ICFA 47 (2026) CfP Extension (deadline Nov. 10th) The deadline for proposals for ICFA 47 has been extended until Monday, November 10th. The conference will take place March 18-21 with Guests of Honor Ted Chiang and Ann Leckie and Guest Scholar Sherryl Vint. #IAFA #ICFA #ICFA47 #FantasticArts

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The Mellon Foundation has announced a call for concepts. Mellon invites institutions of higher education in the United States and its territories to submit applications for research and/or curricular projects focused on either of the following two areas:

All registered IAFA members should have gotten their latest issue of the JFA via email. Just a quick reminder: You have 24 hours to submit your proposal for ICFA 47 before the submission portal closes! See our website for the complete CfP and other needed details (iaftfita.wildapricot.org/ICFA).

After careful consideration of many well-qualified applications the IAFA Executive Board has appointed Michael Furlong as incoming ICFA Gothic and Horror Literature Division Head.

Call for Papers and Sessions Fantasy’s Present Pasts University of Glasgow Tuesday 23rd – Thursday 25th June 2026 Keynote Speakers: Stefan Ekman, Sofia Samatar and Helen Young More details on the conference in the post linked below - deadline for proposals is Friday 12th December.

The Student Caucus of the IAFA invites nominations for Representative and Undergraduate Representative for terms from 15 Jan 2026 to 30 Sept 2027. The complete call for nominations, including details on the positions and nomination process, can be found at iaftfita.wildapricot.org/Blog/13555613

If you have yet to read the IAFA President's letter on the referendum results and the IAFA moving to a rotating location model for future ICFAs, please do so at IAFA.org/Blog/13548208 !

Some ICFA 47 reminders for you: * The ICFA 47 proposal portal closes in two weeks, on 31 October 2025. * Registration for ICFA 47 is open. Early bird rates end on 31 December 2025. We aim to have all proposal acceptance emails and creative invitations sent by late November.

Call for Articles: Hélice (journal) The online academic journal Hélice welcomes articles on speculative fiction in English and Spanish for its 2026 issues. See www.revistahelice.com/en/main/ and www.revistahelice.com/en/previous-...

Nominations for IAFA First Vice-President continue until 10 Oct 2025. For more information on the position and how to nominate a candidate, we encourage you to see the IAFA blog post on this open position. Self-nominations are welcome. #IAFA #FantasticArts #ICFA #VICFA

Issue 777 Table of Contents, October 2025

The submission portal for ICFA 47 is open! Submit your proposal here: iaftfita.wildapricot.org/Proposal The IAFA invites proposals for our 47th annual ICFA meeting on the theme of (Meta)Cognition. Guests of Honor: Ted Chiang & Ann Leckie Guest Scholar: Sherryl Vint #IAFA #FantasticArts #ICFA47

VICFA 4's Distinguished Scholar Immersive Event was incredible! We learned about Haunted Planet's DreaMR series (Meta Quest 3). This included video from a staging of Haunted Planet's "Alice Dalí MR," which uses Dali's artwork for Carroll's 𝘈𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘦'𝘴 𝘈𝘥𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘞𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 (1969 anniversary ed.).

VICFA 4's Roundtable Discussion on "Conjuring in Diverse Literature" was a real treat! Joy Sanchez-Taylor led this discussion with Suzan Palumbo, Zig Zag Claybourne, and A.W. Prihandita, three of the fantasy authors featured in Sanchez-Taylor's new book, 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 F𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴.

So if you're intrigued, get SP&MAR on the cheap .... but even if not, spread the word far and wide. Let's make genre poetry better known! @sfpoetry.bsky.social @iafa.bsky.social @fantastic-journal.bsky.social @sfrareview.bsky.social @strangehorizons.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/us/speculati...

VICFA 4 Distinguished Scholar Mads Haahr took us on an meditative and beautiful journey in his presentation, "Midnight in the Garden of Spirits." #IAFA #VICFA4 #FantasticArts #HauntedPlanet

We hope you will be able to join Sunday's Queer Caucus Exploratory Session, but if you can't make it, your voice can still be represented in our discussion! Log into your IAFA account. go to VICFA 4's Home Base, and then scroll down to the Discussion Forum to be heard, regardless of your schedule!

The IAFA Student Caucus's early morning VICFA4 panel with special guests, invited Creatives, and scholars hosted panelists from five continents! So many perspectives represented from locations across the globe is one of the best things about a virtual conference, as well as an international one.

What a historic night! Prolific South Korean SF author Djuna spoke about their career and South Korean SF. We are so honored! Host Sang-Keun Yoo: "This marks the first time in history that a Korean SF writer has delivered a keynote address at a major international science fiction conference."

Many thanks to Robert T. Tally Jr. for joining us for a special session on A Mismeasure of Orcs: A Critical Reassessment of Tolkien's Demonized Creatures! It was great to hear some of this critical text and have a discussion with its author. #VICFA4 #FantasticArts #IAFA #UnabashedOrcSympathizer

Are you still unsure about virtual conferences? Do you love ICFA but are not certain VICFA is for you? VICFA has a FREE registration option that grants full access to our Counter Space, our virtual main stage, so to speak. It's true! #VICFA4 #FantasticArts #IAFA

“AMPLITUDES: STORIES OF QUEER AND TRANS FUTURITY is an exceptional speculative anthology.” @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social (@QueenOfRats) reviews a new anthology edited by @leemandelo (@leemandelo.bsky.social)

The IAFA requests nominations for IAFA First Vice-President. The IAFA 1st VP is a member of the IAFA Executive Board, is elected by majority vote of the IAFA members who participate in the election, serves a three-year term, and may be re-elected. Please see our blog post for details.

Are you curious what's in store for VICFA 4 and haven't registered for it yet? Not to fret! See our blog for a short schedule with participants' info removed to protect them. The full version will be sent to registered attendees soon, so don't delay; register for VICFA 4! We hope to see you there!

Call for IAFA GaH Division Head Applications The IAFA is accepting applications for the position of Gothic and Horror Literature Division Head. The deadline for applications is 30 Sept., 2025, 11:59 p.m. US Eastern/3:59 a.m. UTC. For full details, please see our blog post on the IAFA website.

Please note that this fundraiser will be held from 7:30-8:30 p.m. on Wed., Sept. 17. Unfortunately, an early draft of the VICFA schedule listed an incorrect time; the official draft has the correct time. You still have time to grab a ticket and have some fun while supporting the BIPOC Caucus!

Want to play a game and support a worthy cause? Join authors C.S.E. Cooney and Carlos Hernandez as they lead an Infernal Creative Salon as a fundraiser for the IAFA BIPOC Caucus. Tickets are only $10! For the full details and IAFA store link, please see the IAFA Blog post linked below.

Call for Proposals – ICFA 47 (𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮)𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 March 18–21, 2026 Marriott Orlando Airport Lakeside | Orlando, FL 𝗚𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗼f 𝗛𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗿: Ted Chiang & Ann Leckie 𝗚𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿: Sherryl Vint The full CfP can be found on our website. Submission deadline: Oct. 31, 2025 #ICFA47 #CallForPapers #FantasticArts

Four exciting updates can be found in the latest post at our blog's new home on the IAFA website! Please remember that you can keep track of all the latest IAFA-related news here, on Facebook, and via our blog. We hope to see you at VICFA 4, and we wish you a great day!

The submission period for Speculative Literature Foundation 2025 Working Class Writers Grant opens Sept. 1, 2025. For more information, please visit our IAFA blog post (linked below) or go to speculativeliterature.org/grants.

Call for Papers: Latinx Visions 2.0 "One Planet--Many Worlds" Online Conference November 3-7, 2025 Please see the linked IAFA blog post for this call for papers and its submission portal link.

Registration for VICFA 4: Embodied Spirits, Sept. 17-21, 2025, is now live! You can register at iaftfita.wildapricot.org/event-6255095. Please let us know if you experience any issues with registration. We hope to see you virtually there!

You have two days left to vote on the future of the ICFA, as well as to submit a proposal for VICFA 4! If you have yet to vote on the referendum and need the link, please email IAFA President David Higgins ([email protected]). The referendum's full text is on our blog (linked).

Reminder: We would love to see you join us at this year's Virtual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (VICFA 4): Embodied Spirits! The deadline to submit paper proposals, panel proposals, and creative proposals is June 30, 2025. Please visit our VICFA page for more details.

THIS IS OUR LAST PUSH! We have 1 day to reach our fundraising goal & we have a ways to go!! Be the reason that the Locus lights stay on! Help us out at igg.me/at/locusmag2025. We are so grateful for your support! Fundraiser link in bio #sff #scifi #fantasy #booksky

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If any of my author/scholar friends know someone who would love to speak about the Ryan Coogler film Sinners at @iafa.bsky.social's virtual conference in Sept. 2025, please have them reach out. I an especially interested people with expertise in Black ancestral spirits or Black healer-figures.

A Message From the IAFA President: The IAFA recently sent out a referendum email to everyone in our database asking for you to weigh in on our decision to remain in Florida for our annual conference or to explore the possibility of moving elsewhere. The referendum text is on our blog (linked).

I'm reading some amazing work for the @iafa.bsky.social Crawford Award. The award is still taking submissions; if you are publishing your first fantasy work this year, send it in and give me more summer reading! iaftfita.wildapricot.org/Crawford-awa...

The Virtual Conference of the Fantastic in the Arts (VICFA) 4 call for proposals is out. We hope to see you there virtually! Read the VICFA 4 CfP here: