More comics nominated for the People’s Choice Awards
1. "In Likeness Of"
2. "The Guilty"
3. "Why I Wake Up Late"
4. "Blind Beauty"
5. "The Moondancer"
6. "The Prophet"
Click HERE for the full list.
Fully Booked’s Picks for People’s Choice Awards
Remember the First Philippine Graphic/Fiction Awards? The sponsor, Fully Booked, has unveiled its shortlist for the winners.
Download the stories HERE.
Read, enjoy, and cast your vote on the day of awarding, July 15, 2006. For details on the event, see this page in Fully Booked Online.
The 2nd Akira’s Nightmare Animation Scriptwriting Laboratory
posted by larry e. christian on the phil sf and f writers guild:
The 2nd Akira's Nightmare Animation Scriptwriting Laboratory The goal of this laboratory is to develop animators who can create their own materials. This workshop also seeks to develop animation "toon" writers/story editors (primetime or non primetime). (more…)
Quatre Gats Press: Site Launch and Call for Submissions
Quatre Gats Press is a new local publishing alternative for Filipino SSFF writers. They also have an upcoming anthology that still needs contributions. As quoted from the official website:
Quatre Gats is a newly launched independent press based in the Philippines which aims to specialize in publishing innovative thematic anthologies, both fiction and non-fiction. We’ve opened up submissions for â€Tropics of Love,†an anthology of fiction based on Jose Rizal’s “Noli Me Tangere†and “El Filibusterismo.†If you’re interested in submitting for the anthology, please take a look at the submission guidelines. Deadline for submission of stories is on November 1, 2006. We’re looking at a publication date of January 2007.submission guidelines are here: http://www.quatre-gats.com/submit.html check out their blog as well: http://press.quatre-gats.com
New Worlds Livejournal Community
Learned via silverhakai's multiply blog:
The science fiction and fantasy fan community New Worlds Alliance has created its own Livejournal Community, moderated by LJ user silverhakai. The first post is an announcement about the upcoming 4th New Worlds convention, entitled A Time Machine.
Read the details at the comm itself.
Call for Submissions: Philippine Speculative Fiction Vol.2
From Dean Francis Alfar's blog:
I am now accepting submissions of short fiction pieces for consideration for the anthology "Philippine Speculative Fiction Vol.2". Speculative fiction is the literature of wonder that spans the genres of fantasy, science fiction, horror and magic realism or falls into the cracks in-between. 1. Only works of speculative fiction will be considered for publication. As works of the imagination, the theme is open and free. 2. Stories must cater to an adult sensibility. 3. Stories must be written in English. 4. Stories must be authored by Filipinos or those of Philippine ancestry. 5. Preference will be given to original unpublished stories, but previously published stories will also be considered. In the case of previously published material, kindly include the title of the publishing entity and the publication date. 6. First time authors are welcome to submit. In the initial volume, there was a near 50-50 split of established and new authors. 7. Each author may submit only one story for consideration. 8. Each story’s word count must be no fewer than 3,000 words and no more than 5,000 words. 9. All submissions must be in Rich Text Format (.rtf – save the document as .rft on your word processor) and attached to an email to this address: dean@kestrelimc.com. Submissions received in any other format will be deleted, unread. 10. The subject of your email must read: 2nd Philippine Speculative Fiction Submission: (title) (word count); where (title) is replaced by the title of your short story, without the parentheses, and (word count) is the word count of your story, without the parentheses. For example - 2nd Philippine Speculative Fiction Submission: The Last Siren 4500. 11. All submissions must be accompanied by a cover letter that includes your name, brief bio, contact information, previous work (if any). 12. Deadline for submissions is September 15, 2006. After that date, final choices will be made and letters of acceptance or regret sent out via email. 13. Target publishing date is December 2006/January 2007. 14. Compensation for selected stories will be 2 contributor’s copies of the published anthology. Dean Francis Alfar, editorQuestions? Comments? Email Dean at dean@kestrelimc.com or leave a comment at this post in his blog.