Final week for entries for this year's Peter Nicholls Essay Prize - deadline is 11 January. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/...

Quick reminder that, not only is Christmas around the corner, the deadline for this year's Peter Nicholls Essay Prize is only six weeks away - 11 January. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/...

Farah Mendlesohn is convening a symposium on Frances Hardinge next July at King's College London. All welcome! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-one-day-...

The SF Collections at Liverpool host the Olaf Stapledon Archive. We're delighted that SFF trustee Una McCormack was able to discuss Stapledon's landmark debut novel with Matthew De Abaitua and Andy Miller. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/253...

Proud to be sponsoring this event next summer.

A request on behalf of Gold SF. For the first time, the Nebula Award is honouring poetry. They would like to put forward Jessy Randall's latest collection, The Path of Most Resistance. But it can only be nominated by a member of the SFWA. Would someone like to do so? Email [email protected]

A reminder that we have two current calls for papers - the Peter Nicholls Essay Prize (deadline: 11 January 2026) and a special issue on pulp sf (deadline: 5 April 2026). Details in the newsfeed. www.sf-foundation.org/fresh-about

Cfp with a sf element. www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/10/call...

The deadline for the 2026 SFRA conference has been extended to 20 November. sfra.org/conferences/...

Tickets now available for the 2025 London sf theatre festival. www.cyborphic.com/talos-2025

Our journal editor, Paul March-Russell, and editorial consultant, Anna McFarlane, have been busily podcasting. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

F151 has landed!

Apologies to members for the delay in sending out the latest issue of Foundation. (Actually, we were a little ahead of schedule.) We hope to have them in the post next week.

Microfiction writing competition for anyone 16+. london.sciencegallery.com/sgl-events/s...

F151 is out! Here's the ToC with pieces from, amongst others, Joy Sanchez-Taylor, Nisi Shawl and Sheree Renee Thomas. And, as an added bonus, membership rates for 2026 have been frozen! So, it's the perfect time to join and support our activities. www.sf-foundation.org/sf-foundatio...

Online exhibition, marking 50 years of the Voyager space probe, co-created by Jonathan Thornton, our Book Reviews Editor. digitalheritagelab.liverpool.ac.uk/voyager

Farah Mendlesohn, Melanie Fishbane, Jed Hartman and Emily Tesh in conversation about Joanna Russ. fb.me/e/js9qlm5yL

2-year research post in a sf-adjacent project. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

F151 is off the printers! A special issue on 'women in the black fantastic' with features by Nisi Shawl and Sheree Renee Thomas. If you want to become a member of the SFF, you can join via the website. www.sf-foundation.org/new-membersh...

Latest cfp - special (autumn 2026) issue of Foundation on pulp sf. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/08/...

An in-person event to launch an online exhibition, Brian Aldiss and the Natural World, curated by the SFF Collections at Liverpool. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/brian-aldi...

Eileen Gunn has started this GoFundMe on behalf of Nisi Shawl, GOH at this year's Worldcon, but short of funds for their next project. gofund.me/ed5ace6d

Job opportunity teaching science fiction in Liverpool. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOC313/l...

Fascinating festival in Senegal. www.graphichistorycompany.com/futurewaves?...

Editorial consultant and director of the Olaf Stapledon Centre, Will Slocombe, has announced a new call for chapters on sf and social problems. See our newsfeed for more details. www.sf-foundation.org/fresh-about

Editorial consultant Anna McFarlane on techno-futures and the medical humanities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtAJ...

Tonnvane Wiswell of the London Lovecraft Festival is editing a new magazine of weird short fiction. If interested in submitting a story, you can contact Tonnvane at [email protected]

Many congratulations to Sierra Greer for winning this year's Clarke Award and congrats to our sponsored judges, Nic Clarke and John Coxon.

A quick reminder that, although Foundation publishes special issues and special sections, we also publish general issues and accept submissions throughout the year. If you'd like to submit an article to Foundation, here's our style guide. www.sf-foundation.org/style-guide

We are sad to announce the death of Prof Simon James, one of the leading experts on the work of H.G. Wells. His enthusiasm, knowledge, and support of younger colleagues will be deeply missed. readdurhamenglish.wordpress.com/2025/06/18/o...

Later than usual - due to several other calls - but the Peter Nicholls Essay Prize 2026 is now open! Details in our newsfeed plus the latest on the AGM. www.sf-foundation.org/fresh-about

Draft schedule for our AGM (22 June), with Guest of Honour E.J. Swift, is now online. www.sf-foundation.org/fresh-about

"We had sensed this need for greater diversity in the ecosystem" Editors of GoldSF @unamccormack.bsky.social & Paul March-Russell - on why they started a feminist sci-fi imprint, who they want to read proposals from and where the project is going! www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvhL...

Wyndham symposium at St Andrews in June. events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/a-ver...

Cfp on Andor Season 2 (deadline impending). www.redfuturesmag.com/publications...

This may be of interest to a few people. (Fixed-term to begin with but the OLH are hoping to extend the position.) cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/edit...

Sending support and solidarity to the staff of the University of Warsaw, including the delegates at the Forgotten SF conference.

Cfp for the next Speculative Fiction Across Media conference. sfamla.org/speculative-...

Call for papers. arttvfilm.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/t...

Free for film students and young filmmakers. www.eventbrite.com/e/in-convers...

So in the midst of the chaos and joy of Eastercon, @ngjeannette.bsky.social and I have set up a charity auction: Genre Creators for Trans rights in the UK and South Africa as a small personal response to what's happening in the world. You can bid on cool things here www.32auctions.com/genrefortrans

Congratulations to all the winners and runners-up! www.sffworld.com/2025/04/news...

Our former editor, Farah Mendlesohn, has written this (sadly) relevant essay for the Seattle Worldcon. seattlein2025.org/2025/04/18/f...

We are sad to hear of the death of Damian Broderick, novelist, anthologist, critic and science writer. Read more about him here and then find his books! sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/broder...

One for sf and utopian peoples too. ensfr.univ-angers.fr/2025/04/03/c...

Reminder that it's the first day of Corflu 42 in Newbury, and Joe Siclari from Fanac will be on hand to scan your fanzines and magazines, including Foundation! We'd love to get more copies from the mid-80s to mid-00s up online. corflu.org

This year's Hay Lecturer is Dr Liz Batty. Her talk, 'The Genomics Revolution and Infectious Disease', will be at 3.30 pm BST on 19 April (ReConnect, Eastercon, Belfast).

Cfp for Vector 302. vector-bsfa.com/2025/04/01/i...

We are delighted that Nicola Griffith has been named the SFWA's 41st Grand Master ❤️ nebulas.sfwa.org/41st-grand-m...

F150 is out! To mark the occasion, we have a special section on sf of the 1870s. Check out the ToC here, and if you're yet to become a member of the SFF, click on the membership page. www.sf-foundation.org/sf-foundatio...