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“Why SFWA®?” and “What can it do for me?” These two questions have stumped many a SFWA board member, volunteer, and employee throughout our existence. The typical answer had always been, “Bragging rights and oh, the emergency medical fund.” While those two things are definitely beneficial, I’m here to tell you that the Science Fiction […]

Our mission is to inform, support, promote, defend, and advocate for our member writers. Within that mission, there are two rationales which fall broadly into the personal and the societal: The personal These are a few of the ways in which the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association can help you as an individual writer. […]

Forrest J Ackerman
(1916-2008)

Article by Elizabeth Moon on advice for novice writers. Novice writers have to take some responsibility for their own careers. The good information is NOT that hard to find. The novices who don’t find it–and don’t find it repeatedly–are resisting the truth.

James Van Pelt writes on perseverance as a writer.

Helpful tips for new writers to avoid scams in the publishing world.

Eight essential questions answered by the pros for beginning writers.

Lynn Flewelling writes on the basics of query letters.

Eleanor Wood’s speech on the State of Publishing given at the 1997 Nebula Awards weekend