Karl Schroeder will be Writer in Residence at the Merril Collection for three months starting February 1. There will be a little afternoon reception at the main Toronto Reference Library at 789 Yonge Street on Monday, February 1 at 1:30-3:30 PM. (Karl says “Please come, or else I’ll be surrounded by librarians!”) Karl will be conducting three writers workshops over the next few months. He will also critique manuscripts up to 5000 words (so like a dozen flash fiction pieces or half a chapter of a doorstop fantasy, I’m leaning towards the latter). I took a class in writing science fiction that Karl taught at George Brown back in the ’90s. Stephanie Bedwell-Grime was in the class and she’s done amazing things since, as has Karl himself. Contact the Merril Collection library for further details.

USS Hudson Bay (IDIC) is having their regular monthly meeting at the North York Public Library on Saturday, January 30 starting around 1:30 PM. Aside from the usual nice people, a bunch of our filker friends are showing up to perform, including our filk guest of honor Karen Linsley and our filk program person, Sue Jeffers. Guaranteed to be fun.

So we’ll keep the calendar up to date. I’m off to the NASFiC meeting in Raleigh on Friday, but I’ll be back next week. See some of you at First Thursday!