Lightspeed Magazine is SFWA’s newest qualifying market
Today the board of directors of SFWA voted to add Lightspeed Magazine to the list of SFWA qualifying markets. Just celebrating its […]
News, The SFWA Blog
Excluded Categories
Quick Updates for 2011-07-15
Report to members regarding Night Shade Books probationary period. http://is.gd/UOEGvu # Lake People and Other Speculative Tales by SFWA member
News, The SFWA Blog
Report to members regarding Night Shade Books Probationary period
Dear Members, Last year, the SFWA board of directors voted to place Night Shade Books on probation for a period
News, The SFWA Blog
Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop
Funded by the National Science Foundation, Launch Pad, a week-long workshop in astronomy, is underway in Laramie, Wyoming.
The SFWA Blog
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.”
News, The SFWA Blog
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.
News, The SFWA Blog
Finalists for the 10th Annual Sunburst Award Announced
The jury for the tenth annual Sunburst Awards has announced the short-lists for 2011.
News, The SFWA Blog
Quick Updates for 2011-07-07
Member News for Diana Rowland, Jim C. Hines, and David Levine.
Press Book
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
Excluded Categories
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
Information Center, The SFWA Blog
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.
News, The SFWA Blog
Quick Updates for 2011-07-05
Member News for Matthew Johnson and Yasmine Galenorn.