Monthly Archives: November 2011

X-Men’s Claremont Donates Papers to Columbia

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Chris Claremont, who worked on Marvel’s X-Men and Uncanny X-Men series for 17 years, will donate his archives to Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Publishers Weekly reports:

Claremont’s archive includes materials for all of his major writing projects over the last 40 years. The collection includes notebooks with story ideas as well as drafts of short stories, plays, novels and comic books as well as materials from Claremont’s early training in the theater and his career as an actor.

Columbia hopes to create a research center for New York comics archives, and toward this end will celebrate its acquisition of the Claremont papers by holding the Comic New York conference March 24-25, 2012 at the University’s Low Library.

[Thanks to Andrew Porter for the story.]

2011 Nova Winners

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The 2011 Nova Awards for excellence in British and Irish fanzines were presented November 13 at Novacon 41 in Nottingham, England.

Best Fanzine

  • 1. Head, edited by Doug Bell & Christina Lake
  • 2. A Meara For Observers, edited by Mike Meara
  • 3. Banana Wings, edited by Claire Brialey & Mark Plummer

Best Fanzine Writer

  • 1. Claire Brialey
  • 2. Yvonne Rowse
  • 3. James Bacon
  •     Mark Plummer

Best Fanzine Artist

  • 1. Dave Hicks
  • 2. Steve Green
  •     Steve Jeffrey
  •     Sue Mason
  •    Alison Scott

[Thanks to Nova Awards Administrator Steve Green for the story.]

Mascari Wins 2011 ISFiC Writers Contest

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Mary Mascari’s short story “The Pod” has won the 2011 ISFiC Writers Contest. Her award was announced November 11 at Windycon, the Chicago area’s longest running science fiction convention. She received a cash prize of $300, plus membership and a room at Windycon, and her story was published in the program book.

Mascari won for the second year in a row, joining the ranks of other two-time winners Richard Chwedyk (1986 & 1988) and C.T. Fluhr (1993 & 1996). The award has been presented since 1986.

Honorable mentions went to Michael Unger for “Dawn Must Come” and Jeff Byrne for “The Un-usual Suspects.” The honorable mention winners received a silver coin.

The judges for the 2011 Award were Bill Fawcett, Roland Green, and Elizabeth Anne Hull.

The full press release follows the jump.

[Thanks to Steven H Silver for the story.]

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SFWA Creates Estates Page

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The SFWA Estates Page has been added to the professional organization’s website. It’s the place for editors and publishers who want to reprint material by a deceased writer and need help seeking permissions.

Bud Webster, SFWA Estates Liaison, credits the new page to the “significantly hard work” of Michael Capobianco.

 [Thanks to Andrew Porter for the story.]

New Bid for 2014 DSC

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Curt Phillips, Gary Robe and Warren Buff are the central committee of a new bid to hold the 2014 DeepSouthCon.

They’re currently considering facilities in Kingsport, TN, Johnson City, TN and Bristol, VA.  If selected, they’ll name their convention ConTrails

The bid will be submitted at DSC 50 in Huntsville next year.

[Thanks to Andrew Porter for the story.]

2011 Endeavour Award Winner

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Cherie Priest of Washington State has won the 2011 Endeavour Award for her novel Dreadnought.  A $1000 honorarium accompanies the award, now in its thirteenth year. The winner was announced over the weekend at OryCon.

The Endeavour Award honors a distinguished science fiction or fantasy book, either a novel or a single-author collection, created by a writer living in the Pacific Northwest.  The other finalists were A Cup of Normal by Devon Monk; The Bards of Bone Plain by Patricia McKillip; Black Prism by Brent Weeks; and Silver Borne by Patricia Briggs.

The judges for the 2011 Award were Bud Sparhawk, John Joseph Adams, and Jo Walton.

The full press release follows the jump.

[Thanks to James Fiscus for the story.]

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