Planetside: The Online Magazine of SFWA

Planetside: The Online Magazine of SFWA

Planetside: The Online Magazine of SFWA

On Trauma-Informed Writing

by Sarah Gailey Note: Over the next several weeks, the SFWA Blog will be running articles, including this one, that first appeared in October 2021 in our SFWA member publication,  The Bulletin #216. We’re pleased to share these instructive and thought-provoking pieces with the wider speculative fiction community. –SFWA Publications I’ve never believed in endings. […]

Legal Affairs Alert on the New Zealand National Library

UPDATE 12/3/2021:  The NZ National Library has announced that they will be reconsidering their plans for this archival deal “in light of concerns raised by the various interested parties, including issues associated with copyright. The National Library will not export any of the OPC until it considered its next steps.” The full press release from […]

SFWA Market Report—November 2021

Welcome to the November edition of the SFWA Market Report. Please note: Inclusion of any market in the report below does not indicate an official endorsement by SFWA. The markets included on this list all pay at least $0.08/word in at least one length category of fiction. New Markets CatsCast Never Whistle At Night Currently […]

In Memoriam: Jim Fiscus

The SFWA Board of Directors, staff, and volunteers are saddened to learn of the sudden and unexpected death of long-time volunteer James W. Fiscus.  Known by his fellow volunteers and peers as Jim, he was an instrumental part of the organization. Setting foot in the SFF landscape in 1986, he published his first story, “A […]

Narrative Worlds Season 2 Debuts 11/21!

We’re pleased to announce that the second season of Narrative Worlds will debut on Sunday, November 21, at 1:00pm Pacific Time!  Part of the ongoing 2021 Nebula Conference Online, this worldbuilding webinar series is hosted by best-selling author and SFWA member Kate Elliott. Her guest for the first episode of Season 2 will be award-winning […]

Sci-Fi Has a Cure Problem

By Ashley Deng I won’t beat around it too much: The context for this essay is our current, global healthcare crisis. Let’s just say that our sci-fi trope of a massive-scale health crisis that can be Fixed With Science has happened to us in the real world. We were all eagerly awaiting the coveted cure–The […]

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