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    Below is an official invitation from the Forodrim to the Mythopoeic
Society.
    We are aware that this is coming late, less than two months before
the day when the price goes up.  But if people who think of coming
only let us know before then, they can enjoy the lower price even if
they pay it later, for instance when they arrive.
    Will you send the invitation on to the Mythopoeic Society
announcement list, so that it reaches members as quick as possible?

             Chivalrous greetings,

                 Beregond, Anders Stenstr m

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    The year is drawing near when the Forodrim will
have been active for three enneads, reaffirming
the glory and grandeur of the ancient Middle-earth
in a paled world.
    We intend to appropriately celebrate this
memorial: when we march through the Gates of next
Summer a feast begins that will last for four days
and three nights.
    Therefore the North-people - its Grand Council,
Knighthood and Commoners - invites you all, dear
kinsfolk, to attend the Twentyseven-year jubilee of
the Forodrim, L tess  26-29 XXVIII (May 13-16 1999).
    Our jubilee also has the honour to constitute the
Northern Tolkien Festival '99, and we hope for many
guests from far away. There will be entertainment,
an Arda-symposium, good food, dance, competitions,
and an auction.
    The entire festivity will aim at recreating some
of the splendour of R menna of yore, and N menor will
be the theme of the Arda-symposium at the festival.
    Welcome!


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    The festival will begin May 13 in the morning, so
you should be in Stockholm on the Wednesday, May 12.
    The first meal will be a picnic; if you do not bring
your own food, you can get it from us if you tell us in
advance.
    The main part of the festival will be on the island
Blid  outside Stockholm, and costs today 755 crowns
(about   56, $ 95) if you want all we offer (see below
for the alternatives). One can go to the island by bus
or car, but we hope to arrange a boat for our guests, at
a price to be announced later.
    A participant that is under 18 years of age, needs a
legal guardian's written consent, and an adult
fellow-guest taking responsibility.
    Let us know how many nights before and after the
festival you wish to stay in Stockholm, and we will
lodge you for free. On the Sunday, there will be a
sightseeing tour in Stockholm for you.
    At the festival there will be an inn, where food can be
bought, though it will be shut during the Thursday
barbecue and the Saturday banquet. There will be no
kitchen place for cooking your own food.
    If you go to Stockholm by car and have one or more
empty places, it is also a good idea to tell us; we may
know who wants a ride.
    Write and tell us if you have something to present at
the symposium, and likewise if you have anything for the
arts & crafts competition, or if you plan to bring
anything to be sold at the auction.
    A society that wants to make an embassy to the
Forodrim at the jubilee should contact us at least two
weeks before.
    A group of guests may of course send their payment
together.
    Further information will turn up on
http://www.algonet.se/~arador/ntf/ntf99en.html, and will be
sent later this spring to those who have registered. If you
have any questions now, send e-mail or a letter to

The person in charge of the celebration:
  Xera, Sara Vikstr m Norrthon
  Hornsgatan 158 A
  117 28 Stockholm
  Sweden
  +46 - (0)8 - 84 11 48
  Sara.vikstrom.norrthon@...

Contact person of the Northern Tolkien festival
   Beregond, Anders Stenstr m
  G tgatan 20 C
  S-752 22 UPPSALA
  Sweden
  +46 - (0)18 - 50 84 05
  beregond@...

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Registration form
for the 27-year Jubilee of the Forodrim

Middle-earth name:
Society:
Name else:
Adress:
Telephone:
E-mail:

I register for (amounts in Swedish crowns):
  Being there
_ Thursday, 125:-
_ Friday, 150:-
_ Saturday, 175:-
(Sunday is free)
  Breakfasts
_ Breakfast Friday, 15:-
_ Breakfast Saturday, 15:-
_ Breakfast Sunday, 15:-
  Main meals
_ Barbecue Thursday, 50:-
_ Buffet dinner Friday, 85:-
_ Banquet Saturday, 125:-

_ All of the above, 755:-

Sleeping quarters at the festival (the number of beds
is limited)
_ I have to sleep indoors in a bed because:
_ I want to sleep indoors, the floor is OK
_ I want to sleep in a pavilion/tent

_ I have a pavilion
_ I have a tent
_ I am willing to lend it, or
_ share it with some other(s). Number of places:

Other wishes or comments concerning sleeping quarters:

Other
_ I want to go by boat to Blid  and will pay the price,
  if it does not exceed:
_ I want a sale table, contact me!
_ I will probably take a bus back on the Sunday (we
  need to forewarn the bus company)
_ I am a vegetarian
_ I have the following food allergies:
_ I have other allergies/diseases you ought to know:
Other wishes or comments:

    Send this form to the Forodrim, Agnegatan 45,
S-112 29 Stockholm, SWEDEN. Pay in Swedish crowns to
the Swedish postal giro account 57 95 09 - 1 "Forodrim",
or by international cheque or money order payable to
"Tolkien-s llskapet Forodrim". (If you want to pay in
instalments, contact Beregond.)
    After April 10, the prices will be raised with a
third. Guests who are not members of a Tolkien society
are admitted only if space allows, and at prices that
are a quarter higher.

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From: David Lenander  <d-lena@...>
Subject: News from Bree
News from Bree 3/31/99

Greetings.

1.  This is the first of several planned periodic updates on developing plans
for Bree Moot 4/Mythcon XXX.  (A fantasy literature conference emphasizing
J.R.R. Tolkien studies July 30-August 2, 1999, in Milwaukee).  If you don't want
to receive e-mailings like this one, please let me know that I should definitely
remove your name from the list.  This is a long memo, and I'd guess that future
memos will be shorter.  I'd originally planned monthly updates, but as
we get closer to Mythcon, I might issue one every couple of weeks.  There may
also be an almost immediate follow-up to this one, within a week, as this memo
may bring forth some additional information and/or possible corrections.  If you
have not joined the conference, you may also wish to confirm by return e-mail
that you'd like to continue receiving these e-mailings. (d-lena@...)  And
visit our web-site if you have a chance, at
http://www.tc.umn.edu/nlhome/m391/d-lena/BreeMoot.html

2.  If you'd like even more discussion of "Mythmoot" (the committee employs this
shorthand expression, why not here?), you might be able to engage in some online
discussion in the Mythopoeic Society's new electronic mailing list.  There's no
requirement for joining beyond interest in the subject.  For complete
information, contact Joan Verba, the list administrator, at verba001@...

If you'd like just the most important announcements from Mythmoot (along
with--possibly--some other Mythopoeic Society announcements) you could elect to
join the Mythopoeic Society announcements list, which has little traffic, and
would probably be shorter postings than these News from Bree postings.  Joan
Verba also administers that.

3.  Hopefully, by now, the Bree Moot 4/Mythcon XXX Progress Report 1 should have
reached everyone concerned, including at least all U.S. members of the
conference.  Thanks to editor Matt Fisher and production editor Anne Osborn for
sending these.  I can e-mail or print out the information for anyone who hasn't
received her/his copy.  There is also our web-site, where all of the pertinent
information should be available, and where I ve posted the text for PR#1 as
received via e-mail from Matt.  I will also try to at least excerpt
information from this posting for placement on the web-site, as well.  I'm not
sure what exactly will be in Progress Report 2, but that will go to far fewer
people, the members of the conference, plus, I suppose, people who've not yet
joined but have indicated interest in attending.  If you have questions you'd
like answered, let us know what they are and we'll try to include them in PR#2
(hopefully we can respond to your question more immediately, as well).  I
noticed two apparent errors in PR1.  Jo Ann Johnson is the Registrar, not me
(David Lenander), and so far as my records, the web-site and some publicity
indicate, the conference membership rate goes up to $55 after April 4, not $50.
I m asking the committee to reconsider this situation, as out publicity in PR #1
has gone out a couple of months later than originally planned, due to confusion
about the board & room rates at the conference center.  Ask if you're not sure
what to send and on behalf of the registrar, we will accept later payments at
the $45 rate at least until April 15 from anyone who contacts us and explains
that they ve only just received word about the conference.  Matt Fisher will be
editing PR2 as well, and can be contacted at fisher@...

4.  Deadlines.  The most immediate deadline is April 1, the deadline for paper
proposals to Papers Chair Jan Bogstad.  As we understand that our program is not
full, I expect that additional proposals will be considered after that date,
probably at least through the end of April, but that will be dependant upon
space available in the program.  So, even if you're only thinking vaguely about
a possible paper, you might want to write to Jan and let her know your ideas,
immediately, so that she may have an opportunity to advise you as to whether
the
proposal could fit well into the developing program, or possibly give you some
advice on shaping your proposal for Mythcon/Bree Moot.

As mentioned above, the next deadline for membership rate is April 4, after
which the membership rate rises from the current $45 to $55.  Note the two
cautions in point 3, particularly that we ll be accepting the $45 rate through
April 15.

The board and room package deadline is June 1.  Again, this might be available
after that date, or a somewhat more expensive package might be available, but we
have plenty of available space until that date.

July 15 is the firm deadline for advance registration for the conference, after
that date membership will be $60.  We may still process registrations received
after that date (allowing pre-printing of badges for instance) which might save
you some time at the door, but we will consider late registrations at-the-door,
and collect any difference between the enclosed amount and $60.

5.  Members of the conference committee & e-mail contacts:
Richard West is the chairperson, rcw@...
Greg Rihn is the co-chair and Milwaukee coordinator, ggrihn@...
Jan Bogstad is the papers chair, contact her at bogstajm@...
Jo Ann Johnson is registrar, contact via David Lenander at d-lena@...
David Emerson is programs co-chair, david.emerson@...
Matt Fisher is editing the Progress Reports:  fisher@...
Phil Kaveny is Dealers Tables coordinator, phkaveny@...
Charles Elston, curator of the Tolkien collection, Charles.Elston@...
Joan Verba is acting Secretary for Mythopoeic Conferences, verba001@...
Other members of the committee include:  Douglas A. Anderson, Eleanor Arnason,
David Bratman, Sue Dawe, Michael Du Charme (film program), Michael Foster, David
Hoose, John Houghton, S. Gary Hunnewell, Sylvia Hunnewell, Jan Long (Secretary),
Jeff Long (Treasurer), Nancy Martsch (Beyond Bree editor), Georgie L.Schnobrich,
Marion Van Loo, Mike Zielinski

6.  David Emerson would like to hear about any non-paper program proposals at
david.emerson@...
He particularly invites inquiries from any conference members who play musical
instruments for some ideas he has.  We're wide open on different program items.
Past conferences have included panel discussions, group book discussions
(sometimes hosted by members of the various Mythopoeic Society discussion
groups), dramatic presentations, including everything from full-dress musicals
to dramatic readings to puppet shows (even if Tolkien didn't believe in bringing
fantasy to the stage!), costume and writing workshops, other kinds of
performances, filk-singing, slide presentations, videos, living chess games,
etc.  The bulk of the program is usually a combination of formal papers and
panel-style discussions, but we don't rule out anything in advance!

For instance, I'd like to have a panel presentation of papers or discussion of
upper-Midwest fantasy writers, for example, such writers as P.C. Hodgell,
Eleanor Arnason, Caroline Stevermer, Patricia C. Wrede, Phyllis Karr, or Peg
Kerr.  I'd like to have a demonstration/discussion of fantasy/mythopoeic content
in WorldWideWeb sites.  I'd like to have a panel discussion of animal
fantasy/beast fable, including children's books but not so limited.  Send your
ideas to David E, and I'll try to report more next month.

Richard West notes that 1999 is the 50th anniversary of the publication of
Farmer Giles of Ham and the 100th anniversary of the birth of Nevill
Coghill (one of the Inklings). We hope to do something in honor of both
anniversaries at the MythMoot.  Obviously, any paper or program proposals on
either topic would be especially welcome.

7.  Registrar notes.  We've been gradually receiving questions for the
registrar, about accommodations, directions to the convention site (the
Archbishop Cousins Conference Center in Milwaukee).  We hope to include
much of this sort of information, including directions to the site and probably
a map in future Progress Reports.  But we'll probably overlook the most
important question you have if you don't send it to us now.  Send these queries
to me for forwarding to Jo Ann Johnson (d-lena@...)

8.  Several of the Mythmoot committee members will be attending SF conventions
in the upper midwest over the next couple of months.  If you'll be at one of
these conventions, you could certainly talk to one of us in person about
Mythmoot developments.  I know that there will be members at Minicon (April 2-4)
and CONvergence in the twin cities, Minnesota, hopefully (?) X-Con in Milwaukee,
and Wiscon in Madison.  WE may even hold committee meetings there.  Let me know
if you'll be at any of these!

9.  Can you help us publicize Bree Moot 4/Mythcon XXX?  Especially with our
proposal coming together so late last year, and with our committee scattered
over three metro areas (we've referred to it as 3M:  Madison, Milwaukee and
Minneapolis (or Minnesota, as some of us Minnesotans live in St. Paul!) our
publicity has been scattershot.    If you'd be willing to put out flyers at a
conference or convention, or in a local bookstore, or post a flyer on a bulletin
board, or send a press release to your local paper, particularly in the upper
midwest,  please let me know.  You could also forward addresses of bookstores
that might put out our literature (as opposed to tossing out our flyers with the
junk mail) or newspapers or other publications that might run our conference
information as a public service announcement.  If you know someone who might be
interested, send me an address for mailing one of our flyers.  (Or better yet,
tell your friend about Mythmoot!)

10.  As yet, we've heard of no firm bid for Mythcon or Bree Moot in the year
2000.  If you're interested, or might, possibly, be persuaded to work on one of
these conferences, contact Joan Verba, Acting Secretary for Mythopoeic
Conferences, or Nancy Martsch, editor of Beyond Bree.

11.  Official announcements are being prepared, but there will be several
openings on the Mythopoeic Society Council of Stewards as several Stewards have
either already stepped down or do not plan to run for re-election.  If you might
be interested in working on keeping the Society going, start thinking about what
you'd like to do or see happen.  Areas to focus on:  Publicity, discussion and
special interest groups, membership services, Mythlore, and future Mythopoeic
conferences and the Fantasy and Scholarship Awards.  With such a large turnover,
the opportunities are wide-open.  This will be a topic for discussion at the
Mythcon Members' Meeting.


David Lenander, Library Manager I
Bio-Medical Library Access Services              work:  (612)626-3375
Circulation, Core Collections & Reserve Desks    home:  (651)292-8887
Diehl Hall/505 Essex SE                           fax:  (612)626-2454
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455

e-mail:  d-lena@...
web-page: http://www.tc.umn.edu/nlhome/m391/d-lena/BreeMoot.html



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Joan Marie Verba                          verba001@...
Club Coordinator, Official Siddig El Fadil/Alexander Siddig Fan Club
Secretary for the Mythopoeic Press, Mythopoeic Society
List administrator for DocEx, MythSoc, MNSCBWI, and MNSCREENW lists
Member of GASP, Keeper of Giles's Writing Desk
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http://www.sff.net/people/Joan.Marie.Verba

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Looking for a Few Good Stewards

Members of the Mythopoeic Society will be electing the Council of Stewards
to new three-year terms in the fall of 1999. While all of these positions
are open to members at every election, the Council is conducting its most
active search ever for capable volunteers because four incumbents are not
seeking re-election. Their positions are: Secretary for Mythopoeic
Conferences, Editor of Mythlore, Membership Secretary, and Secretary for
Discussion Groups.

Composition of the Council: There are 11 Stewards on the Council, including
the Founder, Glen GoodKnight (who is remaining on the Council, but is
resigning as editor of Mythlore.) Here is a brief description of the other
10 positions.

Corresponding Secretary: Handles e-mail and postal correspondence;
publishes the Steward's Forum monthly; maintains contact with Board of
Advisors.

Editor of Mythic Circle: Responsible for editing and publishing of Mythic
Circle.

Editor of Mythlore: Responsible for editing and publishing of Mythlore.

Editor of Mythprint: Responsible for editing and publishing of Mythprint.

Manager of the Orders Department: Maintains the Society's stock of back
issues and sales items. Maintains a transaction log and document file
relative to all membership, subscription, and sale records. Mails out
current issues, back orders, and merchandise as required. Manages the
Society dealer's table at Mythcon. Invoices institutional subscribers as
needed and services delivery complaints. Updates membership and subscriber
information to the periodical data compilers. Deposits checks and posts
records to Treasurer.

Membership Secretary: Keeps membership records; Maintains the Society
database; Publishes the membership directory.

Recording Secretary: Keeps minutes of Stewards' meetings; coordinates
elections

Secretary for Discussion Groups: Facilitates formation of discussion
groups; assists discussion groups with questions or concerns; forwards a
calendar of discussion groups to Mythprint.

Secretary for the Mythopoeic Press: Responsible for acquisition,
production, sales, and marketing of Mythopoeic Press publications. With the
editorial board, selects items for publication. Secures rights. Handles
publishing, publicity and distribution.

Secretary for Mythopoeic Conferences: Responsible for Mythcons. Primary
tasks involve contacting groups interested in running a Mythcon and keeping
in touch with groups planning future Mythcons. Advises Mythcon committees.

Treasurer: Keeps the Society's books; prepares the annual budget; reports
to the Council of Stewards, Society membership, and government agencies as
needed. Coordinates bank accounts. Oversees collection and distribution of
Society funds.

How to Volunteer: The Council intends to recommend a slate of nominees at
its May 22nd meeting. If you would like to communicate your interest in any
position to the Council, contact the Chair, Edith Crowe, via e-mail at:
ecrowe@... or by mail at 1124 Eden Bower Lane, Redwood City, CA
94061. Also, anyone wanting more information on any position is welcome to
contact Edith who will forward the inquiry to the incumbent.

In addition to the slate put together by the Council of Stewards, members
may also be nominated by submitting a petition with the 20 necessary
signatures (5% of current members) to Mike Glyer at 705 Valley View Ave.,
Monrovia CA 91016 by August 16. Watch the Mythopoeic Society web site and
the announcements electronic mailing list for further details. This is an
uncommon opportunity for those of you concerned about the future of the
Society to take a hand in directing that future. Please consider joining
the Council and help us move our unique organization into a new millenium.

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Joan Marie Verba                          verba001@...
Club Coordinator, Official Siddig El Fadil/Alexander Siddig Fan Club
Secretary for the Mythopoeic Press, Mythopoeic Society
List administrator for DocEx, MythSoc, MNSCBWI, and MNSCREENW lists
Member of GASP, Keeper of Giles's Writing Desk
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http://www.sff.net/people/Joan.Marie.Verba

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From: David Lenander  <d-lena@...>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999
Subject: Bree Moot 4/Mythcon 30

I don't think I've noticed anyone posting that the deadlines for Bree
Moot/Mythcon paper proposals and advance registration rates were extended (and
once again at hand with the end of April).  The conference is focusing
particularly on Tolkien this year, but the usual topics of Inklings-related or
general and contemporary fantasy stories and writers (as in the Mythopoeic
Awards) remain welcome and there will also be a particular focus on some of the
writers championed by scholar/editor guest of honor Douglas A. Anderson (such as
Kenneth Morris).

Paper proposals should go to Jan Bogstad, U of WI-Eau Claire, at
bogstajm@...

Advance registrations go to Jo Ann Johnson, 293 Selby Ave., St. Paul, MN
55102-1811

there is a registration form and some additional information on the web-page,
see my sig file below.

On a personal note, I'm looking for papers or people who've written or worked on
the works of P.C. Hodgell, as well as other Minnesota & Wisconsin area fantasy
writers, including Eleanor Arnason, Caroline Stevermer, Peg Kerr, Ruth Berman,
Phyllis Karr, Elizabeth Kindt McKenzie, and most of the Scribblies, incl. Pat
Wrede, Pam Dean, Emma Bull, Kara Dalkey  who've been the subjects of Mythopoeic
Society & University of Wisconsin (Madison) Tolkien Society discussions for a
panel or other program at Mythcon/Bree Moot. Please reply with any suggestions
of people I might contact or citations I might have missed, thanks.

David Lenander, Library Manager I
Bio-Medical Library Access Services              work:  (612)626-3375
Circulation, Core Collections & Reserve Desks    home:  (651)292-8887
Diehl Hall/505 Essex SE                           fax:  (612)626-2454
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455

e-mail:  d-lena@...
web-page: http://www.tc.umn.edu/nlhome/m391/d-lena/BreeMoot.html



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Joan Marie Verba                          verba001@...
Club Coordinator, Official Siddig El Fadil/Alexander Siddig Fan Club
Secretary for the Mythopoeic Press, Mythopoeic Society
List administrator for DocEx, MythSoc, MNSCBWI, and MNSCREENW lists
Member of GASP, Keeper of Giles's Writing Desk
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http://www.sff.net/people/Joan.Marie.Verba

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From: David Lenander  <d-lena@...>
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 10:34:04 -0500
Subject: News from Bree #2
News from Bree #2 5/27/99

Greetings.
1. This is the second of several planned periodic updates on developing plans
for Bree Moot 4/Mythcon XXX. (A fantasy literature conference emphasizing J.R.R.
Tolkien studies July 30-August 2, 1999, in Milwaukee). If you don't want to
receive e-mailings like this one, please let me know so I can remove your name
from the list. This memo is mostly going to people we're expecting to attend the
conference. If you have not joined the conference, you may also wish to confirm
by return e-mail that you'd like to continue receiving these e-mailings.
(d-lena@...) And visit our web-site if you have a chance, at
http://www.tc.umn.edu/nlhome/m391/d-lena/BreeMoot.html

2. Please let us know what other questions you have, which we can address in
another memo like this one, or in Progress Report #2, or in a personal response.
Matt Fisher expect to mail Progress Report #2 after June 15.  And let us know if
you did NOT receive Progress Report #1 or News from Bree #1.

3. Changes in pricing and board and room packages.  We have resolved the
confusion over the price of membership of the conference, which had been
advertised at two different rates after April 4.  As of May 1st and after, our
rate for membership is $50 until July 15.  If received after July 15 or at the
door, the rate rises to $60.  There will be single-day rates, as well, which
together will total no less than $60.  If you sent in membership at the $55
rate, we will refund $5 at the door.
      Unlike many past Mythcons, the board and room packages are separable, as
follows:  The entire board package (meals only) can be had for $115--once again,
this covers meals from Friday evening (supper/dinner) through Monday morning
(breakfast), and includes the Sunday evening banquet.  We are investigating the
possibility of separate days meals being available:  Saturday-only meals, for
example.  (If available, it would only be whole days per the site
manager--individual meals CANNOT be purchased separately).  EXCEPTION:  we are
planning a separately available Sunday banquet.  You may purchase the Sunday
banquet--only--for $30.
      We do have some room-only additional evenings available:  For $20 per night
you may stay in the "dorm" rooms the Wednesday and/or Thursday and/or Monday
evenings (IF you have a room-mate for these evenings, you can plan on $15 per
person, maximum of two persons per room).  At this point it appears that meals
will not be available during these evenings.  We will be providing a list of
nearby meal sources. For stays extending even longer, apparently we can
accommodate even earlier arrivals, but stays beyond Tuesday will not be
possible.  Please contact us with specifics, and allow time for us to pursue
further inquiries.

4. Deadlines. The board and room package deadline was announced as June 1. We
think that the deadline will be extended, and we have plenty of available space
as of now. We should know more after Memorial Day.  July 15 is the firm deadline
for advance registration for the conference, after that date membership will be
$60. We may still process registrations received after that date (allowing
pre-printing of badges for instance) which might save you some time at the door,
but we will consider late registrations at-the-door, and collect any difference
between the enclosed amount and $60. I am unsure about a deadline for program
proposals, but it must be fast approaching.  Contact David E or Jan B if you
have a paper or panel to propose!

5. Members of the conference committee & e-mail contacts:
Richard West is the chairperson, rcw@...
Greg Rihn is the co-chair and Milwaukee coordinator, ggrihn@...
Jan Bogstad is the papers chair, contact her at bogstajm@...
Jo Ann Johnson is registrar, contact via David Lenander at d-lena@...
David Emerson is programs co-chair, david.emerson@...
Matt Fisher is editing the Progress Reports: fisher@...
Phil Kaveny is Dealers Tables coordinator, phkaveny@...
Charles Elston, curator of the Tolkien collection, Charles.Elston@...
Joan Verba is acting Secretary for Mythopoeic Conferences, verba001@...
Other members of the committee include: Douglas A. Anderson, Eleanor Arnason,
David Bratman, Sue Dawe, Michael Du Charme (film program), Michael Foster, David
Hoose, John Houghton, S. Gary Hunnewell, Sylvia Hunnewell, Jan Long (Secretary),
Jeff Long (Treasurer), Nancy Martsch (Beyond Bree editor), Georgie L.Schnobrich,
Marion Van Loo, Mike Zielinski

6. I hope to send out a notice listing accepted papers and programs next time.
In the meantime, please contact Jan Bogstad or David Emerson with any proposals.

7. Ann Wilson will be unable to attend the conference.  Please contact me if you
would be interested in purchasing her membership at the $35 rate (her membership
was purchased at last year s Mythcon memberships are transferrable but not
refundable).

8. Several of the Mythmoot committee members will be attending SF conventions in
the upper midwest over the next couple of months. If you'll be at one of these
conventions, you could certainly talk to one of us in person about Mythmoot
developments. I know that there will be members at Wiscon in Madison this
weekend, and hopefully at CONvergence in the twin cities, Minnesota. We may even
hold committee meetings there. Let me know if you'll be at any of these!

9. Can you help us publicize Bree Moot 4/Mythcon XXX? Especially with our
proposal coming together so late last year, and with our committee scattered
over three metro areas our publicity has been scattershot. If you'd be willing
to put out flyers at a conference or convention, or in a local bookstore, or
post a flyer on a bulletin board, or send a press release to your local paper,
particularly in the upper midwest, please let me know. You could also forward
addresses of bookstores that might put out our literature (as opposed to tossing
out our flyers with the junk mail) or newspapers or other publications that
might run our conference information as a public service announcement. If you
know someone who might be interested, send me an address for mailing one of our
flyers. (Or better yet, tell your friend about Mythmoot!)


David Lenander
293 Selby Ave.                                   work:  (612)626-3375
St. Paul, MN 55102-1811                          home:  (651)292-8887
                                                   fax:  (612)626-2454
e-mail:  d-lena@...
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From: David Lenander  <d-lena@...>
To: Aelfwine@...,
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 09:16:12 -0500
Subject: News from Bree #3
If you have not previously received News From Bree #1 and #2, and would like to
(information is mostly not repeated here), contact me and request a posting of
these.

1.  CORRECTION on extra nights lodging.  "News from Bree" #2 stated that
additional nights lodging were available at $20 per night (single, or
$15/night/person, double), but there is no meal package (or meals on-"campus"
available.  This is correct.  However, contrary to what I wrote in that posting,
ONLY Thursday night and Monday night are available.  The previous Wednesday is
NOT available--we had misunderstood the conference center people when we had
reported that.

2.  I have recently posted more information about the Cousins Center site, and a
list of accepted programs/papers, originally from Jan Bogstad, our Papers chair
and programming co-chair (with David Emerson).  These notes (as well as a few
others) can be found from links on our Bree Moot 4/Mythcon XXX web-page
(http://www.tc.umn.edu/nlhome/m391/d-lena/BreeMoot.html).  If you do not have
easy access to an internet connection and web-browser, I can e-mail (or even
snail mail) a copy of any of these files to you.  Contact me to request them.
Some of this information should be in the Progress Report #2, which should be in
the mail from Matt Fisher by the end of June--at the latest, via first class
mail.  As of this mailing, the list of conference members is several weeks out
of date.  I hope to update that list early next week.

3.  DEADLINES:  After discussions with the Cousins Center folks, we are able to
extend the board & room package deadline to the end of June.  That's June 30.
Please try to see that we've received your room & board money by this date.  If
you're putting the money in the mail on June 30, contact us by phone or e-mail
to let us know.  If you're suddenly interested in room and/or board AFTER this
date, please contact us by e-mail or telephone to ask first.  Registrar Jo Ann
Johnson would like to remind members that the board and room components ARE
separable this year, and the meal plan is available for $115.  We thought at one
time that we might be able to separate this plan further by meal, but that is
not possible for the Cousins Center staff.  We had reported that we might be
able to at least further divide the meal plan by day, aside from the separately
available Sunday evening banquet ($30).  This turns out to be much more
complicated than it seemed, as our price is based upon certain estimated numbers
and group discounts.  IF you are going to be at the conference only for one day,
please contact us about a possible day rate, and we will try to make an
adjustment for you.  Please make any special requests as far in advance as
possible.  After June 30 it will be difficult to make any changes.  Note that if
you will not have a car at the conference, meal options away from the Cousins
Center are limited and several blocks away.

IF you have special dietary requests, such as for a vegetarian or vegan diet,
please be sure to inform us by June 20, and be as specific as possible.

Papers & other program item deadline.  When the committee last met, I expected
to have this notice out very shortly after we had returned from Wiscon, and to
include the list of papers accepted by Jan.  Although even that would've
included only a few days time to get additional paper proposals in, we were
announcing that the final deadline for paper proposals would be extended to June
10, as there was still room in the program.  I regret that I haven't been able
to send this notice until now.  David Emerson was a bit more flexible on other
program proposals, able to accept proposals at least until June 15, and possibly
later, but it's important to contact him as soon as possible, also.  If you're
proposing a panel, it might be wise to also suggest some members and take
responsibility for contacting some of your proposed panelists and ask if they'd
be willing/interested.  Let David know.

I think that there may have been one or two paper proposals about which I had
heard from members but which did NOT appear on Jan's list.  If you think you
sent a proposal but did not receive a response from Jan, and/or your paper does
NOT appear on the list on the web-page (see note 2, above), try to contact her
immediately.  Jan will be out of the country for much of the time between
mid-June and the conference at the end of July, so she may not be able to
process more requests, even if there would have been room.  You may wish to copy
any such inquiry to Programming co-chair David Emerson, as he will be working on
programming and might still be able to accept some proposals for some time yet
in June, or he may have a more recent list from Jan--although perhaps he is only
working on non-paper proposals (such as panel or other kinds of presentations.
Only some of these are listed in Jan's list).  Also, David will be handling the
scheduling of programs for Mythcon/Bree Moot, so if you have particular needs in
this regard, you may wish to contact him for any sort of program/paper (for
instance, if you haven't told us that you will have to give your paper on
Saturday, because you aren't arriving until late  Friday and have to be leaving
on Sunday--or whatever).




David Lenander
293 Selby Ave.                                   work:  (612)626-3375
St. Paul, MN 55102-1811                          home:  (651)292-8887
                                                   fax:  (612)626-2454
e-mail:  d-lena@...

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Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 16:22:21 -0700
Subject: "TILL WE HAVE FACES" ON STAGE

LAMB S PLAYERS THEATRE TO PRESENT THE PREMIERE OF

C.S. LEWIS S

TILL WE HAVE FACES

AUGUST 13 to SEPTEMBER 19, 1999


Lamb s Players Theatre is pleased to announce the premiere of
TILL WE HAVE FACES, a riveting new stage adaptation of the novel
by C.S. Lewis.

First presented by Lamb s Players as a workshop production at the
C.S. Lewis Centennial Celebration in Cambridge, England last
summer, TILL WE HAVE FACES received an overwhelming response.
That encouraged Lamb s Players to mount it as a full production
in its 1999 Season.

Though perhaps his most overlooked book, TILL WE HAVE FACES was
Lewis  own personal favorite. As literature it has its own unique
style: part myth, part mystery, part biographical novel.

Using the Greek myth of the encounter between the god Cupid and
the beautiful girl Psyche, Lewis explores issues of power,
beauty, spiritual experience and the self-centeredness of human
love.  His central character, Orual - Psyche s older sister ? is
one of the most fascinating and layered women in literature.

The Lamb s Players stage adaptation uses a cast of 12 and a vivid
and physical theatricality to bring this haunting tale to life.

TILL WE HAVE FACES was developed under the direction of Artistic
Director, Robert Smyth.  Costume Design by Jeanne Reith, with
Scenic Design by Michael Buckley, Light Design by Nathan Peirson
and original music by Deborah Gilmour Smyth.

C.S. Lewis, one of the 20th Century s best selling authors, was
on the faculty of Oxford University for thirty year.  Repeatedly
passed over for professorship at Oxford he went on instead to the
chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge.

As an author he tackled a range of subjects and styles from
poetry, science fiction, autobiography, children s books,
theology and cultural studies,

In 1936 The Allegory of Love was published.  Today it remains a
respected textbook on Medieval Literature. During the war his
book The Screwtape Letters was a popular hit. Today he is
probably best know for his children s series The Chronicles of
Narnia.

TILL WE HAVE FACES was published in 1956. Lewis had carried the
idea around for decades.  He first envisioned it as an epic poem
or a mask play.  It was the story ideas and theatrical
possibilities that attracted Lamb s Players to an adaptation.

Celebrating its 28th year, Lamb s Players is San Diego s third
largest theatre company and maintains the regions only year round
acting company. The company s beautiful resident theatre located
in the historic Spreckels Building in the charming seaside
community of Coronado.

It also mounts productions throughout the year at the Lyceum
Theatre in Horton Plaza, The California Center for the Arts,
Escondido, the Playhouse On Plaza in National City and each
December at the Hotel del Coronado.

In addition, Lamb s Players Educational Outreach is the largest
in the county, impacting over 60,000 students each year.

FIND OUT MORE!  Visit us at http://www.lambsplayers.org

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From: Eleanor Farrell  <emfarrell@...>
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 10:00:29 -0700 (PDT)

Mythopoeic Society Web Site becomes Amazon.com Associate

The Society's Council of Stewards recently approved a decision to explore
the web site's participation with on-line booksellers, and we have set up
as an Amazon.com Associate. (This seller was chosen first because
Amazon.com carries the two Mythopoeic Press titles, and we have set up
individual links to these books.) Please support the Society by making
purchases from Amazon.com through our links!

Our hope is to bring in a little indirect cash from our own publications
and members, and perhaps expand to include links from Mythopoeic Award
winners and other outstanding fantasy books. We'd be happy to receive
feedback -- pro or con -- on this and related matters; please contact the
web administrator, Eleanor Farrell, at emfarrell@... with
suggestions.

Mythopoeic Society web site: http://www.mythsoc.org

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From: Eleanor Farrell  <emfarrell@...>
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 10:00:26 -0700 (PDT)

Announcement: Mythcon XXXI
The 31st Annual Mythopoeic Conference

Dates: August 18-21, 2000
Location: Kilauea Military Camp
Island of Hawaii, Hawaii
Theme: Myth and Legend of the Pacific

The first Mythopoeic Conference in a year beginning with a "2" promises to
be a unique event and a definite change of pace. Belying its name, our
site-Kilauea Military Camp (KMC)-is a luxurious private resort located at
the edge of Kilauea Crater adjacent to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on
the Big Island of Hawaii. (You can't get much closer to the Crack of Doom!)
The local Society discussion group, Sammath Naur, invites everyone to help
celebrate their 25th anniversary at a Mythcon focusing on Pacific Island
mythology.

The conference site is accessible via Hilo airport, and some direct flights
are available from the mainland to the island of Hawaii. Of course, we urge
you all to spend time before or after Mythcon exploring the many beautiful
locations and rich cultural heritage of the Hawaiian Islands.
Specifics on room and board rates, travel suggestions, recommended
background reading, and other pertinent information, as well as a call for
papers, will be available shortly. Please check the Mythopoeic Society web
site for updates and relevant links, such as the KMC web site.

Registration
Conference registration is $35 until November 30th, and will increase after
that date. Please make checks out to Mythcon 31 and send to:

Eleanor M. Farrell, Treasurer
Mythcon 31
P.O. Box 320486
San Francisco, CA 94132-0486

E-mail: emfarrell@...
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From: Eleanor Farrell  <emfarrell@...>
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 17:45:33 -0800

2000 Mythopoeic Awards
-----------------------

Members of the Mythopoeic Society are invited to join the committees which
choose the Society's annual Fantasy and Scholarship Awards, and/or to
nominate eligible books. Nominations (no more than five books for each
award, please) and requests to serve on the selection committees should be
sent by February 29, 2000 to the awards administrator:

Eleanor M. Farrell
P.O. Box 320486
San Francisco, CA 94132-0486
E-mail: emfarrell@...

The Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature is given to the fantasy
novel, multi-volume, or single-author story collection for adults published
during 1998 that best exemplifies "the spirit of the Inklings". Reissues
(such as paperback editions) are eligible if no earlier edition was a
finalist. Books from a series are eligible if they stand on their own;
otherwise, the series is eligible the year its final volume appears. Last
year's winner was _Stardust_ by Neil Gaiman and Charles  Vess.

The Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature honors books for
younger readers (from "Young Adults" to picture books for beginning
readers), in the tradition of The Hobbit or The Chronicles of Narnia. Rules
for eligibility are otherwise the same as for the Adult Literature award.
The question of which award a borderline book is best suited for will be
decided by consensus of the committees. Last year's winner was the _Dark
Lord of Derkholm_ by  Diana Wynne Jones.

The Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies is given to books on
Tolkien, Lewis, and/or Williams that make significant contributions to
Inklings scholarship. For this award, books first published during the last
three years (1996-1998) are eligible, including finalists for previous
years. Last year's winner was _C.S. Lewis: A Companion & Guide_ by Walter
Hooper. The Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies is
given to scholarly books on other specific authors in the Inklings
tradition, or to more general works on the genres of myth and fantasy. The
period of eligibility is three years, as for the Inklings Studies award.
Last year's winner was _A Century of Welsh Myth in Children's Literature_
by Donna R. White.

Volunteers for the committees must state their willingness to read all the
finalists, and also state whether or not they are willing to be included on
an address list to be distributed among the committee for purposes of
discussion. For each committee, Eleanor will be sending out lists of
nominees in early March, from which you must pick five books that you would
like to see as finalists. Your choices must be returned to Eleanor by May
15; she will then tabulate the vote and inform the committee of the five
finalists. These five are the books you must read (or re-read) by the final
voting deadline of July 15. Please volunteer, and come to hear the winners
announced at Mythcon XXXI, to be held in Hawaii from August 18-21.




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Attention, Writers of Science Fiction and Fantasy!

_The_Mythic_Circle_ is on the lookout for original stories and poems.

What is The Mythic Circle?   We are a small literary magazine published
by the Mythopoeic
Society, which celebrates the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and
Charles Williams.
These adventuresome writers saw themselves as continuators of a rich
imaginative tradition, encompassing writers as different as Homer and
H. G. Wells.  For more information, check out our website:
http://www.mythsoc.org/

Works submitted on paper should be typed and double spaced and should
include a stamped,
self-addressed envelope for the return of manuscript.  E-mail
submissions are also encouraged and are likely to get a faster reply.
Simultaneous submissions should be clearly identified as such.

It is the policy of the editors to respond individually to all
submissions.

As a small publication, we can only reward our authors and illustrators
with one complimentary copy of the issue in which the accepted work
appears.  All rights revert to the author on publication.



Mail submissions and Letters of Comment to:

                         Trent M. Walters
                         54322 US Hwy 275
                      Glenwood, Iowa  51534


or Email: Mythiccircle@...


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From: Ted Sherman, Mythlore editor
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 12:04:36 -0600
Subject: Mythlore 85, vol. 22.3

Mythlore is now in the hands of the printer. It will be in the
mail within 2-3 weeks.

All submissions for publication should conform to The MLA Style Manual
(New York: Modern Language Association, 1998). Article submissions
normally should be 3000-9000 words; reviews of books should be 250-750
words. Submissions should be formatted as MicrosoftWord, WordPerfect, or
plain ASCII/text files and submitted electronically via e-mail
attachment. Authors unable to submit essays electronically should
include a separate cover sheet with author identification. Authors are
responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyrighted and
unpublished materials. Essays not accepted for publication will be
returned only if the author provides a self-addressed and stamped
envelope. Authors may expect a decision regarding publication within
three-to-six months. Submissions should be sent to:

Dr. Theodore James Sherman
Editor, Mythlore
Box X041, Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN 37132
615 898-5836
615 898-5098 FAX
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From: ecrowe@...
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 11:46:13 -0800
Subject: Mythcon Paper Call

Paper Call--the 31st Annual Mythopoeic Conference (Mythcon XXXI)
Theme: Myth and Legend of the Pacific
Kilauea Military Camp, Volcano, Island of Hawai'i, Hawai'i
August 18-21, 2000

Guest of Honor: Steven Goldsberry
Author of Maui the Demigod: An Epic Novel of Mythical Hawai'i
Associate Professor of English (Creative Writing), University of Hawai'i
at Manoa

The Mythopoeic Society is an international literary and educational
organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of the
works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams. It believes
the study of these writers can lead to a greater understanding and
appreciation of the literary, philosophical, and spiritual traditions
which underlie their works, and can also engender an interest in the
study of the genre of fantasy as a whole and the realm of myth and
legend from which such authors derive their inspiration.

Papers dealing with the conference theme are encouraged. We also invite
papers focusing on the work and interests of our Guest(s) of Honor, or
on the Inklings (especially Tolkien, Lewis and Williams). Papers on
other fantasy authors and themes are also welcome. Some that suggest
themselves are island worlds; the Great Sea; sea journeys; symbolism of
earth and fire. We are interested in papers from a variety of
perspectives and disciplines.

Papers should be suitable for oral presentation within a time period of
20 to 45 minutes, leaving 10-15 minutes for questions. They should
conform to the MLA Style Manual. Papers chosen for presentation at the
conference will be considered for publication in Mythlore, the refereed
journal of the Mythopoeic Society. Abstracts of papers should be sent to
the Papers Coordinator at the following address by April 30, 2000:

Edith L. Crowe, Clark Library
San Jose State University
San Jose, CA 95192-0028
ecrowe@...
Phone: 408.924.2738
Fax: 408.924.2701
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From: emfarrell@...
Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 12:11:48 -0800
Subject: Mythopoeic Award finalists

The finalists for the four 2000 Mythopoeic Awards have been selected by the
committees, and include:

MYTHOPOEIC FANTASY AWARD (ADULT LITERATURE)
	 Peter S. Beagle,  _Tamsin_ (Roc hc November 1999)
	 A. S. Byatt,  _Elementals_ (Random House hc May 1999)
     	 Lisa Goldstein, _Dark Cities Underground_ (Tor hc June 1999)
    	 Peg Kerr, _The Wild Swans_ (Warner Aspect tp May 1999)
     	 Yves Meynard, _The Book of Knights_ (Tor tp April 1999)

MYTHOPOEIC FANTASY AWARD (CHILDREN'S LITERATURE)
	 David Almond,  _Skellig_ (Delacorte hc April 1999)
	 Franny Billingsley,  _The Folk Keeper_  (Atheneum hc October 1999)
     	 Tamora Pierce, "The Circle of Magic" series, consisting of:
		 _Sandry's Book_ (Scholastic hc 1997, Point pb September
1999)
		 _Tris' Book_ (Scholastic hc 1998, Point pb September1999)
		 _Daja's Book_ (Scholastic hc October 1998, Point pb March
2000)
		 _Briar's Book_ (Scholastic hc April 1999, Point pb March
2000)
    	 J.K. Rowling, _Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban_ (Arthur A.
Levine hc Sept 1999)
     	 Cynthia Voigt, "Kingdom" series, consisting of:
		 _Elske_ (Atheneum hc October 1999)
		 _Jackaroo_ (MacMillan hc 1985, Point pb 1995)
		 _On Fortune's Wheel_ (Econo-Clad Books hc Oct.1999, Aladdin
pb Oct. 1999)
		 _The Wings of a Falcon_ (Point pb 1995)

MYTHOPOEIC SCHOLARSHIP AWARD IN INKLINGS STUDIES
	 Lionel Adey, _C.S. Lewis: Writer, Dreamer & Mentor_ (Eerdmans,
1998)
	 Joseph Pearce, _Tolkien: Man and Myth - A Literary Life_ (Ignatius
Press, 1998)
	 J.R.R. Tolkien (ed. Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull), _Farmer
Giles of Ham_
		 (Houghton Mifflin, 1999)
	 J.R.R. Tolkien (ed. Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull),
_Roverandom_
		 (Houghton Mifflin, 1998)

MYTHOPOEIC SCHOLARSHIP AWARD IN  MYTH AND FANTASY STUDIES
	 Alan Lupack and Barbara Tepa Lupack, _King Arthur in America_
(Brewer, 1999)
	 Christine Poulson, _The Quest for the Grail: Arthurian Legend in
British Art 1840-1920_
		 (Manchester University Press, dist. by St. Martin's Press,
1999)
 	 Michael Riley, _Oz and Beyond: The Fantasy World of L. Frank Baum_
		 (University Press of Kansas, 1997)
	 Carole G. Silver, _Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and
Victorian Consciousness_
		 (Oxford University Press hc, January 1999)
	 Jack Zipes, _When Dreams Come True : Classical Fairy Tales and
Their Tradition_
		 (Routledge pb, December 1998)

------
The awards will be presented during the banquet at Mythcon 32, to be held
in Volcano, Hawaii, August 18-21, 2000. For more information about the
awards, please visit the Society's web page:

	 http://www.mythsoc.org/awards.html


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Mythopoeic Awards Administrator
E-mail: emfarrell@...
P.O. Box 320486
San Francisco, CA 94132-0486
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Now available from the Mythopoeic Press: The Masques of Amen House by
Charles Williams.
Charles Williams worked as an editor of the Oxford University Press (OUP),
whose London offices were in a building called Amen House. In the 1920s,
Williams wrote three short plays (masques) celebrating the work of the
Press, two of which were performed by Williams and his co-workers for the
entertainment of the OUP staff. The first play, The Masque of the
Manuscript, traces the development of a manuscript to a published book; The
Masque of Perusal deals with the sale of the book; in The Masque of the
Termination of Copyright, the book is rediscovered and reprinted. These
plays display Williams’s wit, charm, and sense of humor. Also included in
The Masques of Amen House: Williams’s poems relating to the masques,
selections from the music written by Hubert Foss for the stage productions,
and extensive commentary by Bernadette Bosky and David Bratman about
Williams and the masques.
To order: Each book is $14 plus shipping ($1.25 book rate, $2.75 first
class). Make check payable to the Mythopoeic
Society and send to: Joan Marie Verba, P O Box 1363, Minnetonka, MN
55345-0363.

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> > >Date:    Tue, 25 Jul 2000 13:21:42 -0500
> > >From:    milliew <milliew@...>
> > >Subject: Diana Wynne Jones
> > >
> > >Calling all Diana Wynne Jones scholars! A British publisher has
> > >expressed interest in a possible collection of essays about Jones. I
> > >need contributors who can send me a title and abstract for a proposed
> > >article as soon as possible. You wouldn't actually have to write the
> > >article yet. If the book proposal is accepted, someone will come after
> > >you with a big stick. The editors are open to any and all ideas about
> > >Jones's work, including her science fiction for adults, her place in
the
> > >world of literature, her vast superiority over J. K. Rowling, etc. (We
> > >sold the publisher on the collection based on the current popularity
of
> > >fantasy literature due to Harry Potter.) We would love to have
> > >contributors from Britain and the Commonwealth countries and from
people
> > >of the male persuasion since most of our confirmed contributors are
> > >American females.
> > >    If you are interested, please e-mail any questions or abstracts to
> > >Donna R. White at the following address: milliew@.... And
> > >please forward this message to any person or list-serv that might be
> > >interested. I have only posted to child_lit.
> > >
> > >Donna R. White
> > >Department of English
> > >Arkansas Tech University
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The winners of the 2000 Mythopoeic Awards were announced on August 19th
during the banquet at the 31st Mythopoeic Conference (Mythcon XXXI), held
in Volcano, Hawai'i. The winners are:

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature:

_Tamsin_ by Peter S. Beagle


Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature:

_The Folk Keeper_ by Franny Billingsley


Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies:

_Roverandom_ by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christina Scull and Wayne G.
Hammond


Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies:

_Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness_ by Carole
G. Silver


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A PDF version of our Press Release (which includes the complete list of
finalists and more information on the awards) is available; please contact
me if you would like to receive this version via e-mail.

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Eleanor M. Farrell
Mythopoeic Awards Administrator
E-mail: emfarrell@...
P.O. Box 320486
San Francisco, CA 94132-0486
MythSoc web site: http://www.mythsoc.org

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PAPER CALL--the 32nd Annual Mythopoeic Conference (Mythcon XXXII)
Theme: Many Dimensions: Modern Supernatural Fiction
Clark Kerr Conference Center, Berkeley, California, August 3-6, 2001
http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon32.html

Scholar Guest of Honor: David Llewellyn Dodds
David Llewellyn Dodds is the editor of two books in Boydell and Brewer's
"Arthurian Poets" series, one on Charles Williams and the other on John
Masefield.

Author Guest of Honor: Peter S. Beagle
Peter S. Beagle, author of _The Last Unicorn_, _A Fine and Private
Place_ and many other books, is considered among the finest of modern
fantasy writers. He is a two-time Mythopoeic Fantasy Award winner, for
_The Folk of the Air_ in 1987 and _Tamsin_ in 2000. Beagle was a guest
of honor at Mythcon IV in 1974 and we are honored to welcome him back in
2001.

The Mythopoeic Society is an international literary and educational
organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of the
works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams. It believes
the study of these writers can lead to a greater understanding and
appreciation of the literary, philosophical, and spiritual traditions
which underlie their works, and can also engender an interest in the
study of the genre of fantasy as a whole and the realm of myth and
legend from which such authors derive their inspiration.

Papers dealing with the general conference theme are encouraged, as are
those examining Charles Williams’ role and influence in this genre. We
also invite papers focusing on the work and interests of our Guest(s) of
Honor, or on the other Inklings (especially Tolkien, Lewis). Papers on
other fantasy authors and themes are also welcome. We are interested in
papers from a variety of perspectives and disciplines.

Papers should be suitable for oral presentation within a time period of
20 to 45 minutes, leaving 10-15 minutes for questions. They should
conform to the MLA Style Manual. Papers chosen for presentation at the
conference will be considered for publication in _Mythlore_, the
refereed journal of the Mythopoeic Society. Abstracts of papers should
be sent to the Papers Coordinator at the following address (e-mail is
acceptable) by April 30, 2001:

Edith L. Crowe, Clark Library
San Jose State University
San Jose, CA 95192-0028
ecrowe@...
Phone: 408.924.2738
Fax: 408.924.2701



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From: Eleanor Farrell
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 11:51:35 -0800

Subject: Mythcon 32

Our next Mythopoeic Conference (Mythcon 32) will be held from August 3-6,
2001, at the Clark Kerr Campus in Berkeley, California. The conference
theme is "Many Dimensions: Modern Supernatural Fiction", and focuses on the
role of Inkling Charles Williams as a "father" of this genre. Mythcon 32
Guests of Honor will be David Llewellyn Dodds (Williams Scholar) and Peter
S. Beagle (award-winning fantasy author). The event will include talks from
our guests of honor, scholarly papers, panels, discussions and readings,
exhibits, and entertainment. We will have a dealer's room, art show, and
Society auction, a costume masquerade and Bardic Circles. Our Sunday
evening banquet will include presentation of the annual Mythopoeic Awards.

The Mythcon 32 Paper Call has been previously published on this list; check
the archives if you missed this post.

Conference registration (until March 1, 2001) is $35 for Mythopoeic Society
members and $45 for non-members. Membership for children aged 7-13 is $25.
Conference room and board rates are available; please contact the Mythcon
32 registrar or visit our web site for details. Progress Report 1 is in the
process of being bulk-mailed to registered attendees and to our conference
mailing list. You can download a PDF copy of PR#1 from the Mythcon 32 web
site, along with a registration form which can be printed and mailed.

	 Mythcon 32 information:
	 Bonnie Rauscher, Registrar
	 E-mail: bonnier@...
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Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 14:51:35 -0800

Announcement: 2001 Mythopoeic Awards

Members of the Mythopoeic Society are invited to join the committees which
choose the Society's annual Fantasy and Scholarship Awards, and/or to
nominate eligible books. Nominations (no more than five books for each
award, please) and requests to serve on the selection committees should be
sent by February 28, 2001 to the awards administrator, Eleanor M. Farrell,
P.O. Box 320486, San Francisco, CA 94132-0486, emfarrell@....

The Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature is given to the fantasy
novel, multi-volume, or single-author story collection for adults published
during 2000 that best exemplifies "the spirit of the Inklings". Reissues
(such as paperback editions) are eligible if no earlier edition was a
finalist. Books from a series are eligible if they stand on their own;
otherwise, the series is eligible the year its final volume appears. Last
year's winner was _Tamsin_ by Peter S. Beagle.

The Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature honors books for
younger readers (from "Young Adults" to picture books for beginning
readers), in the tradition of _The Hobbit_ or _The Chronicles of Narnia_.
Rules for eligibility are otherwise the same as for the Adult Literature
award. The question of which award a borderline book is best suited for
will be decided by consensus of the committees. Last year's winner was _The
Folk Keeper_ by Franny Billingsley.

The Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies is given to books on
Tolkien, Lewis, and/or Williams that make significant contributions to
Inklings scholarship. For this award, books first published during the last
three years (1998-2000) are eligible, including finalists for previous
years. Last year's winner was _Roverandom_ by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by
Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond.

The Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies is given to
scholarly books on other specific authors in the Inklings tradition, or to
more general works on the genres of myth and fantasy. The period of
eligibility is three years, as for the Inklings Studies award. Last year's
winner was _Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian
Consciousness_ by Carole G. Silver.

Volunteers for the committees must state their willingness to read all the
finalists, and also state whether or not they are willing to be included on
an address list to be distributed among the committee for purposes of
discussion. For each committee, Eleanor will be sending out lists of
nominees in early March, from which you must pick five books that you would
like to see as finalists. Your choices must be returned to Eleanor by May
15; she will then tabulate the vote and inform the committee of the five
finalists. These five are the books you must read (or re-read) by the final
voting deadline of July 15. Please volunteer, and come to hear the winners
announced at the banquet during Mythcon XXXII, to be held in Berkeley,
California from August 3-6, 2001.
A complete list of Mythopoeic Award winners is available on the Society web
site:

http://www.mythsoc.org/awards.html

The finalists for the literature awards, text of recent acceptance
speeches, and selected book reviews are also listed in this on-line
section.

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Eleanor M. Farrell
Mythopoeic Awards Administrator
E-mail: emfarrell@...
P.O. Box 320486
San Francisco, CA 94132-0486
MythSoc web site: http://www.mythsoc.org

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

TOLKIEN SCHOLARS AND HOBBIT FANS CONVERGE

  Tolkien scholars and hobbit fans will gather at two conferences at The
University of St. Thomas over April [26-28], 2001.  Concerning Hobbits
and Other
Matters: Tolkien Across the Disciplines, on Thursday, April [26], will
feature a
number of formal presentations by scholars from around the country,
under
sponsorship of the St. Thomas English Department.

Bree Moot 5, over the next two days, will celebrate the works and worlds
of
J.R.R. Tolkien in more reader-oriented activities, including  both
individual
and group presentations and informal interactions.

The Bree Moot theme is "The Fellowship of Tolkien," broadly interpreted
to
include approaches to fantasy literature inspired or modeled by Tolkien
in his
fabulously popular fantasy works, including The Hobbit, and The Lord of
the
Rings (now being filmed for a major film release next December by New
Line
Cinema) and in his scholarly works and teaching.  The local Rivendell
Group of
The Mythopoeic Society is devoted to the example of Tolkien's discussion
group
in the 30s and 40s, The Inklings (which also included noted
writer/scholar/professor C.S. Lewis), which met regularly to discuss
books and
the great literary tradition as well as to workshop the members' own
works-in-progress.

Margaret Howes, Bree Moot guest of honor exemplifies this approach:  She
published a "fan" article in the mid-60s Tolkien Journal, at the height
of the
Tolkien campus craze, and went on to derive inspiration from Tolkien in
writing
(and later performing) her "Tales Told by the Lonely Mountain," some of
which
were published in The Tolkien Scrapbook.  After helping found and
participating
in the Rivendell discussion group for many years, she last year
published her
first novel, The Wrong World, and this year is publishing Autumn World,
a novel
jointly written by five current and former members of the Rivendell
Group.

Other program features at Bree Moot will include author/critic Ruth
Berman
presenting slides on dragon illustration, presentations by Canadian
scholar
William Sarjeant (and fantasy author "Antony Swithin") on "The Shire:
its
bounds, food and farming," and "Geology of Middle-earth," musician David
Emerson
on the Tolkien-Donald Swann collaboration, "The Road Goes Ever On" song
cycle,
and presentations on the Children's Theatre Company dramatizations of
The Hobbit
and on the forthcoming New Line Cinema films, with members of
TheOneRing.net
web-site. Other activities include panel discussions, filk-singing, and
some
displays of fan publications and memorabilia. This is the second time
that Bree
Moot has come to Minnesota.

Cost for this two day reader-oriented conference is $20 advance through
April
15, more at the door.

(Membership in the Concerning Hobbits conference is a separate $30
charge, at
the door).

THE TOLKIEN SEMINAR Leading up to Minicon and Bree Moot 5/Concerning
Hobbits
will be a series of programs held around the Twin Cities approaching our
themes
on a smaller scale. The first of these will be on April 7, at the
Southdale
Public Library, at 1:30 p.m. This will be a panel discussion featuring
experts
on and writers of children's fantasy, FROM HOBBITS TO HARRY POTTER:
Children's
Fantasy since Tolkien

  For more information about Conference plans, contact (612)292-8887, 293
Selby
Ave., St. Paul, MN 55102-1811 or d-lena@....  The Rivendell Group,
which is
sponsoring the conference, is a chartered discussion group of The
Mythopoeic
Society and has also been a recognized student organization at the
University
for the past two decades, studying and discussing fantasy in the Tolkien
tradition each month.


David Lenander
e-mail: d-lena@...
Bree Moot website:  http://www.tc.umn.edu/~d-lena/BreeMoot.html
Concerning Hobbits website:
http://www.stthomas.edu/engl/English/tolkien.htm

The Pedant and the Shuffly is now available from the Mythopoeic Press.
Price is $7 plus $2 postage and handling. Make check payable to the
Mythopoeic Society and mail to: Joan Marie Verba, P O Box 1363,
Minnetonka, MN 55345-0363.

The Pedant and the Shuffly
by John Bellairs
illustrated by Marilyn Fitschen
foreword by Brad Strickland

The evil magician Snodrog ensnares his victims with his inescapable
logic and transforms them into Flimsies (stained handkerchiefs)...until
the kindly sorcerer, Sir Bertram Crabtree-Gore (Esq.) enlists the help
of a magical Shuffly (Latin name: Scuffulans Hirsutus)...and Snodrog
meets his match!

John Bellairs was a one-of-a-kind writer, and The Pedant and the Shuffly
is a one-of-a-kind book. John Bellairs was a truly erudite man, able to
make wicked fun of meaningless erudition, and his unique wit romps
through every page of this book, whether you understand Latin, logic,
linguistics, logorrhea or not. To read it is to realize what a loss his
death was--not simply to fantasy, or to children's literature, but to
the English language, and to the art of storytelling, which he served so
well in the short time he had. I'm truly grateful to have any of John
Bellairs's books back in print. Especially this one. --Peter S. Beagle

"There arose a sound like 10,000 bouzoukis, and from the four known
points
of the compass Flimsies came rustling, turning the night sky into a
gravy-stained wonder of whiteness."
Child or adult, who would not thrill to the cockeyed poesy of that
image? Kids who love wonderful, weird, and wacky stories will snicker
happily over Snodrog's misadventures. Adults who adore James Thurber at
his best, who have whispered Edward Gorey quotes to other adults In The
Know, will welcome this superb reprint from the Mythopoeic Press.
Read it to yourself, or better yet, read it aloud.  It's
entrancing.--Sherwood Smith

Correction: postage is $1.50, so the price is $7 plus $1.50 postage (for
anyone who sends $2, I'll mail it first class).

Make checks payable to the Mythopoeic Society
Send to:
Joan Marie Verba
P O Box 1363
Minnetonka, MN 55345-0363

We have no more suites available at this time.  The options are dorm
rooms (single or double) or housing off site, which is not convenient to
anyone without a car.  We do have plenty of dorm rooms.  There is a
possibility that more suites will become available closer to the
conference date.  If you would like to sign up for a dorm room and put
yourself on a waiting list for a suite (with the understanding that if
you are offered one you will take it), you may do so.  Please be aware
that the "suite-single occupancy" option means one person in each
bedroom of the two-bedroom suite and the "suite-double occupancy" option
means two people in each bedroom of the suite.  The deadline for
purchasing room and board packages is June 30.

Bonnie Rauscher, Registrar

Children's Fantasy Fiction Debates for the Twenty First Century
7th, 8th & 9th January 2002, Bulmershe College, University of Reading UK

An Interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Science Fiction Foundation
and
the Association for Research in Popular Fictions

Advance Call for Papers and Panel Convenors - Abstracts for 25 minute
presentations should be submitted by 1st July 2001 on all areas of
research
concerning children's fantasy fiction across media or popular cultural
forms
e.g. books, graphic novels, radio, television, film, games, story
telling
and toys which will make a contribution to a forum on new approaches and
research perspectives for this field of study.

Please send proposals by August 1st 2001 to Helen Briscoe, Conference
Administrator, MCCA, Liverpool John Moores University, Dean Walters
Building
St James Road, Liverpool L1 7BR UK
E-mail h.briscoe@...
Fax  + 44 151 231 5049
Tel + 44 151 231 5052

Best wishes,
Nickianne Moody

Mythcon 32 (32nd Annual Mythopoeic Conference)
August 3-6, 2001
Clark Kerr Conference Center, Berkeley, CA

Theme: Many Dimensions: Modern Supernatural Fiction

Scholar Guest of Honor: David Llewellyn Dodds
Author Guest of Honor: Peter S. Beagle

Our 2001 conference, Mythcon 32, celebrates the role of Charles
Williams as one of the founders of this currently popular genre,
modern supernatural fiction. Scholar David Llewellyn Dodds is the
editor of two books in Boydell and Brewer's "Arthurian Poets" series,
one on Charles Williams and the other on John Masefield, and a
contributor to The Rhetoric of Vision: Essays on Charles Williams
(edited by Charles Huttar and Peter Schakel). Peter S. Beagle, author
of The Last Unicorn, A Fine and Private Place and many other novels
and short stories, is considered among the finest of modern
fantasists. He is a two-time Mythopoeic Fantasy Award winner, for The
Folk of the Air and Tamsin.
Mythcon 32 will include the usual assortment of conference
programming, including full tracks of scholarly papers, panels, and
much more. Some confirmed specifics:

Panels
* The role of the supernatural in modern fiction
* Modern Arthurian literature and the place of Charles Williams's
Arthurian poetry
* The connection between fantasy literature and popular and folk music
* Children's fantasy in the age of Harry Potter and The Amber Spyglass
* Crystal-ball-gazing at the prospects for Peter Jackson's Lord of
the Rings film

In addition to our Guests of Honor, confirmed panel speakers include
authors Lisa Goldstein, Katherine Kerr, Sherwood Smith, Alexei
Kondratiev. Charles R. Coulombe and many favorite Mythcon regulars.

Special Events and Entertainment
* Philippa Boyens, co-author of the screenplays for the upcoming
Peter Jackson/New Line Lord of the Rings movies, will speak on the
writing and production of the films.
* Saturday evening concert by the folk and early music ensemble
Broceliande
* Sunday evening performance of Charles Williams' surprisingly
delightful play on publishing, The Masque of the Manuscript
* English country dancing, a Bardic Circle, video film program
* and many more activities ...

Guest of honor talks, author readings and autograph sessions,
dealers' room, Mythopoeic Society auction, art show, and our annual
banquet and presentation of Mythopoeic Awards will also be included
in the weekend activites.

Registration is $45 for Mythopoeic Society members ($55 for
non-members) until July 1, 2001. Rates for lodging and meals are also
available; deadline for room and board reservations is June 30, 2001.
Check the conference web site for updates. For more information,
contact:

Mythcon 32
Bonnie Rauscher, Registrar
2231 10th Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
bonnier@...
http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon32.html

PRESS RELEASE: August 6, 2001

2001 Mythopoeic Award Winners

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, Adult Literature

Midori Snyder, The Innamorati (Tor, 2000)

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, Children's Literature

Dia Calhoun, Aria of the Sea (Winslow House, 2000)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies

Tom Shippey, J.R.R.Tolkien: Author of the Century (HarperCollins,
2000; Houghton Mifflin, 2001)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies

Alan Lupack and Barbara Tepa Lupack, King Arthur in America (Boydell
and Brewer, 1999)

The Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature is given to the
fantasy novel, multi-volume, or single-author story collection for
adults published during 2000 that best exemplifies "the spirit of the
Inklings". Reissues (such as paperback editions) are eligible if no
earlier edition was a finalist. Books from a series are eligible if
they stand on their own; otherwise, the series is eligible the year
its final volume appears. The Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's
Literature honors books for younger readers (from "Young Adults" to
picture books for beginning readers), in the tradition of The Hobbit
or The Chronicles of Narnia. Rules for eligibility are otherwise the
same as for the Adult Literature award. The question of which award a
borderline book is best suited for will be decided by consensus of
the committees.

The Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies is given to
books on Tolkien, Lewis, and/or Williams that make significant
contributions to Inklings scholarship. For this award, books first
published during the last three years (1998-2000) are eligible,
including finalists for previous years. The Mythopoeic Scholarship
Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies is given to scholarly books on
other specific authors in the Inklings
tradition, or to more general works on the genres of myth and
fantasy. The period of eligibility is three years, as for the
Inklings Studies award.

The winners of this year's awards were announced at the banquet
during Mythcon XXXII, which was held in Berkeley, California, from
August 3-6th, 2001. A complete list of Mythopoeic Award winners is
available on the Society web site:

http://www.mythsoc.org/awards.html

A complete list of finalists for the literature awards, text of
recent acceptance speeches, and selected book reviews are also listed
in this on-line section. For more information about the Mythopoeic
Awards, please contact the Awards Administrator: Eleanor M. Farrell,
P.O. Box 320486, San Francisco, CA 94132-0486. E-mail:
emfarrell@...

Sayers on Holmes collects the writings of Dorothy L. Sayers on the
subject of Sherlock Holmes. In "Sherlock Holmes and His Influence,"
Sayers examines how the Sherlock Holmes stories affected the genre of
detective fiction.  In "The Dates in 'The Red-Headed League'" she
discusses the contradictory dates in the Holmes story. In "Holmes'
College Career" Sayers determines which university Holmes
attended--Oxford or Cambridge--and speculates on a birth year for
Holmes. "Dr. Watson's Christian Name" represents an effort by Sayers to
solve the problem that Watson is called by different first names in
different Holmesian stories.  "Dr. Watson, Widower," is concerned with
the speculation on Dr. Watson's possible multiple marriages. In
addition, published here for the first time is the script she wrote for
a radio production,  "A Tribute to Sherlock Holmes on the Occasion of
his 100th Birthday," in which the young Lord Peter Wimsey consults
Sherlock Holmes.

This book will give great pleasure to readers of Conan Doyle and Dorothy
L. Sayers.  It contains one special delight: an unpublished story in
which Sherlock Holmes and Lord Peter Wimsey are brought together-not to
be missed! --Barbara Reynolds, author of Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and
Soul, editor of The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers.

How rewarding to unite Sayers' four Sherlockian studies with her
incisive pages on the position of Holmes in detective fiction! How
splendid to bring into print for the first time her delightful Wimseyan
and whimsical tribute to Holmes--the last Lord Peter story she ever
wrote! Alzina Stone Dale's discerning Introduction binds these writings
firmly together and it was a brilliant thought to complete this
invaluable volume with Joe R. Christopher's annotated listing of Sayers'
works. --Christopher Dean, Chairman, The Dorothy L. Sayers Society

Sayers on Holmes is a fine celebration of the happy conjunction of the
two writers who did most to move sensational fiction to a plane where
nowadays the books that have followed their example can be enjoyed with
profit by even the most fastidious of readers. --H.R.F. Keating, crime
novelist and critic, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and
holder of the George N. Dove Award for the Serious Study of Mystery
Fiction

"Dorothy L. Sayers was one of the earliest and best of those who
invented and played the grand game of Sherlockian scholarship, and it is
nice indeed to have her essays on Sherlock Holmes in print again.  It is
even nicer to have available for the first time the script she wrote for
Lord Peter Wimsey's comments for the centenary birthday tribute to
Holmes broadcast by the BBC in 1954."  Peter E. Blau--geologist and
journalist, and the secretary ("Simpson") of The Baker Street
Irregulars.

Sayers on Holmes is $8 (postage and handling $1.50 additional or $4
additional outside North America). Make check payable to the Mythopoeic
Society and send to: Joan Marie Verba, P O Box 1363, Minnetonka, MN
55345-0363.

(This conference also has an Area on Science Fiction and Fantasy; go to
the website below to see all the Areas and their chairs.)

We are enclosing information about this year's call for papers for
Libraries and Popular Culture presentations at the Southwest/Texas
Popular Culture Association
conference, which will meet again in Albuquerque in February of 2002.
We would be very pleased to receive a proposal from you, and we would
also appreciate it if you
would share this information with other colleagues who might be
interested.

If you are interested in some other topic in Popular Culture, please go
to the Association's web site for a list of other Areas and their
chairs, or feel free to contact one of us
about which Area would fit your paper best.

Annual Southwest / Texas Popular Culture Assn.

and

Southwest/ Texas American Culture Assn.

Meeting February 13-17, 2002


Abstract/Proposals due by November 15, 2001

Location:

Albuquerque Hilton Hotel (new location this year!)
1901 University, NE
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102

For more details, visit the Associations web site at

http://www.swtexaspca.org/


The Libraries and Popular Culture area solicits paper proposals from
librarians, graduate students, library school faculty, collectors,
writers, and other aficionados (yes!
including people who use libraries, too!) of popular culture and
libraries!  Also welcome are proposals for slide shows, video
presentations, workshop formats, and panels
organized around common themes.  We encourage proposals related to
archives, museums, and other information settings, too.


Last year's excellent presentations included graphic novels in public
libraries, social marketing in libraries, and Carnegie library
architecture.

Suggested topics for this year:

-profiles of popular culture collections

-reports of research studies in the area of popular culture and
libraries

-marketing popular culture materials to library users

-discussion of intellectual freedom issues related to popular culture
resources

-collection building and popular culture resources

-organization and description of popular culture resources

-technology and popular culture in libraries


and other topics welcome!!!

Send a 200-word abstract to one of the area co-chairs by November 15,
2001.  Also include your complete mailing address, school or other
affiliation, e-mail address,
telephone number, and fax number.


Rhonda Harris Taylor

School of Library and Information Studies

401 West Brooks, Room 120

University of Oklahoma

Norman, OK   73019-6032

PHONE (405) 325-3921

FAX (405) 325-7648

e-mail address:  rtaylor@...



OR



Janet Brennan Croft

Head of Access Services

Bizzell Library

University of Oklahoma

401 West Brooks

Norman, OK  73019-6032

FAX (405) 325-7618

PHONE (405) 325-1918

e-mail address:  jbcroft@...

PLEASE DISTRIBUTE!

The current term of the Mythopoeic Press Secretary expires on December
31, 2002, and the current Mythopoeic Press Secretary will not be running
again for the position. Interested parties are invited to apply for the
position of Mythopoeic Press Secretary and./or distribution manager.
(The Mythopoeic Press Secretary is a Steward position; the distribution
manager is not.) E-mail and web access are required for both positions,
and the current Mythopoeic Press Secretary is willing to train
interested parties. Questions or expressions of interest can be directed
to Joan Marie Verba at verba001@....

Mythopoeic Press Secretary job description

E-mail address and web access required
Work with the editorial board to select material for publication
Work with authors (or author representatives) to make up contracts for
publication
Direct production of books
	 arrange cover art
	 arrange electronic typesetting of book and cover
	 select printer and work with printer
	 solicit endorsements
	 obtain EAN bar code
	 assign ISBNs
Register copyrights
Maintain Mythopoeic Press area of Amazon.com
Maintain Mythopoeic Press area of Books in Print (RR Bowker)
Supervise financial recordkeeping
Do basic publicity

Distribution manager for the Mythopoeic Press job description

E-mail address and web access required
Have easy access to books (in storage area or residence)
Handle orders and inquiries
Make up invoices
Pack and ship books
Keep records of income and expenses