Daily Scan for 07.02.09 - Leias to Descend on Comic Con; Jackson Downplays Iron 2's Fury
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... • The magazine Fantasy & Science Fiction is concerned about the lack of new talent appearing in its pages, so it will be sponsoring a writing workshop and running three stories that come out of it every year. ...
New Initiatives at F&SF
When You Stop Believing in It, It Doesn't Go Away —
... For the record, I think Gordon has taken a lot of undeserved heat about the number of new writers breaking into the magazine. (I would say that, though; my first sale, "Rossetti Song," was to F&SF;, in 2000.) Even so, this workshop initiative might pay some interesting dividends. There's been some controversy over the fact that the workshop will charge to join, but do people think that everyone at the magazine (plus Gardner) is just going to donate time to run the whole thing? ...
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