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A useful list: http://cielrouge.tumblr.com/post/72745021204/fiction-reads-featuring-asian-and-asian-american.

Thanks to Angry Girl Comics for the heads up.

The Alpha Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Workshop for Young Writers (ages 14 - 19) will be held at the University of Pittsburgh’s Greensburg Campus on July 25 - August 3, 2014. Students from all over the world will get to spend ten days working with professional authors, Tobias S. Buckell, Bruce Coville, Tamora Pierce, and Rachel Swirsky ( Read more... )

When my kids were small, they were big Arthur fans--one of their must-see shows on PBS. As they grew, they discovered Neil Gaiman's work in picture books, children books, comic books, and eventually adult novels--and became big Gaiman fans. It tickled me to learn that Neil Gaiman was recently featured in an Arthur episode, which discusses writing ( Read more... )

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Thank you to Mary Robinette Kowal and Yes, You're A Racist who led me to the video.

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This weekend I listened to a fascinating piece on NPR about women in cinema. Essentially, although women are half the movie-goers in the U.S., they have only 17% of the onscreen roles-including crowd scenes. Off screen isn’t much better: women represent 7 percent of directors, 13 percent of writers, and 20 percent of producers ( Read more... )

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