Welcome to Our Newest Members!

The end of 2025 and start of 2026 saw a wealth of new authors joining SFWA.

First-Year SFWA Members: We are honored to have you here, and we appreciate just how hard you’ve been working on your craft to become eligible.

Seasoned SFWAns: Please look for these names on our networking spaces, and make our newest members feel welcome:

Notes from the Board & Operations

Welcome, SFWA Member, to our new Singularity. For years, this member benefit has been provided as an e-blast to all SFWA Members in good standing, but we’ve run into a wonderful problem in recent months: too much content! With all that SFWA Members are doing today, both for their own creative careers and as SFWA Volunteers giving back to their communities, we started running into hard limits on how much our old newsletter format could support.

Also, as SFWA deepens its ties with industry peers, we want a place that can better capture all the nomination, application, and voting windows in our genre community. Publishing just once a month made it harder to signal-boost so much of the terrific work going on elsewhere in SFF.

We are keen to keep improving. In the coming months, we will add to the Events Calendar and our User Profile integrations to improve member networking and uplift. We will also still have a monthly e-blast to bring SFWA Members back to this page. You can always find Singularity in your Membership Portal and in the Top Menu under Publications.

Thank you for making this move a necessity, through all your hard work in genre!

We look forward to growing with you in this new era for SFWA member benefits.

Recent Publications

The Latest from Planetside

Committee Updates

Comics

The Comics Committee had a highly successful Constellation weekend, in collaboration with Game Writing, this past December. Events included a riveting workshop on optimizing your next crowdfunding campaign, with Kat Calamia and Phil Falco of Lifeline Comics (curated by Jessica Maison), and a “Hard Knocks & Hidden Gems” joint panel exploring mid-career insights, with A. A. Rubin and Madeleine Holly-Rosing representing the committee.

Next up: Join our first Comics Chat of the year, featuring James B. Emmett, on January 15, 2026 at 10am PST! James is the Senior Editor of Creator Owned Content at Mad Cave Studios. His presentation on working with a comics editor will be followed by an informal Q & A and chat about comics.

Reach out to comics@sfwa.org to learn more!

Contracts

Contracts is always keen to receive sample contracts from authors active in industry. Please submit contracts with personal information redacted to contracts@sfwa.org.

The Contracts Committee continues to seek volunteers with a knowledge of standard contracts for poetry and comics. In December, Contracts worked with the Game Writing and Comics Committees to set preliminary goals for growing our model contract documentation on SFWA.org.

If you are interested in contracts work to support fellow and future SFF writers, please write to Contracts today.

Estates-Legacy

In addition to responding to numerous requests for contact information for the representatives of deceased science fiction and fantasy authors, the Estates Committee initiated an outreach program to notify the representatives of deceased SFF writers whose work may be included in the Anthropic Settlement. This initiative, which is only possible because of the Estates Committee’s database, will assist in updating the representatives’ contact information and responding to questions regarding legacy management.

The Estates-Legacy Program’s co-chairs, Michael Capobianco and Jean Marie Ward, also conducted an Office Hours session on November 16 as part of Quasar, SFWA’s first fall online Nebula event.

The Legacy Committee conducted its quarterly review of the links contained in the Legacy Kit website and PDF. This quarter’s review found two needed changes. These will soon be incorporated into the kit.

Emerging Tech

SFWA extends the warmest “welcome back!” to our Emerging Tech Committee, which will be meeting for the first time in 2026 on Tuesday, January 13.

We have a dynamic range of goals to firm up and tackle this year, and we are so very thankful for all the people who signed up to support this vital initiative going forward.

Game Writing

The Game Writing Committee had a highly successful Constellation weekend, in collaboration with Comics, this past December. Events included a thoughtful workshop on alternatives to crowdfunding, with Wolfgang Baur of (curated by Will McDermott), and a “Hard Knocks & Hidden Gems” joint panel exploring mid-career insights, with John Ryan and Will McDermott representing the committee.

ICYMI: Don’t sleep on our first-ever games and comics creator showcase! Featuring many of our talented game writers and a powerhouse from comics, you’ll be inspired by the storytelling strategies on display here!

History

The History Committee continues to look for new members who have some expertise in conducting interviews. We are looking forward to developing projects in 2026 that allow us to keep legacy knowledge in our genre and industry alive. Interviews with past presidents and Grand Masters are a key component of how we will pursue this work.

If interested, please write to office@sfwa.org for more information.

Poetry

The Speculative Poetry Committee now has a YouTube playlist complete with all back-catalog offerings from its Open Mic series. You can enjoy the following Featured Poets on the channel, and let non-members know that the next addition to the series will be available in late February.

Sumiko Saulson – October 26, 2024
Sultana Raza – March 29, 2025
Marissa Lingen – June 28, 2025
C.S.E. Cooney – September 27, 2025

SFWA Members! You get first and priority access to our next Featured Poet, who will be presenting on January 24, 2026 at the next quarterly Speculative Poetry Open Mic, with event host Gwynne Garfinkle.

Linda D. Addison is the award-winning author of five collections, including The Place of Broken Things, written with Alessandro Manzetti, & How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend, and a recipient of the HWA Lifetime Achievement Award. She is the first African-American recipient of the HWA Bram Stoker Award®, co-editor of Sycorax’s Daughters, an anthology of horror fiction & poetry by African- American women, poetry editor of Space & Time Magazine since 2000, and editor of the 2018 Rhysling Anthology and the HWA StokerCon Anthology 2019. Her work has made frequent appearances over the years on the honorable mention list for Year’s Best anthology. She has a B.S. in Mathematics from Carnegie-Mellon University and currently lives in Arizona. Addison is a founding member of the writer’s group Circles in the Hair (CITH), and a member of HWA, SFWA and SFPA.

Full event details are available here.

Member Events & Campaigns

The times, they are a-changing! SFWA members have readings, signings, panel appearances, related presentations… and crowdfunding campaigns!

Please keep sending your events to communications@sfwa.org with “Singularity” in the subject line. If you would like your crowdfunding campaign included on this page and in our dedicated #crowdfunding Discord channel, send us those details, too. Note: SFWA posts these campaign links as a courtesy, not an endorsement, and work may be removed from the program if a breach of professionalism (e.g., genAI use in art or text materials) is involved.

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Be the First to Join Wu Ying’s Next Journey

This Kickstarter for a project by Tao Wong brings the newest book in Wu Ying’s saga directly to readers with the eBook, audiobook, and signed hardcovers. Backers will help bring the launch to life, get early access to updates, and secure their copies before the book releases on Amazon.

Don’t miss out on this first print run edition – follow along to stay up to date!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/starlitpublishing/immortal-connections

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Brooklyn Books & Booze returns on Tuesday, January 20 at 7pm at Barrow’s Intense Tasting Room at 86th 34th Street, Brooklyn, NY (in Industry City)! Our readers this month are Ellen Kushner, Amanda Cockrell, Caitlin Rozakis and Michael Swanwick. This is a monthly in-person event that showcases four (or more!) authors reading from their recent works. And it’s FREE!

For more information, go to BrooklynBooksBooze.com

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Join Anthony Eichenlaub at ConFusion from January 30 to February 1. You can find him at a number of panels, and a special event with Ursula Whitcher at 12pm local time (Michigan) on Saturday, January 31.

For more information, follow updates at the conference website, Magical ConFusion!

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Join Jennifer R. Povey at Farpoint from January 30 to February 1 in Towson, MD. More on her schedule forthcoming closer to the date!

For more information, follow updates at the conference website, Farpoint Convention 2026!

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Launch events for Lauren C. Teffeau’s Accelerated Growth Environment:

February 22, 2026
7pm (Pacific)
Nook & Cranny Books
5637 University Wy NE Ste 102
Seattle, WA 98105, USA

Join Lauren C. Teffeau and friends at Nook & Cranny Books in Seattle to celebrate the launch of her new book Accelerated Growth Environment, a hopepunk eco-thriller and the inaugural release for Shiraki Press, a new publisher based in the Pacific Northwest.

https://www.nookandcrannybooks.com/
http://laurencteffeau.com/
https://www.shirakipress.com/

March 12, 2026
5:30 pm (Mountain)
Books on the Bosque
6261 Riverside Plaza Lane NW, Suite A-2
Albuquerque, NM 87120

Lauren C. Teffeau will be reading and signing at her local independent bookstore Books on the Bosque in Albuquerque on March 12 to celebrate the launch of her new book Accelerated Growth Environment, a hopepunk eco-thriller and the inaugural release for Shiraki Press.

https://www.booksonthebosque.com/
http://laurencteffeau.com/
https://www.shirakipress.com/

Industry Peer News

Volunteer Calls

One of the best parts of being an accomplished creator is being able to give back to your community. If you have ever chosen to do so through SFWA, thank you. If you are doing so right now? AMAZING. You’re the best! And if you would like to start volunteering, we have a series of open calls available with our sign-up form here.

Please also look out for opportunities with the Nebula Awards Conference in June!