This week’s word for Wednesday I lifted entirely from a Haggard Hawks tweet: SPREZZATURA is deliberate nonchalance, or the act of making something difficult look effortless.
Awards:
The Israeli Society for Fantasy and Science Fiction has announced its 2016 Geffen winners.
The Baen Memorial Contest is open for fiction about near-future space exploration. The deadline for submissions is February, 2017.
(Thanks to Locus Magazine for both items.)
Books and Writing:
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