Press Release #16

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SPECULATIVE LITERATURE FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES THE 2007 GULLIVER TRAVEL RESEARCH GRANT 

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SPECULATIVE LITERATURE FOUNDATION
PO Box 1693, Dubuque, IA 52004-1693

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<a href="mailto:info&#64;speculativeliterature.org">info&#64;speculativeliterature.org</a> - <a href="http://www.speculativeliterature.org/">http://www.speculativeliterature.org/</a>

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For Immediate Release: July 8, 2007

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SPECULATIVE LITERATURE FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES THE 2007 GULLIVER TRAVEL RESEARCH GRANT 

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The 2007 Gulliver Travel Research Grant will be open for applications from July 1st, 2007 to September 30th, 2007. The grant is not currently available for academic research, though we hope to offer such funds in the future. The SLF is currently offering one $600 travel grant annually, to be used to cover airfare, lodging, and/or other travel expenses.
 
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The Gulliver Travel Research Grant is awarded to assist writers of speculative literature, including fiction, drama, poetry, and creative nonfiction, in their research. (The Gulliver Travel Research Grant is only awarded to writers of speculative fiction, poetry, drama, or creative nonfiction. The speculative genre typically includes science fiction, fantasy, slipstream, and sometimes horror)
 
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The Gulliver Travel Research Grant, formerly the Speculative Literature Foundation Travel Research Grant, was renamed in November 2006 at the request of the grant sponsor. Gulliver, a character in the 1726 story "Gulliver's Travels" written by Jonathan Swift, represents one of the earliest examples of fantasy travel.

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Full details can be found on the SLF website at <a href="http://www.speculativeliterature.org/Awards/SLFTravelGrant.php">here</a>

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PR Contact: Ashley Gronek <a href="mailto:press&#64;speculativeliterature.org">press&#64;speculativeliterature.org</a>

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The Speculative Literature Foundation is a volunteer-run, non-profit
organization dedicated to promoting the interests of readers, writers,
editors and publishers in the speculative literature community.

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"Speculative literature" is a catch-all term meant to inclusively span the
breadth of fantastic literature, encompassing literature ranging from hard
and soft science fiction to epic fantasy to ghost stories to folk and fairy
tales to slipstream to magical realism to modern mythmaking -- any
literature containing a fabulist or speculative element.

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More information about the Speculative Literature Foundation is available
from its web site (<a href="http://www.speculativeliterature.org/">http://www.speculativeliterature.org/</a>) or by writing to
<a href="mailto:info&#64;speculativeliterature.org">info&#64;speculativeliterature.org</a>.

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