Video Pick of the Week: Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories
The inimitable Kurt Vonnegut offers a chalkboard lecture: “There’s no reason why the simple shapes of stories can’t be fed into computers.”
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Campbell and Sturgeon Awards Announced
Ian McDonald’s The Dervish House has won the Campbell Award for the best science-fiction novel of the year, and Geoffrey A. Landis’s “The Sultan of the Clouds” has won the Sturgeon Award for the best short science fiction of the year.
Finalists for the 10th Annual Sunburst Award Announced
The jury for the tenth annual Sunburst Awards has announced the short-lists for 2011.
Publishing Beyond the Grave
Fellow authors, do you have a loved one who was a writer too, but sadly passed over into the Great Beyond with their poems or prose unpublished?
Quick Updates for 2011-07-07
Member News for Diana Rowland, Jim C. Hines, and David Levine.
The Endeavour Award Finalists and Judges
Portland – Four novels and a collection of short stories are finalists for the 2011 Endeavour Award. The 2011 will be the thirteenth year for the Award, which comes with an honorarium of $1,000.00. The winner will be announced November 11, 2011, at OryCon, Oregon’s major science fiction convention. The finalists are: “A Cup of […]
Quick Updates for 2011-07-06
Happy release day to SFWA member @dianarowland and her novel My Life as a White Trash Zombie. # Happy Release day to SFWA member @jimchines and his novel SNOW QUEEN. # @nkjemisin Not satire, but it is a guest post by Terry Bisson, so reflects how he approaches writing short fiction. #
Guest Post: 60 Rules for Short SF (and Fantasy)
A “mainstream” short story can be about anything: a mood, a character, a setting, even a flashy writing style. A genre (SF or fantasy) short story is about an idea. The fictional elements (character, plot, setting, etc) are only there to dramatize the idea. Here are the rules for the SF (or Fantasy) short story.
Quick Updates for 2011-07-05
Member News for Matthew Johnson and Yasmine Galenorn.
Happy 4th of July
SFWA wishes you a fabulous Fourth filled with “squibs, crackers, backarappers, sparklers, torches, dwarf-candles, elf-fountains, goblin-barkers and thunder-claps.”
