Anyone in the Southern Cali Region Feb 12-13th, 2014 should try to attend:
"Astro-Blackness: Remaking and Remixing Black Identity"
http://jhameia.tumblr.com/post/71988046187/astro-blackness-remaking-and-re-mixing-black-identity
First/Beta readers are wanted over at Strange Horizons online magazine.
http://www.strangehorizons.com/Jobs.shtml#FirstReader
Lightspeed Magazine is also looking for First/Beta readers
http://www.johnjosephadams.com/blog/2014/01/02/lightspeed-is-looking-for-a-few-good-slush-readers/
Being a First/Beta/Slushpile reader is a great opportunity to see what gets submitted to magazines, learn the publishing business from the ground floor, and most important, become a better writer. I have two friends who are/were beta readers and they told me it has improved their own writing just by reading other work.
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