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(1) MAINE PAPER INTERVIEWS LIADEN CREATORS. “Waterville authors’ marriage has stood the test of time – and deadlines”, in the Portland, ME Press-Herald. In the days when they were trying to build their careers as science fiction writers, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller had multiple jobs to pay the bills, and a shared typewriter. Lee
(1) WHAT’S IN THE HUGO VOTER PACKET? Ersatz Culture has assembled an infographic listing the existing 2023 Hugo Award Voter Packet Contents, with plans to update it as more content becomes available. Here’s an example, the Best Novel category. (2) HOW TO ACCESS THE HUGO VOTER PACKET. Jed Hartman has basic guidance as well as
Adorning the cover of the first-ever print edition of the new Islandia Journal quarterly magazine is the image of an Everglades Griffin. Part lion, part alligator (because Florida), and part bird, this mythical creature is both fantastical and practical all at once. Islandia — pronounced with or without a Spanish accent — is all about the fantastic. As the tiny print on the third page puts it, “ Islandia Journal is a (sub)tropical periodical of prose, poetry, and visual art.” To put it another way, Islandia is a collection of pictures and stories about Florida and the Caribbea...
Photo by Jessica Lipscomb Adorning the cover of the first-ever print edition of the new Islandia Journalquarterly magazine is the image of an Everglades Griffin. Part lion, part alligator (because Florida), and part bird, this mythical creature is both fantastical and practical all at once. Islandia — pronounced with or without a Spanish accent — is all about the fantastic. As the tiny print on the third page puts it, “ Islandia Journal is a (sub)tropical periodical of prose, poetry, an...
Katz has been slowly brewing the idea of starting a local zine for a handful of years. The high-school English teacher says the confinement of the pandemic was a pivotal moment. “During the pandemic, I kind of felt this hole in my life where physical interaction with my artistic community, my writing community, used to exist,” he tells New Times. “It felt like the right time to launch a print magazine that could bring people together while not having to do it in person quite yet.” Katz has fond memories of reading magazines as a kid and being entertained by the stories he read or th...