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September Events 08/15/2010 02:59 PM
TCG Player Championship Series Qualifier (Sept 4th, 1:00PM)
This is a Standard tournament being run at Pandemonium by Rob Dougherty. Entry fee is $25, first place prize is $300. Registration starts at noon and the event begins at 1 PM.
Participants also earn qualification points for the championships in Chicago based on where they place. Details are on the TCGPlayer site, here: http://magic.tcgplayer.com/TCGplayer_Championship_Series/
Strange Horizons (Sept 18th, 2-3:30PM)
Celebrate the tenth anniversary of the online speculative fiction
magazine Strange Horizons (http://www.strangehorizons.com) as local authors
read from works of theirs that have been published by the magazine.
Authors scheduled to appear include Mary Alexandra Agner, Angela
Ambroz, Francesca Forrest, Theodora Goss, Elizabeth Lee, Jennifer
Pelland, Margaret Ronald, Vandana Singh, Sonya Taaffe, and Connie
Wilkins.
Mary Alexandra Agner writes of dead women, telescopes, and secrets.
She was born in a United State made for lovers and currently lives outside Boston. Her family tree bears Parson Brown oranges. Her advanced degrees include Earth and planetary science, and creative writing; she's blessed to have a paying job that utilizes both of them. All her life she's observed the universe and written about it.
She can be found online at http://www.pantoum.org/.
Angela Ambroz is totally into post-colonial, edgy science fiction that mixes languages, religions and fashions, and uses a lot of bad words. She is also into: ukeleles, food, financial markets, feminism, Hindi, her new sneakers, US history, and sticking it to the man. Saul Tigh is her BFF (in her dreams!). She is also an economist by day, and a First Reader for Strange Horizons by evening/breakfast.
Francesca Forrest lives in the borderlands between here and elsewhere and records her observations in both prose and poetry. She married an adventurer and has had children on three continents. Wherever she goes, she looks for woods. She thinks the sky is an ocean. For more about her and her work, see her journal at http://asakiyume.livejournal.com/.
Theodora Goss is a Hungarian American writer of fantasy short stories. Her stories have been nominated for major awards: "Pip and the Fairies" for the Nebula Award in 2007, and "The Wings of Meister Wilhelm" was nominated for the 2005 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in English while also teaching full-time at Boston University. She resides in Boston with her husband, Kendrick, and daughter, Ophelia.
Elizabeth Lee has a dangerous addiction to catalogs—intervention may be required. She lives outside of New York City, collaging words together at a snail’s pace. Her poems have appeared in The Harrow, Illumen, and Aoife’s Kiss. Forthcoming work will appear this Fall in Paper Crow and Goblin Fruit.
Jennifer Pelland is a Waltham-based writer of dark science fiction and fantasy. Her work has been nominated for the Nebula and Gaylactic Spectrum awards. In her spare time, when not writing (or procrastinating on her writing), she does voice work in The Fantastic Fate of Frederick Farnsworth the Fifth, a local radio play. In between all the short stories, Jennifer is also working on her first novel. For more about her, see her website at http://www.jenniferpelland.com/.
Margaret Ronald lives outside Boston, works in the city, and has neither free time nor bookshelf space. Originally from small-town Indiana, she moved east to attend college and then, due to a combination of inertia and curiosity, moved to Boston. Since then, she’s worked as a Harvard secretary, as a layout tech for several weekly newspapers, and now for a Large Faceless Financial Entity. In 2004 she attended the Viable Paradise workshop on Martha’s Vineyard, and in 2005 her first short story, “Christmas Apples” came out in Realms of Fantasy. Since then, her work has appeared in a number of other venues in print and online.
Vandana Singh's recent short fiction includes work in Clockwork Phoenix and Year's Best SF 14, as well as a novella, Distances (Aqueduct Press). Her first short story collection, The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet and Other Stories, was published in India by Zubaan/Penguin in fall 2008. Her novella Distances is on the 2009 Tiptree Award Honor List. For more about her and her work, see her website at http://users.rcn.com/singhvan/.
Sonya Taaffe has a confirmed addiction to myth, folklore, and dead languages. Her works have won the Rhysling Award and been reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. She holds master's degrees in Classics from Brandeis and Yale and once named a Kuiper belt object. Her journal may be found at http://sovay.livejournal.com/.
Connie Wilkins (who often uses the pseudonym Sachi Green) is primarily an author of lesbian themed science fiction and fantasy erotica published under the title Wild Flesh. She lives in the 5-college area of western Massachusetts. Her stories have appeared in a publications as varied as two of Bruce Coville's children's books, the anthologies Such a Pretty Face: Tales of Power and Abundance and Embraces: Dark Erotica
The readings will occur from 2 to 3 PM. See you there!