It’s now almost a month since the Kalamazoo IMC, and an
update on what were a couple of excellent ‘Tales After Tolkien’ sessions is
long overdue. Thank you to everyone who was involved – giving papers,
presiding, and turning up to be part of great discussion with the audience
during question time! The panels went so well participants were keen to do it
all again next year, so we’ve formed the ‘Tales After Tolkien Society’ to
sponsor two (proposed) sessions and a round table. I sent off the proposal tot
conference committee last week, so fingers crossed it all goes ahead as
planned.
The sessions this year were focused around fantasy - with a little bit of science fiction thrown in - but the Society expands on that and is interested in medievalism in all kinds of popular genre fiction: fantasy, sci-fi, horror, westerns, romance, YA, children's, historical writing, crime and cross-genre work as well. The proposed sessions for next year's Kalamazoo will include speculative and non-speculative genres, so watch this space for full details.
See our website www.talesaftertolkien.org
for our mission statement – we have
sights set on more than Kalamazoo 2014! The website exists through the efforts
and generosity of Associate Professor Carol L. Robinson from Kent State
University Trumbull, who was one our presiders and first suggested a society.
There’ll be plenty of cross-posting between TAT and here, but if you’re
interested in being a member and on our mailing list please contact me on Helen.young@sydney.edu.au
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