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RavenCon of Richmond, VA is this weekend. It's an awesome, fan run SFF convention with an emphasis on science & writing. Here's what I'll be doing there: https://thescribblinglion.com/ravencon-2025-is-this-weekend/
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Who's ready for some creepy dolls? Writing the Occult: The Uncanny is just 4 days away! Tickets are still available until midnight on Friday for £40+bf.

🔎Details: writingtheoccult.carrd.co
🎫Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-the-occult-the-uncanny-tickets-1119630497959

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Shelves are full of creepy-looking dolls of all shapes and sizes

Have you grabbed your ticket to the world of writing the uncanny yet? Get in quick - price rising soon ahead of the countdown to the big event on Saturday 18 January 2025. See you there, dear reader?

🔎 Details: http://writingtheoccult.carrd.co
🎫 Tix: https://eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-the-occult-the-uncanny-tickets-1119630497959

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The background is a black & white image of a person standing in an empty street, centre screen, wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, a fedora hat, and a trench coat. On top of this is laid the following text:
Writing the Occult: The Uncanny
Ticket price rises at midnight on Saturday!
Currently £35+booking fee
From Sunday: £40+booking fee
Writing the Occult: The Uncanny is a virtual event for readers and writers. It happens 18 January 2025. Details at writingtheoccult.carrd.co

Legendary Wiccan Doreen Valiente believes the uncanny was "one of the most important secrets of magic". What say you, dear reader?

It’s time for Writing the Occult to tackle the uncanny.
🔎 Details: writingtheoccult.carrd.co
🎫 Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-the-occult-the-uncanny-tickets-1119630497959

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On a grey background akin to a moving vinyl record lies the text:
"The generation of atmosphere, the aura of the uncanny, is one of the most important secrets of magic. It contributes to the willing suspension of disbelief, the feeling that, within the circle, or in the presence of the magical shrine, anything may happen."
The quote is attributed to Doreen Valiente

In a red band at the bottom of the graphic lies the text:
Writing the Occult: The Uncanny is a virtual event for writers and readers. It happens 18 January 2025. Details at writingtheoccult.carrd.co

We're blessed to have such talented folks joining us for Writing the Occult: The Uncanny - people like @lizabeth Dearnley, who's latest Tales of the Weird collection for the British Library is all about uncanny playthings.

We gather on 18 January. Tickets are now available for the early bird price of £35+bf. Full speaker details at writingtheoccult.carrd.co - or go straight to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-the-occult-the-uncanny-tickets-1119630497959

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I asked Professor Robert Edgar for his recommendations to get us in that hauntological mood ahead of Saturday's Writing the Occult - and he added Edward Parnell's Ghostland and Adam Scovell's work for the BFI for evoking a feeling of nostalgia.

Grab your ticket: writingtheoccult.carrd.co

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All those dreams we once had - what happens to them? Writes Enis Yucekoralp: "We are haunted by the ghosts of these lost futures."

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Join us for Writing the Occult: Hauntology THIS SATURDAY where we’ll spend the day looking at haunted spaces, haunted ideas, haunted emotions. Tickets now on sale for £40+bf. Head to writingtheoccult.carrd.co for full details, or go straight to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-the-occult-hauntology-tickets-1065892807079 to grab your ticket.

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The image shows a darkened misty corridor of a hospital. It's taken from the floor and looks up and along towards a light at the end. On it is a quote from Enis Yucekoralp: "We are haunted by the ghosts of these lost futures."

Finally, on Thursday 7 November we'll head to Waterstones Covent Garden for an evening of folklore fantasy at with Alex Beaumont, AY Chao, Lucy Holland, & Anna Smith Spark. Tickets for this one are via the book store: https://www.waterstones.com/events/folklore-fantasy-alexandra-beaumont-a-y-chao-lucy-holland-and-anna-smith-spark-in-conversation/london-covent-garden

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Saturday 22 September: Imaginarium: Celebrating East and South East Asian Speculative Fiction - a HUGE day of talks & panels from across the SFFH spectrum, in partnership with Lian Connect. Discover why some of the world's best is coming out of Asia.

https://britishfantasysociety.org/events-calendar/lian-connect-and-bfs-online-presents-imaginarium/

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There's SO MUCH going on at your British Fantasy Society in the coming weeks. Don't forget members get discounts on many of our events! What will we see you at?

Full details and tickets available via our website: https://britishfantasysociety.org/events-2/events-calendar/

Or keep scrolling the 🧵for more...

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More pre-Fantasycon fun times: I also had the honour of chatting with the very lovely Priya Sharma about being a Guest of Honour. If you're a fan of the dark and short stuff, you've no doubt read Priya's work.

(Once the cameras stopped rolling, we put the world to rights as well. Sorry it turned into a bit of a therapy session, Priya! 😂)

https://youtu.be/UOTU8VghDxM?si=lxendlkzt3GJ8mf6

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Ahead of Imaginarium: A Celebration of ESEA Speculative Fiction—happening virtually on 22 September, supported by the BFS—Eric Huang takes a look at the growing interest in SFFH from the region, and how the non-Western hero has become serious Hollywood business.

https://britishfantasysociety.org/whats-behind-the-rise-in-east-south-east-asian-speculative-fiction/

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Less than 2 weeks until I chat with Kit Whitfield, James Logan and Peter McLean in the hallowed halls of Waterstones Covent Garden, on behalf of Arcadia Books and the British Fantasy Society. Join us to geek out about fantasy & writing. Tix from £7 ⬇️

https://britishfantasysociety.org/chat-with-james-logan-kit-whitfield-amp-peter-mclean-in-covent-garden/

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We are blessed to have so many talented humans taking part in Writing the Occult: Connection to Land—including Kerry Hadley-Pryce, acclaimed Black Country writer whose writing is infused with the essence of this very particular part of England. If you want to know how the spirit of place can impact fiction, check out Kerry's three books out via @saltpublishing

Join us? Full details at writingtheoccult.carrd.co

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Join Ally, Tiffany, and a load of others from all over the world at Writing the Occult: Connection to Land on 15 June. This is an event for writers, for readers, and for anyone interested in the environment, the land, and our human relationships to the world around us. 🧵⬇️

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Writing the Occult: Connection to Land happens online on 15 June. It's a long day, but we record the whole event for ticket holders to watch back whenever they like. Early bird tix are just £35+bf!

Hit writingtheoccult.carrd.co for full event details.

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Penny Billington has a significant role in the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids as author, speaker, ceremony and workshop leader, and has edited their magazine for 20 years. Her focus always is on Druidic connection, natural magic and joy in the moment.

Full event details at writingtheoccult.carrd.co, or go straight to grab your ticket for £35+bf at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-the-occult-connection-to-land-tickets-906670705487 - we record the whole thing for ticket holders *only*!

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This occult writing conference looks really interesting!!!! I wish I could go to the UK in person. I might just subscribe for the recordings.

https://writingtheoccult.carrd.co/

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I really wanted to include climate fiction at Writing the Occult: Connections to Land, & am so happy Lindz McLeod put her hand up to join us. She'll join our climate fiction panel to share how she creates her urgent, literary, speculative works. More Scottish representation!🧵⬇️

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Here's another Writing the Occult speaker who'll show land can be plenty inspirational even if it's not green and pleasant: it's Black Country writer Kerry Hadley-Price. What does the industrial heartland bring to writing about land connections?
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