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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.
Results from the 2010 Nebula Awards (presented 2011).
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Save the World with Science Fiction
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
The Speculative Speakers Service at AboutSF.com provides information for educators and conference organizers who are looking for guest speakers. Members of SFWA, who’d like to talk about SF at schools, meetings, or conferences, are invited to register.
In order to create a guest speaker profile, which you will then be able to edit and manage yourself, please follow these steps:
- Register for an AboutSF account or log in, if you have one already. An active email address is required.
- Log in and enable your AboutSF personal contact form (click the “Edit” tab under “My Account”). This will allow teachers and event organizers to contact you.
- Search Speculation Speakers for your name:
-Does a Guest Speaker Profile already exist with your information? Send us an email (team@aboutsf.com) with your AboutSF account name and the Speaker Name, and we will link the profile to your account so you can edit and manage it.
-No profile? Create one under “My Account.” All new profiles will be reviewed for accuracy and relevancy, so your profile will not immediately show up, but it will be checked and approved within a few weekdays. (In the interim, it will appear ‘whited-out’ in your AboutSF account screen.) - If you have any questions, contact the AboutSF team via email.
AboutSF is a resource center for speculative literature, science fiction, and education. It is a joint project of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and the Science Fiction Research Association, with generous support from Tor Books, The Heinlein Prize Trust, and several individual donors.
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Renovation: Book Drive
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
Renovation, the 2011 World Science Fiction Convention, has announced that Angry Robot, Tor Books and Baen Books are sending donations for a book drive to benefit public libraries in the Reno area.
Renovation would like to encourage other fantasy and science fiction publishers to join this effort by donating recent titles to expand the collections of Washoe County libraries. Books and graphic novels for YA and beginning readers are at the top of the “wish list,” but current adult novels and anthologies would also be welcome.
Depending on the number of books donated, Renovation plans to do two things: 1) help the libraries refresh their genre collections, 2) provide several books per branch as prizes for enthusiastic readers who participate in the library system’s summer reading program.
The Washoe County Library System has 11 branches, including one branch at a senior center. Current science fiction and fantasy books for readers of all ages would therefore be welcome.
For information about how to donate, see the Renovation website.
Because support of the summer reading programs is one of the goals, Renovation asks that publishers ship books as soon as possible.
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Quick Updates for 2011-08-03
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
- You can now hear SFWA member @daviddlevine's story "Zauberschrift" on the PodCastle podcast http://bit.ly/qwCaM2 #
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Solicitation Alerts:
JustFiction! Edition and DIP Publishing House
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer BewareWhen Writer Beware was founded in 1998, it was vanishingly rare for publishers (or agents) to contact aspiring writers to express interest in their work--so rare, in fact, that any sort of unsolicited publisher or agent contact was almost certain to be a scam or a pay-to-play arrangement. For instance, Dorrance Publishing Company--a venerable vanity publisher--regularly solicited writers using copyright registration information (a practice it still follows).
The march of technology has changed things to some degree. With blogs and online writing venues and social media, it's no longer so unlikely that a reputable editor or agent might get a glimpse of an aspiring writer's work and contact them directly. However, while you can no longer automatically dismiss such a contact, it's still not the norm--and there are still plenty of not-necessarily-desirable enterprises that rely on spam-style solicitation to maintain their businesses. Direct contact from a publisher or agent should always be treated with caution, until research can determine whether the company or individual is reputable.
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