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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. Parking is available nearby.
We honor Connie Willis as our Grand Master!
To register, go to the Nebula Awards Weekend page and then 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.)
Ship packages home via UPS Sunday from 11:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. at the hotel.
The Mass Autographing Session on Friday, May 18th will be followed by a reception to honor the nominees and other honorees.
Our Toastmaster, Walter Jon Williams, will conduct a half-day Writers Workshop, emphasizing structure and plotting, on Friday morning. Astronaut Mike Fincke is our Keynote Speaker.
You don’t have to be a nominee, a member of SFWA, or even a writer to participate in the weekend. There will be seating in the rear of the room for those who wish to see the ceremony but were not at the banquet. The cost to register is $100.00 for non-SFWA members and $90.00 for SFWA members from now on and at the door. Banquet tickets and memberships are no longer available unless prior arrangements have been made.
Additional Questions? Contact Us.
A Hi-Res version (1059K) of this flyer is available for download and distribution.
Results from the 2010 Nebula Awards (presented 2011).
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President
John Scalzi
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John Scalzi is a New York Times bestseller and the author of the popular “Old Man’s War” series of novels and several nonfiction works, including the Hugo-winning essay collection Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded. He is also the Creative Consultant for the Stargate: Universe television series, shown in the United States on the Syfy Channel, and a columnist on film and science fiction for AMC’s FilmCritic.com site. Scalzi’s long-running personal blog, Whatever, receives up to 40,000 visitors daily and is home to the “Big Idea” feature series, in which writers discuss the big ideas behind their latest works. Scalzi lives in Ohio with his wife and child. |
Vice-President
Mary Robinette Kowal
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Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of Shades of Milk and Honey (Tor, 2010). In 2008 she received the Campbell Award for Best New Writer and has been nominated for the Hugo and Locus awards. Her stories appear in Asimov’s, Clarkesworld, and several Year’s Best anthologies. Mary, a professional puppeteer, also performs as a voice actor, recording fiction for authors such as Elizabeth Bear, Cory Doctorow and Kage Baker. She lives in Portland, OR with her husband Rob and over a dozen manual typewriters. Visit www.maryrobinettekowal.com |
Secretary
Robert J. Howe
 Robert J. Howe has been a SFWA member since 1988. He has published short fiction in Salon.com, the magazines Analog, Black Gate, Electric Velocipede, Pulphouse, Weird Tales; the anthology Newer York, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of the journalism program at Brooklyn College, and the Clarion Writer’s Workshop at Michigan State University. Howe is a native of Brooklyn, New York, and works in higher education communications. |
Treasurer
Bud Sparhawk
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Regional Directors
Eastern Regional Director
Catherynne Valente
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Catherynne M. Valente is the author of over a dozen works of fiction and poetry, including Palimpsest, The Orphan’s Tales series, Deathless, and New York Times bestselling The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Own Making. She is the winner of the Andre Norton Award, the Tiptree Award, the Mythopoeic Award, the Rhysling Award, and the Million Writers Award. She has been nominated for the Hugo, Locus, and Spectrum Awards, the Pushcart Prize, and was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award in 2007 and 2009. She lives on an island off the coast of Maine with her partner, two dogs, and enormous cat.
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South/Central Regional Director
Lee Martindale
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Lee Martindale is a writer of short fiction and editor of anthologies. Since joining SFWA in 1999, she has served in numerous volunteer capacities, most recently as Mediation Specialist of the Grievance Committee and as SFWA Ombudsman. She and her husband live in Plano, TX, where she keeps friends and fans up to date at http://www.HarpHaven.net. |
Western Regional Director
Jim Fiscus
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Jim Fiscus is a Portland, Oregon writer and photographer. He has been a professional writer for over two decades, reporting on medicine, politics, business, and law. His first science fiction sale, in 1983, was a story that made practical use of his MA in Middle East history. |
Overseas Regional Director
Sean Williams
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Sean writes prolifically across the field of speculative fiction, for adults, young adults and children, and enjoys the odd franchise, too. His work has won awards, debuted at #1 on the New York Times hardback bestseller list, and been translated into numerous languages. He lives with his family in Adelaide, South Australia. For more information, please visit www.seanwilliams.com. |