What is SFWA?
Founded in 1965, SFWA is an organization for published authors and industry professionals in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, and related genres. Click below for more information.
News and Views
Volunteers, Watch Out for Those Invisible Expectations!
by Marie Croke Editor’s note: This piece is part of the series Volunteer Networks: The Heart of SFF, where writers discuss the rewards and challenges of speculative fiction volunteer work. Read twenty-five stories a month. Copy-edit four stories an issue. Attend biweekly meetings. These are quantifiable tasks. They can be scheduled and carefully planned around. […]
Decolonizing History in Brazilian SFF
by Lívian Bonato Editor’s note: This piece is part of a rolling series, Writing from History, in which creators share professional insights related to the work of using historical elements in fictional prose. Despite many recent additions to global science fiction and fantasy (SFF), Eurocentrism is still a challenge in many fictional universes. In post-colonial […]
In Memoriam: Laurel Amberdine
Laurel Amberdine (1970–21 January 2025) was a writer, interviewer, and genre editor. She worked for Locus Magazine for ten years, and was an assistant editor for Lightspeed magazine. Amberdine was known for her kind and thoughtful interviews, yet she also loved to write, both prose and poetry. Her short fiction story, “Airship Hope” was published […]
In Memoriam: Howard Andrew Jones
Howard Andrew Jones (19 July 1968–16 January 2025) was a beloved sword-and-sorcery editor, reader, scholar, and writer, known for works such as the Ring-Sworn trilogy and the Chronicles of Hanuvar series. In 2016, the Black Gate: Adventures in Fantasy Literature website won a World Fantasy Award, which the winner, John O’Neill, attributes almost entirely to […]
Preservation Guidance for Authors Planning to Donate Their Personal Papers to Archives
by Monica Louzon Writers have a unique power: With our words, we transport our readers to new worlds. It doesn’t matter whether we write stories or poems, or whether we write long or short works—the end result remains the same. As we exercise that power throughout our lifetimes, we will generate countless documents and scraps […]
