Capclave

Congratulations to frequent Capclave program participant Sean Wallace on being named a 2011 World Fantasy Awards judge.

http://tinyurl.com/4ayyhe5

This week’s Functional Nerds podcast features an interview with 2009 GOH Harry Turtledove

http://functionalnerds.com/2011/02/episode-046-harry-turtledove/

Congratulations to Capclave 2010 Guest of Honor Connie Willis on Blackout/All Clear being named a finalist for the best novel Nebula Award.

http://www.sfwa.org/2011/02/2010-nebula-nominees/

Capclave will have a fan table at Boskone this weekend. so if you have not yet bought your membership, stop by our fan table, pet a dodo and buy your Capclave membership before the rates go up.

Capclave congratulates Guest of Honor Catherynne Valente on her novel, Habitation of the Blessed, and her short stories, How to Become a Mars Overlord and Thirteen Ways of Looking at Spacetime, being listed on the Locus Magazine 2010 Recommended Reading List.

http://www.locusmag.com/Magazine/2011/Issue02_RecommendedReading.html

Capclave congratulates Guest of Honor Carrie Vaughn on her short story Amarylis being listed on the Locus Magazine 2010 Recommended Reading List.

http://www.locusmag.com/Magazine/2011/Issue02_RecommendedReading.html

Mythpunk: An Interview with Catherynne M. Valente By JoSelle Vanderhooft

Since its coining in 2006 by author Catherynne M. Valente, the term “mythpunk” has been used among an ever-growing number of fantasy readers to describe speculative fiction and poetry that melds elements of myths, folk tales, and fairy tales with postmodern literary techniques and, quite often, feminist and multicultural perspectives. In this first of our four part series about mythpunk literature’s history and future, Strange Horizons sat down with Valente to discuss what inspired her to call this movement mythpunk, her favorite mythpunk authors, and mythpunk’s relationship to the works of J. R. R. Tolkien.

Read the full interview on Strange Horizon’s website.

We will be at Philcon this weekend (Nov. 19-21), so stop by the Capclave fan table and buy a 2011 membership if you have not already done so. Guests of Honor for 2011 are Catherynne Valente and Carrie Vaughn. Memberships currently are only $40.

We will also be selling copies of the Jeff Vandermeer and Connie Willis books that debuted at Capclave in October, as well as copies of the turtledove book from 2009 and Future Washington.

Catherynne Valente does a reading on Wold Newton Reading Extravaganza from her newest book on November 21st 2010 at 6:30pm!

The Habitation of the Blessed Launch Party with Catherynne Valente and featuring medieval multimedia, burlesque belly-dancing, and musical madness! Catherynne M. Valente will read from her newest novel, a journey into the medieval myth of Prester John. Brian Francis Slattery and the West Constantinople Squeezebox All-Stars return to the Wold to provide the soundtrack while Jezebel Wood, Mary Cyn, and Katie Lennon will perform belly dancing and burlesque.

Last night at Capclave’s Award Ceremony, the winner of the WSFA Small Press Award for 2010 (for works published in 2009) was announced.

And the winner is:
“Siren Beat” by Tansy Rayner Roberts, published in Twelfth Planet, edited by Alisa Krasnostein (October 2009)

Alisa Krasnostein accepted the award for Tansy Rayner Roberts.

Also present at the ceremony were:
Kevin Lauderdale, author of “James and the Dark Grimoire” published in Cthulhu Unbound, and Scott H. Andrews, editor of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, which published “The Pirate Captain’s Daughter” by Yoon Ha Lee.

All of the stories were excellent works. Congratulations to Tansy Rayner Roberts for her story and to Alisa Krasnostein for publishing it.