Ann & Jeff VanderMeer will be over this side of the pond for Worldcon, the Edinburgh Festival and Eurocon. Before they go home they have kindly agreed to do a couple of events in the South West. One is at Mr B’s on August 26th, but before that they are stopping off in Bristol to talk to me about short fiction.

This event is being put on in conjunction with the Bristol Festival of Literature, and with Small Stories, a local group of writers. Most of the work putting this together has been done by Pete Sutton, for which I am very grateful. Wizard’s Tower is on board as a co-sponsor, as is BristolCon.

If you are in the Bristol area and have any interest at all in writing short fiction you should attend this event. I note that Jeff’s Wonderbook has won the BSFA and Locus Awards for non-fiction (and is getting my vote for the Hugo). Also Ann, as well as being a Hugo-winning editor, is currently an acquiring editor for Tor.com, which I believe is the best-paying SF&F market around right now. Please book up, I expect this to be very popular and I want to know well in advance if we look like having space problems. It is free, and therefore very well worth it.