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ICFA 26 - Pics!
Steve Hooley has uploaded photos to his website.
Contact Steve if he's gotten any names wrong or anything like that.
Posted by ChrissieMains at 10:36 PM | Comments (0)
ICFA 26 - Crawford Award
The IAFA Crawford Award (which is what it says on the plaque) each year recognizes an outstanding new fantasy writer. It is not specifically a first novel award, and in the past authors who had developed notable reputations as fantasy authors prior to their first novel were deemed ineligible under the terms of the award. On the other hand, the award has on occasion gone to writers who had previously published nonfantasy works, but became "new" fantasy writers by virtue of a particular work or set of works (Nancy Willard is an example).
The award was established with the support of the late Andre Norton, who also helped establish the criteria and who continued to support the award over the years.
This year's winner is Steph Swainston, whose The Year of Our War was originally published by Gollancz in 2004 and was reprinted by Eos in February of this year.
Posted by ChrissieMains at 10:32 PM | Comments (0)
A Change in Division Heads
On behalf of the membership of IAFA, the executive board would like to thank Mary Harris Russell for her hard work as Division Head for The Fantastic in Children's & Young Adult Literature and Art over the past year. Mary will be stepping down from the position this year, although she will still be available to advise her replacement, Joe Sutliff Sanders, former Student Caucus Representative.
All other Division Heads will be continuing in their positions this year, although SF Division Head Robin Reid will be stepping aside next year. To that end, she will be assisted this year by Sherryl Vint, who will take over the job following next year's conference.
Posted by ChrissieMains at 10:23 PM | Comments (0)
Sad News
Some sad news around conference time this year: At the Thursday Guest of Honor luncheon, Don Morse announced the passing of author Andre Norton at the age of 93. The author was a supporter of the conference, helping to establish the Crawford Award to recognize outstanding new fantasy writers; I found it especially poignant that the last session I attended at the conference included a paper on her work. Also, shortly after the conference, we learned that longtime IAFA member Bud Foote had died on March 12. Our condolences to their family and friends.
Posted by ChrissieMains at 10:22 PM | Comments (0)