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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 […]

Quick Updates for 2010-10-24

Interview with SFWA member Edward Willett on SciFiGuy.ca (http://is.gd/geRMp). # Feature in the Regina Leader Post newspaper (http://is.gd/geROO) about SFWA member Edward Willett's new YA fantasy, Song of the Sword. #

An update from World Fantasy Convention about programming schedules

Darrell Schweitzer, the program coordinator for this year’s World Fantasy Convention, has been having some trouble sending mass email to the program participants.  He sends his apologies and has asked for assistance in spreading the word. He says that “anyone who has any doubts about their program participation status should simply check the program, which […]

Update on “Iron” David Boyer

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware

More on “Iron” David Boyer

Writer Beware has learned about another David Boyer project in the works–a book called Vast Horizons, to be published in 2011 by Boyer’s own Darkened Doorways Press. Like his Pr…