Poetry on Drugs: Language, Dreaming and the Coming Revolution

Call for Proposals

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All registered IAFA members should have gotten their latest issue of the JFA via email.

Just a quick reminder: You have 24 hours to submit your proposal for ICFA 47 before the submission portal closes!

See our website for the complete CfP and other needed details (iaftfita.wildapricot.org/ICFA).

After careful consideration of many well-qualified applications the IAFA Executive Board has appointed Michael Furlong as incoming ICFA Gothic and Horror Literature Division Head.

If you have yet to read the IAFA President's letter on the referendum results and the IAFA moving to a rotating location model for future ICFAs, please do so at IAFA.org/Blog/13548208 !

Thank you to VICFA 4 Distinguished Scholar Mads Haahr and his Haunted Planet Studios team (not present except in their work) for a truly different conference experience!

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VICFA 4's Distinguished Scholar Immersive Event was incredible! We learned about Haunted Planet's DreaMR series (Meta Quest 3). This included video from a staging of Haunted Planet's "Alice Dalí MR," which uses Dali's artwork for Carroll's 𝘈𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘦'𝘴 𝘈𝘥𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘞𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 (1969 anniversary ed.).

VICFA 4's Roundtable Discussion on "Conjuring in Diverse Literature" was a real treat! Joy Sanchez-Taylor led this discussion with Suzan Palumbo, Zig Zag Claybourne, and A.W. Prihandita, three of the fantasy authors featured in Sanchez-Taylor's new book, 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 F𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴.

This wide-ranging exploration of "What is an embodied spirit?" intersected with so many schools of thought and metaphysical questions that some are still absorbing it.

Many thanks to Mads Haahr and panel host Regina Hansen for a fantastic discussion following this foray into embodied spirits.

VICFA 4 Distinguished Scholar Mads Haahr took us on an meditative and beautiful journey in his presentation, "Midnight in the Garden of Spirits."
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The IAFA Student Caucus's early morning VICFA4 panel with special guests, invited Creatives, and scholars hosted panelists from five continents! So many perspectives represented from locations across the globe is one of the best things about a virtual conference, as well as an international one.

What a historic night! Prolific South Korean SF author Djuna spoke about their career and South Korean SF. We are so honored!

Host Sang-Keun Yoo: "This marks the first time in history that a Korean SF writer has delivered a keynote address at a major international science fiction conference."

Many thanks to Robert T. Tally Jr. for joining us for a special session on A Mismeasure of Orcs: A Critical Reassessment of Tolkien's Demonized Creatures! It was great to hear some of this critical text and have a discussion with its author.
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Are you curious what's in store for VICFA 4 and haven't registered for it yet? Not to fret!
See our blog for a short schedule with participants' info removed to protect them. The full version will be sent to registered attendees soon, so don't delay; register for VICFA 4! We hope to see you there!