James Tiptree Jr. Award Winners Announced
he 2014 Tiptree Award has two winners: Monica Byrne for her novel The Girl in the Road (Crown 2014) and Jo Walton for her novel My Real Children(Tor 2014).
SFWA Blog
Joanna Russ and Stanley Schmidt: Recipients of the 2015 SFWA Solstice Awards
SFWA is pleased to announce Joanna Russ and Stanley Schmidt as the recipients of the 2015 SFWA Solstice Awards. These awards are granted in recognition of the positive impact and influence the recipients and their work have had on the science fiction and fantasy genres. The awards will be presented at SFWA’s 50th Annual Nebula […]
Libertarian Futurist Society to Honor F. Paul Wilson
Bestselling author F. Paul Wilson will receive a Special Prometheus Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Libertarian Futurist Society.
World Fantasy Awards Judges Seek Art Submissions
The World Fantasy Awards judges are seeking materials to consider in the Artist category.
As always, this seems to be the category with the fewest submissions from either publishers or artists. This category, like the others, is for work published in 2014.
WotF Awards
On Sunday, April 12, 2015 at 6:30PM, the 31st Annual L. Ron Hubbard Presets Writers & Illustrators of the Future Contests Awards Event will be held at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre.
Nebula Awards Deadline to Vote: Today!
Voting for the 2014 Nebula Awards ends today, Monday March 30, 2015 at 11:59pm PDT!!! Active SFWA members, the ballot is here: http://www.sfwa.org/nebula-awards/vote/
Catastrophe and Transformation
by Jason S. Ridler, PhD.
WARNING: This article will not end with me being rich and famous, having a bestseller or a million-dollar movie deal, or even being able to quit my day job. Nor will it instruct you on how to hit those targets. If those are your goals, please, go elsewhere.
Get Some Humble Bundle Goodness!
SFWA is pleased and honored to be one of the beneficiaries of the latest Humble Bundle ebook offering. Said SFWA president Steven Gould, “We are grateful for Humble Bundle’s continued support. I am quite excited, in particular, to see two of my favorite novels reissued, Roger Zelazny’s Damnation Alley and Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower.
In Memoriam: Peggy Rae Sapienza
SFWA Volunteer Peggy Rae Sapienza (1944-2015) died on March 22, about a month after undergoing heart surgery. Sapienza proofread the SFWA Bulletin for several years and also helped out with coordinating the New York Reception since 2008. In 2009, she helped run the Nebula Awards Weekend in Los Angeles and she co-chaired the 2010 Weekend in Cocoa […]
Where’s the Line? On Personal Sharing in Blog Posts and Online
by Amy Sundberg
When giving advice on writing blog posts, James Altucher says, “Bleed in the first line.” He talks about blog writing and bleeding a fair amount, actually, so I always think about bleeding when I write blog posts now. But what does that mean, bleeding on the page, and what is the correct way to do it?
