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Half a century ago, Belgian Zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans first codified cryptozoology in his book On the Track of Unknown Animals.

The Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) are still on the track, and have been since 1992. But as if chasing unknown animals wasn't enough, we are involved in education, conservation, and good old-fashioned natural history! We already have three journals, the largest cryptozoological publishing house in the world, CFZtv, and the largest cryptozoological conference in the English-speaking world, but in January 2009 someone suggested that we started a daily online magazine! The CFZ bloggo is a collaborative effort by a coalition of members, friends, and supporters of the CFZ, and covers all the subjects with which we deal, with a smattering of music, high strangeness and surreal humour to make up the mix.

It is edited by CFZ Director Jon Downes, and subbed by the lovely Lizzy Bitakara'mire (formerly Clancy), scourge of improper syntax. The daily newsblog is edited by Corinna Downes, head administratrix of the CFZ, and the indexing is done by Lee Canty and Kathy Imbriani. There is regular news from the CFZ Mystery Cat study group, and regular fortean bird news from 'The Watcher of the Skies'. Regular bloggers include Dr Karl Shuker, Dale Drinnon, Richard Muirhead and Richard Freeman.The CFZ bloggo is updated daily, and there's nothing quite like it anywhere else. Come and join us...

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Wednesday, July 10, 2019

THERE IS A NEW YEARBOOK UNDERWAY

As regular readers of my burblings here and elsewhere will know, we have been in the wars a bit recently. There has been a string of health problems within the Downes family that have got in the way of our doing all sorts of things that we would have liked to have done. This, sadly, has included much of the planned CFZ publishing programme.

But it’s not all doom and gloom. Together with my secretary Olivia, my wife Corinna, and Richard Muirhead, we are working on the first CFZ Yearbook since 2016.

For those of you who are not aware, the CFZ Yearbook – a series which started in 1995 – is a forum for research papers, expedition reports, and essays on the subject of cryptozoology and allied disciplines, too long to fit in our journal, Animals & Men.

So, ladies and gentlemen, it is time for all good folk to come to the aid of the party. I am actively soliciting contributions for the yearbook, and would very much like to hear from you if you have something that you would like us to consider. There is no upper word limit, but we ask for a minimum length of about 1500 words, although this – as with many things in life – is negotiable.

Can your submissions please be in the form of Word or RTF document, with pictures kept separate rather than embedded in the text? Also, can people please not embed footnotes or endnotes? Such notes should be included within the body text.

I look forward to hearing from you.
Jon
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