On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, Sean Johnston wrote:
Nalo says:
> >Officer for Toronto Arts Council. Am also a judge for next
year's > >Tiptree Awards.
Sean responds:
> Nalo,
> An SF judge? Good gig. How d'ya swing it?
NH: Volunteer gig, let me hasten to point out. Though I do get books I
wouldn't otherwise have been able to afford. I am a graduate of Clarion
'95. Both Pat Murphy and Karen Joy Fowler (founding mothers of the
Tiptree Award) were writers-in-residence that year. We kept in touch
after Clarion, so I guess they have a sense of what/how I read, the fact
that I'm a feminist. Don't know if the fact that I facilitate literary
juries as part of my day job was part of their decision. They asked me to
be a Tiptree judge this year, said they thought I'd be good at it. I'm
not sure, but I think I'm the neophyte on the team, with the fewest
publication credits. Other jurors are Elizabeth Hand, Terry Garey, James
Patrick Kelly and J. A. Kaufman. And as I've said before on this list,
I'd really appreciate being pointed in the direction of any 1996 or 1997
speculative fiction, long or short, which "explores or expands our
notions of gender and gender roles."
-nalo
"Straight she's fantastical, they all do cry."
-Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle,
"Nature's Pictures," 1656
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