visit http://www.3rdcome.org
The deadline for the call for papers for Life, the Universe, & Everything XXIX is November 15.
The Marion K. and Doc E Smith Symposium on Science Fiction and
Fantasy will be held February 10-12, 2011, on the Provo campus of
Brigham Young University.
We are especially interested in papers in the following areas:
*Mormon culture, literature, and society in relation to sf&f
รข€¢ Literary criticism/analysis of sf&f and related literature
(medieval, renaissance, mythology, magic realism, etc.)
*Science and technology (especially new or unusual)
*Analysis of sf&f relating to poetry and/or theatre
*Serious analysis of sf&f in cinema, television, radio, and other media
Submit FULL papers for consideration to LTU&E to Academics,
4087 JKB, Provo, UT 84602 or email electronic submissions as RTF
files to marny_parkin @ byu.edu (note new address). Include name,
phone number, street address, and email address on cover sheet.
Papers submitted without contact information will not be considered. Student papers welcome. Please see ltue.org for more information.
Papers must be submitted no later than November 15, 2010. Accepted
papers may be published in the Proceedings volume at a later date.
Other scifi cons have calls out for papers and panels. Visit the resources page for a list of conventions that have frequently hosted workshops and talks by members of RFF.
This list is growing as I learn more about the past activities of RFF. If your favorite science fiction or fantasy convention has room for a session that meets our mission, or workshops for teachers, parents, and librarians on encouraging reading with speculative fiction, let us know.
Please tell the deadline for the presenters to apply as well as the dates of the next convention. Website links help, too, as do contact names.
Maybe there is a calendar in the making.
Either blog comments or direct contact are welcome ways of sharing this information.
These science fiction conventions have asked members of RFF to prepare presentations in a Call for Papers.
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"We wouldn't mind a paper or two ourselves," writes Tuckborough, The Shire, of the 3rd Conference on the Middle Earth.
Visit http://www.3rdcome.org
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Featured Call
The deadline for the call for papers for Life, the Universe, & Everything XXIX is November 15.
The Marion K. and Doc E Smith Symposium on Science Fiction and
Fantasy will be held February 10-12, 2011, on the Provo campus of
Brigham Young University.
We are especially interested in papers in the following areas:
*Mormon culture, literature, and society in relation to sf&f
รข€¢ Literary criticism/analysis of sf&f and related literature
(medieval, renaissance, mythology, magic realism, etc.)
*Science and technology (especially new or unusual)
*Analysis of sf&f relating to poetry and/or theatre
*Serious analysis of sf&f in cinema, television, radio, and other media
Submit FULL papers for consideration to LTU&E to Academics,
4087 JKB, Provo, UT 84602 or email electronic submissions as RTF
files to marny_parkin @ byu.edu (note new address). Include name,
phone number, street address, and email address on cover sheet.
Papers submitted without contact information will not be considered. Student papers welcome. Please see ltue.org for more information.
Papers must be submitted no later than November 15, 2010. Accepted
papers may be published in the Proceedings volume at a later date.
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This list is growing as I learn more about the past activities of RFF. If your favorite science fiction or fantasy convention has room for a session that meets our mission, or workshops for teachers, parents, and librarians on encouraging reading with speculative fiction, let us know.
Please tell the deadline for the presenters to apply as well as the dates of the next convention. Website links help, too, as do contact names.
Maybe there is a calendar in the making.
Either blog comments or direct contact are welcome ways of sharing this information.
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