Selected Speeches

• National Book Foundation Distinguished Contribution to American Letters Acceptance Speech, December 2014

• Emperor Has No Clothes Award Acceptance Speech, Freedom from Religion Foundation, Seattle, 7 November 2009

• Maxine Cushing Gray Award Acceptance Speech, Washington State Book Awards, Seattle, October 2006

• “Some Assumptions about Fantasy,” speech at Book Expo America, Chicago, 4 June 2004

• “Where Do You Get Your Ideas From?” Portland Arts & Lectures, October 11, 2000

• “A Left-Handed Commencement Address,” Mills College, May 1983

• 33rd Worldcon Guest of Honor Speech, Aussicon, Melbourne, Australia, August 1975 (video below via FANAC Fan History Project, May 2017)