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by Kate Heartfield In the late 1990s and early 2000s, I was a dabbler in short fiction. I wrote about one story each year. I’d…

Winners and accepters at the 2015 Nebula Awards. (L to R) Steven Gould, Nancy Kress, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Scott Edelman, Ursula Vernon, Larry Niven, Stanley…

I am often asked what is the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. My shorthand answer is that we are an organization of Professional…

Working in Manhattan meant I was in the center of the universe. While working for DC Comics, I was a few blocks from Pocket Books…

  In my freshman year in college, I made a serious mistake. I tried to workshop a science fiction story in my first creative writing…

Daughter of two Cuban political exiles, M.C.A. Hogarth was born a foreigner in the American melting pot and has had a fascination for the gaps…

  I suppose I wanted to be convinced. While at a convention last summer, I attended a panel of SFWA members there to discuss and…

Back in college, when I first set out to be a professional author, the biggest question I wanted answered upfront was: “What does being a…

When I first qualified for SFWA, it had been going through yet another kerfuffle—which one almost certainly doesn’t matter; they tend to come up again…

It happens that I’m writing this blog in an airport, on my way home from a con where I moderated a panel about what SFWA…

When I heard that the SFWA blog editors were asking members to write about their experiences with SFWA, my first thought was that I wasn’t…