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The Exploding Spaceship Spring Event Reviews for Authors

Posted on 2014-05-16 at 02:24 by angelablackwell

Review of the Doris Betts Spring Writers Festival at Mitchell Community College in Statesville, NC

Your Humble Reviewers were surprised to learn there was an annual writers’ event in our town, since we had not heard of it prior to about one week before the event. When we looked it up, we discovered that not only were three local writers attending, but that fantasy author N.K. Jemisin was also coming in from New York for the event. A chance to be in a writing workshop with her was too good to miss

Posted in The Exploding Spaceship | Tagged doris betts spring writers festival, eastercon, nora jemisin, outlantacon, ravencon

Paul Kincaid's From the Other Side, April 2014: Eastercon, awards news, Lagoon, Claire North, The Brick Moon, and Call and Response

Posted on 2014-04-29 at 20:06 by montsamu

From the Other Side, April 2014

By Paul Kincaid

Easter in Britain is traditionally the time for the gathering of the clans, otherwise known as Eastercon. This year it was held in Glasgow, and despite the fact that the Worldcon is in the UK this year, generally resulting in a smaller than usual Eastercon, it was by all accounts both well attended and very successful.

Of course, this year it was all about awards. For a start, there was the ‘Not the Clarke Award’ panel, by now a fixture at Eastercons. If we