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Project Scarlet Eagle
by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley As a science fiction writer, I’m always on the lookout for cutting edge technologies that might spark an idea for a story. This time, an initiative called Project Scarlet...
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Guest Post: Amazon Bites Author
by Mary Rosenblum One of my clients, Brad Bayley, has his gaze firmly fixed on quitting the day job for good and has been putting a LOT of time, money, and effort into launching his career. He works...
View Article2016 World Fantasy Finalists Announced
World Fantasy Awards Final ballot announced: LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT David G. Hartwell Andrzej Sapkowski NOVELS Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant (Knopf/Faber & Faber) N. K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season...
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Prometheus Awards Announced
News from the Libertarian Futurist Society: Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves wins Prometheus Award for Best Novel, Donald M. Kingsbury’s Courtship Rite to be inducted into Prometheus Hall of Fame. The...
View ArticleSFWA to Admit Game Writers Starting August 1st, 2016
Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America to Admit Game Writers Writers who help create narratives for video games, table-top roleplaying games and card games will be eligible to be admitted to...
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SFWA Admits Game Writers, All Heck Breaks Loose, Film at 11
by Cat Rambo So this morning one of the items that’s been hovering in the wings for a couple of weeks now finally went out, which was the announcement of the game writing qualifications. Since there...
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Ten Thoughts About the Business Side of Writing
by Russell Galen 1. As soon as you can put your hands on $3,000, go to Vanguard.com and put that money in the Vanguard 500 Index Fund. Until you’re 65, take 20% of every check you receive for your...
View ArticleSFWA Welcomes Diabolical Plots
Diabolical Plots, self-described as “a Sci-fi/Fantasy zine that covers virtually every media related to the genre from books to movies to video games” is now a SFWA Qualified market. Payment: Eight...
View ArticleSFWA Grant Program: Call For Submissions
SFWA Grant Program SFWA’s mission as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization to promote, educate, defend, and advocate for our fellow writers and the fantasy and science fiction genre overall led us to...
View ArticleSteam Press Flash Fiction Competition Announced
Steam Press, a New Zealand publisher, is running a world-wide competition for short-short science fiction stories. All stories will be considered for possible publication, and the winning entry will be...
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The Pleasures of Anthology Editing
by Susan Forest For the past six years, in addition to my writing, I have been editing novels, both for a Canadian small press and freelance, and have found unique rewards and challenges in this work....
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Diverse Works Sought by Andre Norton Jury
A note from the 2016 Andre Norton Award Jury: We’re well into our reading for this year’s award, and we’d like to remind everyone writing for younger readers that whether it’s YA, middle-grade, or...
View ArticleKickstarter Visits the SFWA Suite!
If you’re going to be at MidAmeriCon II on Aug 20th, be sure to check out the SFWA’s Meet-and-Greet with Margot Atwell, Kickstarter’s Publishing Lead. Kickstarter is a powerful platform where...
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Teaching Stuff: At Play With the Universe
by Richard J. Chwedyk When I started “teaching” the Science Fiction Writing Workshop for undergrad and grad students at Columbia College Chicago, I had no idea what my priorities should be. There’s an...
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News from Libertarian Futurist Society: MileHiCon 48, Colorado’s largest annual sf convention, will host the LFS awards ceremony presenting the Special Prometheus Award for Lifetime Achievement to L....
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Try Writing Comics
by Sara Ryan I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this blog, you’re a writer. But I won’t assume anything about your experience with comics. Maybe you’re a longtime comics fan. Maybe you have a...
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In Memoriam: Gene Wilder
Nebula Award-winning screenwriter and actor Gene Wilder (b. 1933) died on August 29. Wilder portrayed Dr. Frankenstein in Mel Brooks’s comedy Young Frankenstein as well as the fox in The Little Prince...
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SFWA “Star Project” Awarded to 2017 Young Explorer’s Adventure Guide
SFWA is pleased to announce that a “SFWA Star Project” contribution has been awarded to the 2017 Young Explorer’s Adventure Guide by Corie and Sean Weaver of Dreaming Robot Press. This science fiction...
View ArticleSFWA Market Report for September
Welcome to SFWA’s latest pro-rate Market Report. Please note: Inclusion of any market in the report below does not indicate an official endorsement by SFWA. ••• Special Note to SFWA Members: Jason...
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SFWA Statement Regarding the Fireside Fiction Company Special Report
by Cat Rambo People have been asking that SFWA give an official response to the Fireside Report on the scarcity of black authors in science fiction and fantasy as well as say what it is that we’re...
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