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February 18, 2005
Publishing Opportunities at ICFA26
58. Publishing Opportunities (Friday 2:45 Intrepid)
Robin Anne Reid
Although listed under the SF Programming Track, this session will be of interest to those who work with ANY genre or medium of the fantastic, focusing on women writers and artists or on gender.
This session is intended as a working/brainstorming session for those interested in contributing to Greenwood Press' Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy: An Encyclopedia. I signed the contract to edit the Encyclopedia in January 2005. Official calls for contributors will be going out with more specific information in a few months, but this session is your chance to get involved early. If you cannot make the session, feel free to grab me at the conference and give me your contact information!
PROJECT INFORMATION: Greenwood has specified a multi-genre and multi-media focus for the project which will produce the first general reference work focusing on women's contributions to science fiction and fantasy in fiction, nonfiction, film, television, art, comics, graphic novels, and music. The two-volume work will be 350,000 words long. Volume 1 (approx 175,000 words) will be a collection of thematic essays. Volume 2 (175,000 words) will be the A-to-Z component. Along with the primary focus on the women writers and artists, the Encyclopedia will also include entries on how the topics of "women" and "gender" have been dealt with by major male writers and artists in science fiction and fantasy. The focus is primarily but not exclusively on work in English from the 19th century to the present, covering fiction, nonfiction, film, television, art, comics, graphics novels and music. Background entries will draw on existing international scholarship on feminism, women writers and fantastic genres to cover major writers in other languages and national traditions. Background entries will also address fantasy by and about women from the Middle Ages through the 1800's.
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