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A Dispatch from the Norton Jury
The Norton jury is beginning its work of reviewing the field of young adult genre literature for 2010, and would like to invite authors to help us obtain your eligible works. The jury will add deserving but overlooked works to…
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…
Quick Updates for 2010-11-01
Reality Check on Aisle Writer Beware
Quick Updates for 2010-10-27
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…
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…
Quick Updates for 2010-10-25
Quick Updates for 2010-10-23
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…
Update on “Iron” David Boyer
Quick Updates for 2010-10-21
Cold Iron: David Boyer, Plagiarist
Quick Updates for 2010-10-17
SFWA annual business meeting
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America will hold this year’s annual business meeting on Saturday, October 30th, at the 2010 World Fantasy Convention in Columbus, OH. Room: To be announced Schedule: 8:30-9:00am Light continental breakfast 9:00-10:00am Business meeting (Note: The business…
Would That It Were is SFWA’s newest qualifying market
Today the board of directors of SFWA voted to add the magazine Would That It Were retroactively to the list of SFWA qualifying markets. When Would That It Were began publishing in 2000, online magazines were in their infancy. The market…
Quick Updates for 2010-10-16
Quick Updates for 2010-10-15
Quick Updates for 2010-10-14
Quick Updates for 2010-10-13
Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner announce Betrayer of Worlds
Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner announce Betrayer of Worlds The Fleet of Worlds saga continues … Fleeing the supernova chain reaction at the galactic core, the cowardly Puppeteers of the Fleet of Worlds have — just barely — survived….
Quick Updates for 2010-10-12
Alert: Website with Copyrighted works (in Spanish)
SFWA members with Spanish language editions may want to check out this Web site: http://book0dd.blogspot.com/ Which is offering quite a large number of books for download. We’ve verified that the site is offering what looks like homemade OCR’d versions of…