Archive for 2010

The Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship Fund eReader Drawing

The Carl Brandon Society, an organization dedicated to racial and ethnic diversity in speculative fiction, will hold a prize drawing of five eReaders to benefit the Butler Scholarship, a fund that sends two emerging writers of color to the Clarion writers workshops annually. In keeping with the Society’s support of literature from and about people […]

Quick Updates for 2010-10-31

@ginger_clark It's on Nov 22 at Planet Hollywood. http://www.sfwa.org/2010/09/invitation-2010-new-york-reception/ in reply to Ginger_Clark # SFWA business meeting is in the Champaign room at 9am on Sat. Come early for food & mimosas. Members only. http://is.gd/gtlFd # SFWA business meeting is in the Champaign room at 9am. Come early for food & mimosas. Members only. http://is.gd/gtlFd […]

Quick Updates for 2010-10-29

Congratulations to SFWA member Cat Sparks who has been named fiction editor for Cosmos magazine. http://bit.ly/957nax # SFWA member @AletheaKontis children's book ALPHAOOPS is featured in USA TODAY. http://tinyurl.com/2g9gcxe #

Reality Check on Aisle Writer Beware

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware

Writer Beware gets a ton of email. Reports of schemes, scams, and fee-charging, of course, but also questions about agents’ and publishers’ reputations, questions about the researching/querying/submitting and requests to deny reality.

Why Join SFWA?

Our mission is to inform, support, promote, defend and advocate for writers of science fiction, fantasy, and related genres. Within that mission, there are two rationales which fall broadly into the personal and the societal: The personal These are few of the ways in which the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association can help you […]

Quick Updates for 2010-10-26

SFWA Member Eljay Daly's story "Bitterdark" is live at Fantasy Magazine this week. http://is.gd/gi4WO # A change in editors at FANTASY MAGAZINE. It will now be edited by SFWA member @johnjosephadams http://6f90.sl.pt # Texas Supreme Court cites Mr.Spock in constitutional ruling. See footnote 21. http://is.gd/gidAa # Congratulations to SFWA member @gailcarriger who has been nominated […]

Star Trek cited by Texas Supreme Court

The Texas Supreme Court when writing their opinion in Robinson v. Crown Cork and Seal cited Mr. Spock, effectively making him a legal authority for interpreting the Texas Constitution. Appropriately weighty principles guide our course. First, we recognize that police power draws from the credo that “the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the […]