May 16, 2008 1:30 PM GMT
Welcome
to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Co-operative
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IMAGINARIES
Imaginaries, formerly the mouthful "The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers' Co-operative", is a global writers' co-operative for science fiction, fantasy, horror, and whatever else happens to slip through the cracks; we work together to improve each-other's writing by sharing works, ideas, news, and criticism. Membership is open to anyone interested in participating in this process. To learn more, see the FAQ, or just poke around for a bit.
MOST RECENT CRUCIBLE ENTRIES
| Ben Cuil (Mountain of Blood) (by Scatha) | |||
| Fantasy | PG-13 | 3591 words | 10-May-08 |
| Fallen Moon Prologue (by Emerald) | |||
| Fantasy | PG | 3240 words | 24-Apr-08 |
RECENT CHALLENGES (must be a member)
| Woods micro-challenge | |
| 500 words somehow related to "woods" | |
| Fire micro-challenge | |
| 400 words on "Fire" | |
| Tales of Fantasy from the East | |
| Topic (in brief) is tales that are heavily influenced by Chinese, Korean, or Japanese folklore and history. Word count is 3000-9000 words. Submission Guidelines Short Fantasy Fiction for inclusion in Paper Blossoms, Sharpened Steel: Tales of Fantasy from the Far East Guidelines The anthology will feature roughly twenty-five short stories between 3,000 and 9,000 words. We are looking for stories of fantasy in East Asian-based settings. We want tales that are heavily influenced by Chinese, Korean, or Japanese folklore and history. We are not looking for stories set in the modern day. The mid-to-late 1800's is as late as you should venture. Submissions need not be set in our world, but can be set in created worlds that are influenced by the cultures listed above. Examples of books and movies with similar themes include (but are not limited to): Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn (novel), Shaman Warrior by Park Joong-Ki (Korean manwha), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (movie, the fourth book in the Crane-Iron Pentalogy by Wang Dulu, and a graphic novel series), the Chinese legend of Hua Mu Lan, the Tomoe Gozen trilogy by Jessica Amanda Salmonson, and Kwaidan by Jung and Jee-Yun (graphic novel). No electronic submissions. Please include a SASE for reply. Multiple Submissions will be accepted, but please limit them to two. Submission Period: May 15, 2007 to December 15, 2007 Reading Period: December 15, 2007 to January 15, 2008 Responses will be mailed by January 31, 2008 Rights: 1st World Publication Rights in the English Language Pay: 5 cents per word upon acceptance of final draft, as an advance on pro rata (based on final page-count) share of 35% of net revenue Send questions to pbss@fantasistent.com. Mail your story to Fantasist Enterprises PBSS Anthology PO Box 9381 Wilmington, DE 19809 USA | |
RECENT POLLS (must be a member)
| 4th Quarter Challenge Theme | |
| Arrange your favorite Challenge themes in the spaces below for the 4th quarter of 2006. | |
| 3rd Quarter Challenge 2006 | |
| Vote for your favorite theme for the 3rd Quarter Challenge for 2006. Get your votes in by the end of Sunday, August 13. Let's make the story up to 5,000 words and have it due by Sept. 31, 2006 | |
| Challenge Poll 2006.1 | |
| Pickachallenge. | |
NEWS
Current and not-so-current happenings
- August 16, 2006
In an effort to show that this place is fairly active, despite the static homepage... I made the homepage less static. Now you'll hardly notice the news happenings because of the "most recent crucible entries", "recent polls", and "recent challenges" above it.
Also I added some quicklinks and explanation from the crucible page, AND and AND added an atom feed for the crucible so folks can see what stuff comes in!
- Feb 19, 2006 to
Mar 1, 2006MAR 8, 2006STILL OPEN! 2005 RSA Voting -- DEADLINE EXTENDED INDEFINITELY
Send your votes to allanmcdonald [AT] mac [DOT] com in the form of:
- Top three crucible entries
- Top three challenge entries
In both cases include the story and the author. It would help when sending to put "RSA Awards" in the subject so my mail filter will catch it.
- Dec 16, 2005
- We're not dead yet! There's a constant undercurrent of postings and crittings, and the odd spurt of discussion. Now, with Wiki! We're testing out using a MediaWiki to work on some shared worlds, including the old Co-op world. There are currently two challenges outstanding (entries due Jan4 and Feb5, respectively), and four items in the crucible. Have at!
- May 1, 2005
- Site is on a new server. Was down for maybe two hours. Mail may still be quirky--about to test that (as of 4:30pm Pacific time)
- Feb 3, 2005
- The site's been seeing some activity. It's nice. Still a lot of work to do. But I posted Lesleigh's "First Line" workshop thing, and there's a "Double Story" challenge going on.
- October 19, 2004
- NEW SITE LIVE. Mailing lists are up. If you have an old account, the process to upgrading to a new account is to try to log in and then follow the instructions from there (you should be given special instructions). TODO: move old stories + workshop info, move rising star awards, implement rising star awards "system", implement crit system, add 'bounce' testing to mailing lists, add bounce mail to addresses trying to post that are not members, implement news system, transfer old 'news' items, create 'links' and transfer old 'links'. Maybe make the 'last three lines of chat' show up somewhere unobtrusive on the site. Maybe add a 'suggestions' or 'bulletin' board. Implement challenge submission system. Transfer old challenges and old challenge submissions.
- September 6, 2004
- I still need to wrap this "news" stuff. And decide what exactly's going to go in it. For now, TODO: move old stories + workshop info, move rising star awards, implement rising star awards "system", implement vote resolution system, implement crit system, implement mailing lists, implement news system, transfer old 'news' items, create 'links' and transfer old 'links'. Maybe make the 'last three lines of chat' show up somewhere unobtrusive on the site. Maybe add a 'suggestions' or 'bulletin' board. Implement challenge submission system. Transfer old challenges and old challenge submissions. Deem the new site good enough and move it over, retiring the old site.
- April 9, 2003
- begin redesign based on pasi's info and thoughts and whatnot. TODO: finalize look, better spider, maybe do UML modeling and feature list and all that good stuff, figure out the methodology for dynamically changing the locationbar. dynamically change "section" bar? or add to it when in deeper areas? links to members on front page should be links to their member info. ascertain strategy for moving old code. figure out what goes in newsbox and how that's archived... don't forget voting booth... rsa nominations... rewrite of faqs (once again)... linking to legacy areas (once again.......)... find somewhere or somewhy to put in a calendar? suggestions board?
- 2003
- Site redeveloped in jsp (yeah, I know...)
- 2000
- Site redeveloped in jsp, then php
- 1999
- Renamed "Imaginaries"
- 1998
- Kaolin Fire was duped into taking over. ;) Site migrated from AOL to cgi on transbay. site actually written in c!
- 1996
- The "Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Co-operative" was founded back in 1996 or so by one Mark Bonica. Site developed in pure html.
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