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Nebula Awards Weekend
The Forty-Seventh Nebula Awards Weekend will be held Thursday through Sunday, May 17 to May 20, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia, near Reagan National Airport.
We honor Connie Willis as our Grand Master!
To register, click on “Registration” in the menu to the immediate left. Then scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the “Register” button.
Tours, workshops and panels are available for registered attendees (the number of people who can be accommodated on the tours and workshops is limited.) Active and Associate SFWA members may nominate works, until February 15th, for the awards to be presented at the May 19th Nebula Awards Weekend Banquet. Hour long interviews and readings will be recorded by Jim Freund for his Hour of the Wolf radio show broadcast on WBAI (99.5FM) in New York City.
Jon Williams is our Toastmaster (he will also conduct a half-day Writers Workshop on Friday morning.) Mike Fincke is our Keynote Speaker.
The Mass Autographing Session on Friday, May 18th will be followed by a reception to honor the nominees and other honorees.
You don’t have to be a nominee, a member of SFWA, or even a writer to participate in the weekend. Registration for the 2012 Nebula Awards Weekend is open now. The cost for the Nebula Awards Banquet is $75.00 per person. The cost to register is $50.00 for a SFWA Member and $60.00 for a non-SFWA Member until February 29, 2012. Rates for registration will be higher as the date of the event draws closer.
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Archive for December, 2009
Internet Review of Science Fiction closes doors
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Longtime review and news site IROSF announced today that they would be shutting down in February.
Seattle, WA, 12/30/2009 – After six years of publication the Internet Review of Science Fiction (irosf.com) will cease operations after the February, 2010 issue. Publisher L Blunt “Bluejack” Jackson and Editor Stacey Janssen expressed their gratitude to all the subscribers, contributors, authors, and especially the volunteers who made IROSF such a success since its first issue in January, 2004.
Continuous financial shortfalls added to the challenges of publishing IROSF, and Jackson has expressed his intent to turn to new challenges related to the economy and logistics of Internet publishing. “What we learned with IROSF and AEon Speculative Fiction was that neither traditional nor community-driven economic models met our needs, and that the complexity of managing a distributed volunteer pool burned people out, despite a steady increase in revenue and readership. Our plan is to use this knowledge, and the ready availability of new distribution channels, to create the kind of environment that would have empowered the editors to achieve the success that IROSF’s superb content always deserved.”
Tags: IROSF
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Nalo Hopkinson offers mentorships in 2010
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Beginning in February 2010:
One on One Advanced Level Fiction Writing Mentorships in the Literature of the Fantastic (fantasy, science fiction, magical realism, etc.)
with Nalo Hopkinson
The first term of writing mentorships I offered is going well, (November 2009 to January 2010) and is coming to an end, so I’ve decided to undertake a second term. Via email, I’ll be conducting one-on-one mentorships in writing fantasy and science fiction. These are independent mentorships (i.e. offered privately by me, not through an educational institution). (more…)
Tags: Nalo Hopkinson, workshop
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Quick Updates for 2009-12-31
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Resources
- Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry on "Tricky Linguistics"
Member News
- SFWA member Matthew Johnson offers his Aurora-eligible story "The Coldest War" (Asimovs, Feb 09) online.
- Welcome to SFWA's newest Associate member, Beth Cato! Her story "Biding Time" is in Pedestal Magazine.
Tags: Beth Cato, Matthew Johnson, twitter
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Quick Updates for 2009-12-29
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
Member News
- Welcome to SFWA’s newest Active member, Harry Connolly author of “Child of Fire.”
- SFWA Active and Associate members, remember to do your Nebula Nominations by Feb 15th.
- New guidelines announced for Clarkesworld, including high max word count.
Tags: Clarkesworld, Harry Connolly, twitter
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“Diana Comet” by Sandra McDonald
Monday, December 28th, 2009
“Diana Comet” by Sandra McDonald
March 2009, Strange Horizons
Tags: Diana Comet, McDonald, Sandra McDonald
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Quick Updates for 2009-12-27
Sunday, December 27th, 2009
- @david_n_wilson Yes, your membership expired several years ago. in reply to David_N_Wilson #
Tags: twitter
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Quick Updates for 2009-12-26
Saturday, December 26th, 2009
Member News
- Welcome to SFWA’s 1200th Active member Charlene Teglia author of “Wicked Hot!”
- SFWA member David D. Levine has been selected for Crew 88 of the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah.
Industry News
- World Fantasy Awards 2010 Judges Named!
Tags: Charlene Teglia, David D. Levine, twitter
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The Little Christmas Tree: A Cautionary Tale
Friday, December 25th, 2009
How the dystopian apocalypse really begins…
Tags: video
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Quick Updates for 2009-12-25
Friday, December 25th, 2009
- RT @sfscope: World Fantasy Awards 2010 Judges Named: http://tinyurl.com/yh9b4ze #
- Welcome to SFWA's 1200th Active member @charleneteglia author of "Wicked Hot!" http://www.charleneteglia.com #
- @CharleneTeglia I'm glad you just did it. Welcome to SFWA! in reply to CharleneTeglia #
- @laurenbeukes We'd love to have you whenever you can join. The economy sucks right now. in reply to laurenbeukes #
- @laurenbeukes Yay! in reply to laurenbeukes #
- @jasonsanford We have 120 new members since turning the new website on. in reply to jasonsanford #
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Quick Updates for 2009-12-24
Thursday, December 24th, 2009
Member News
- Victoria Strauss: From the Electronic Frontier Foundation: Which companies respect ebook readers' privacy
- Congratulations to SFWA member Caren Gussoff, winner of the SLF's 2009 Gulliver Travel Research Grant
- We have 1199 Active members. Who will be number 1200?
Tags: Caren Gussoff, twitter, victoria strauss
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