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Perceiving the Wind: Finding Magic in the Mundane
by Austin Conrad As advice, “write what you know” is nearly as hackneyed as “show, don’t tell.” Both pieces of advice are essentially correct, but writers hear them so often we don’t really process...
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Culture: Moving Beyond Set Dressing
by Kanishk Tantia This essay is the fifth of eight in the Publishing Taught Me: A SFWA Anthology Project. The first story I ever wrote was unabashedly my own: written with unfiltered childlike...
View ArticleSFWA Announces the Winners of the 59th Annual Nebula Awards
June 8, 2024 – The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) is pleased to announce the winners of the 59th Annual Nebula Awards®. These awards are given to the writers of the most...
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How to Rewrite a Story for a Different Call
By Dannye Chase So you’ve got a solid story and a perfect publication. The problem? They don’t quite match up. Have no fear! If you wrote it, you can unwrite it, and then rewrite it for that sweet new...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Top Tips from the INDIE FILES
By SFWA Publications Crew Independent publishing can feel as daunting as it is empowering. Monthly at the SFWA Blog, the INDIE FILES has offered tips and insights to help authors taking this route to...
View ArticleResults of the 2024 SFWA Officer Elections
Full SFWA members had the opportunity to vote last spring for 2024 candidates for the SFWA Board of Directors. We’d like to thank all our members who took the time to vote. The SFWA Board and staff...
View ArticleIn Memoriam: John Maddox Roberts
John Maddox Roberts (25 June 1947 – 23 May 2024), also writing as Mark Ramsay, was a prolific and best-selling science fiction, fantasy, historical, and mystery writer over the course of thirty-five...
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Gamifying Your Writing Goals
By Gideon P. Smith We all have writing dreams, but they often remain dreams without solid productivity goals to turn them into reality. Unfortunately, as with adhering to the Prime Directive or making...
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The Poet’s Toolbox: Three Strategies for a Vivid Prose Voice
By Ursula Whitcher Writing poetry allows for rapid experimentation with language on a fine scale. Though there’s lots of mystique around being a poet, the key genre expectation is close attention:...
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The Ballad of the Slush Reader What I’ve Learned (And What I Want to Know)...
by Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas Introduction – In Which I Rant a Little First, let me get this off my chest; I don’t believe that reading slush can make anyone a better writer. I say this because...
View ArticleSFWA Market Report For July
Welcome to the July edition of the SFWA Market Report. Please note: Inclusion of any venue in this report does not indicate an official endorsement by SFWA. Those markets included on this list pay at...
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Phoning It In: Finding Time to Write in Unexpected Places
By Priya Chand Editorial note: This piece is the first in an occasional series titled “Writing By Other Means”, in which authors share personal experiences and industry intel around different...
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Discovery Writing Through Gaming
by Austin Conrad How do you move forward when stuck on telling a story? Sometimes the best way is to play your story at the gaming table. A roleplaying game’s collaborative creativity is a fun and...
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Whoops, I Wrote a Story: How to Make App Addictions Work for Your Writing
by Marie Croke Editorial note: This piece is part of an occasional series titled “Writing by Other Means,” in which authors share personal experiences and industry intel around different production...
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A Brief History of SFWA: The Beginning (Part 1)
By Michael Capobianco Editor’s note: This piece is the first in a two-part overview of the first year of SFWA, curated by a member of the organization’s History Committee. Part 2 will be linked here...
View ArticleSFWA Market Report For August
Welcome to the August edition of the SFWA Market Report. Please note: Inclusion of any venue in this report does not indicate an official endorsement by SFWA. Those markets included on this list pay at...
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A Brief History of SFWA: The Beginning (Part 2)
by Michael Capobianco Editor’s note: This piece is the second in a two-part overview of the first year of SFWA, curated by a member of the organization’s History Committee. Part 1 is available here....
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Dance the Exotic Dance for Me!
by Yoon Ha Lee When I was a kid in the 1980s and 1990s, I adored classical mythology, Arthurian mythology, the Cthulhu mythos. I was the weirdo who holed up in the library reading Tacitus, Plato, and...
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(Temporarily) Computer-Free Writing
by N. R. M. Roshak Editorial note: This piece is part of an occasional series titled “Writing by Other Means,” in which authors share personal experiences and industry intel around different production...
View ArticleIn Memoriam: M. J. Engh
M. J. Engh (26 January 1933 – 11 July 2024), also writing as Jane Beauclerk and Mary Jane Engh, was a librarian, scholar, teacher, editor and writer. She wrote short fiction, non-fiction, and...
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