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I joined SFWA for the same reason I have joined other professional organizations over the course of my career—it’s important […]

Right about now, many of you are wishing that you never had to deal with about half of SFWA ever

  I first heard about SFWA in my senior year of college, through the Columbia University Science Fiction Society (CUSFS).

In April 1995, I was a barely wet-behind-the-ears writer of science fiction. My first story was scheduled to appear in

Perhaps because of my Midwestern upbringing, perhaps because of circumstances of education, one of my core values has always been

There was a time—less than a year ago, in fact—when I dreamed of joining the SFWA. Among writers of speculative

When I was a very young teen writer, I read articles on the SFWA website as a reward for meeting

A few years ago I attended Viable Paradise, which is a one-week writer’s workshop taught by some of the most