In “The Cultural Work of Fantasy in the Anthropocene" Marek Oziewicz celebrates the potential of fantasy to provide new models & patterns of thinking to counter the ecocidal status quo and underlines the genre's importance in educating citizens. Read for free here: fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...

🎉✨ NEW ISSUE OUT!! 🎉✨ ☀️ Fafnir's issue 1/2025 welcomes midsummer with a blazing selection of cutting-edge speculative fiction research, essays, book reviews, and a prefatory by Marek Oziewicz. Check out the full issue for free here!: fafnir.journal.fi Happy reading!

Many thanks to the Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies (OSL) for supporting our symposium with a grant and for including it in their 2025-2026 Academic Programme!

Join the orca uprising and come to Utrecht!! easlce2026.sites.uu.nl

I've created a starter pack for those who are interested in following the accounts of Arab authors and scholars working on Arabic literature. Please share and let me know if you would like to be on the list. go.bsky.app/To2zEEL

@mugeozoglu.bsky.social and I've been envisioning this network for a long time & we're thrilled to announce its launch! We are now inviting abstract submissions for our inaugural symposium: Literature, Care, and the Ethics of Living in SWANA (10 April 2026). Visit our website to check the CfP.

@mugeozoglu.bsky.social and I've been envisioning this network for a long time & we're thrilled to announce its launch! We are now inviting abstract submissions for our inaugural symposium: Literature, Care, and the Ethics of Living in SWANA (10 April 2026). Visit our website to check the CfP.

🛸𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰🛸 My review of Jörg Matthias Determann's @determann.bsky.social Islam, Science Fiction, and Extraterrestrial Life @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social is now out in the International Journal of Middle East Studies (by Cambridge University Press)! Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S002...

For a system rooted in freedom, justice & equality—free from exploitation and nepotism. Where we are rewarded fairly for our labor, without facing precarity or threats to our well-being. For solidarity and fulfilment instead of competition and profit. Happy Labor and Solidarity Day!

🛸𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰🛸 My review of Jörg Matthias Determann's @determann.bsky.social Islam, Science Fiction, and Extraterrestrial Life @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social is now out in the International Journal of Middle East Studies (by Cambridge University Press)! Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S002...

New publication! press.syr.edu/supressbooks... There will be a book launch at the Orient-Institut in Istanbul on May 8: oiist.org/en/event/the...

On May 18th, join Maya Salameh for her 3rd workshop, "On the Memory of Water" ❤️ We'll explore the profound connections between water, memory, and resistance from the perspectives of poets Ariana Benson, Banah el Ghadbanah, Camonghne Felix, and Nizar Qabbani. www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/on-...

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

Bilimkurgu Kulübünden çok güzel bir çalışma. Okuru bol olsun!

Ayşegül Yalvaç ile konuk olduğumuz ve iklim kurgu, ekoloji ve bilimkurgu arasındaki ilişki gibi konular üzerine konuştuğumuz Omelas programının kaydına şuradan erişebilirsiniz: apacikradyo.com.tr/podcast/248807 Spotify kullananlar için: open.spotify.com/episode/3rcA...

📣 CfP: Fafnir invites authors to submit papers for issue 2/2025! Research into any aspect of science fiction, fantasy, and other speculative genres is welcome. Deadline: 30 June 2025 Submissions should be made through the online portal: fafnir.journal.fi/about/submis... #sciencefiction #SFF

Sevgili Jülide Kayaş ve İsmail Yamanol'un hazırlayıp sunduğu Omelas bilimkurgu podcast'ine Ayşegül Yalvaç ile birlikte konuk olduk. Ekoloji ve bilimkurgu arasındaki ilişkiyi konuştuk. Bugün yayında!🌳

📢 Fafnir's new issue (1-2/2024) is here to kick off the year with an exciting collection of content!! You can access it for free here: fafnir.journal.fi/issue/view/1... Here’s to a year filled with inspiring reads! Happy New Year and happy reading from all of us at Fafnir!

Congratulations to Katharine Halls and @ahmednaji.bsky.social !!

📣 Call for Reviews: Non-Fiction Books 📣 If a book interests you, contact our reviews editor, Jari Käkelä, via email: reviews[at]finfar.org. If you haven’t worked with Jari before, please include a brief introduction of your qualifications and explain why you’d like to review the book.

The question of imagination is all the more relevant in the face of the organized attack and funding-cuts our humanities departments are facing. We're being told imagination matters as long as it yields profit. But imagining the future is a right and a responsibility. Imagination must be defended!

Hi everyone! Here is a little introduction to our journal. Fafnir is a peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal published online twice a year. We publish texts ranging from peer-reviewed research articles to short overviews and book reviews in the field of science fiction and fantasy research.

You can send us your article any time, but if you'd like it to be considered for our next issue (1/2025), the deadline is December 31! #sciencefiction #scifi #fantasy

The publishing industry in Lebanon is one of the most sophisticated in the Middle East. Although it has been incredibly difficult for #publishers in the past 5 years, it was far worse over the past two months during incessant bombing by Israel: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

You can send us your article any time, but if you'd like it to be considered for our next issue (1/2025), the deadline is December 31! #sciencefiction #scifi #fantasy

Please share! Five fully funded PhD positions now available at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS), University of Oslo! Application deadline: February 24.

Check out my latest project, coming in 2026: The Apocryphal, an anthology of Palestinian dark fantasy and horror fiction from Roseway. www.indiegogo.com/projects/the...

For the 2025 reading list!

Read Palestine Week 2024 is over, but find a list of books that are still free at the P4P website, then visit their "take action now" page for suggestions on what more you can do. publishersforpalestine.org/take-action-...

Proofs are in! It’s a pleasure to publish an article on Aslı Erdoğan, an award-winning, exiled Turkish author still little known in the US. I can’t think of a better home for this essay than Comparative Literature Studies. #newpub #globalSouth

2024 IPA Prix Voltaire Goes to Gaza-based Publisher Samir Mansour arablit.org/2024/12/04/2...

If you haven't checked Publishers for Palestine's free fiction & nonfiction ebook offerings for #readpalestineweek, this is the last day to do so!

Join us on Friday at 11am!

I'm continuing to update this stater pack which has now over 70 names listed. Please share and let me know if you would like to be on the list/have any suggestions. 📚

Applications close this Friday!

Literary theory and criticism people, this may be of interest to you!

#readpalestineweek starts today! Here are some of my recommendations if you would like to explore Palestinian speculative fiction. I've just received my long-awaited copy of Thyme Travellers, edited by @soniasulaiman.bsky.social and can't wait to dive into it this week! What will you be reading?

FIRE-READY by Jane Rogers is OUT NOW!🔥 From bushfires & eco-protests to space travel & VR addiction, Jane Rogers' new Cli-Fi collection shines a light on our planet's health & the prospects for its greediest tenants. AVAILABLE NOW👇 📘 commapress.co.uk/books/fire-r...

ORPHAN PLANET is a story of human connection & the lengths we'll go to preserve that. Pre-order if you want to read a story with: 🪐 a planet with dramatically changing seasons 🤖 an AI companion 🕵‍♀️ a bit of mystery 🗳 messy politics 🤯 messier emotions Release date in Feb!

A little #ecocriticism / #envlit (/ #envhum) starter pack - all names, suggestions, feeds welcome! 📚🌿🪲 go.bsky.app/E9pwdD

Liam Knight and I have a podcast! It's called "Utopian and Dystopian Fictions" and features interviews with some fantastic scholars. In the first episode we interview Raffaella Baccolini! More to follow. open.spotify.com/show/2HWH9BA...

Gaza artists announce launch of the Gaza Biennale – "a collective event, a growing network, and perhaps a movement." gazabiennale.org

MIZNA 25.1: CATASTROPHE HAS ARRIVED! This issue is gorgeous and breathtaking beyond words. I hope you'll hold these words of our community, who have gathered here despite an impossible time for so many of us 🍉🇵🇸 mizna.org/product/mizn...

This publication, for READ PALESTINE WEEK (Nov 29 - December 5) is now available in digital format, free, at our Gumroad storefront: arablit.gumroad.com

Here’s a starter pack for those engaged in literary theory and criticism. Don’t hesitate to reach out if you’d like to be included! go.bsky.app/FwHzUwR

Stumbled upon this beautiful anthology yesterday and immediately got it. It's edited by @jordanelgrably.bsky.social and published by @citylightsbooks.bsky.social in 2024. It contains 25 stories selected from the Markaz Review.

Here's the collection for all issues of the Paranormal Palestine Zine. Feel free to share it: itch.io/c/5054176/pa...