Does anyone here have a report or thread on the Nebula Awards winners? They were announced on Saturday, but I don't see a list anywhere yet.

#sfwa #sffh #NebulaAwards

"Dune author Frank Herbert (1920-1986) is the 2025 SFWA’s Infinity Award honoree.

Now in its third year, the SFWA Infinity Award serves to highlight the achievements of creators who did not live long enough to be considered for the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, but who achieved a distinct and tremendous legacy in science fiction and fantasy."

https://file770.com/sfwa-honors-frank-herbert-with-2025-infinity-award/

#SFF #Writers #FrankHerbert #SFWA #Books #Stories

If you're attending the SFWA Nebula Conference in Kansas City this week/weekend, come on by the Live Action Slush event on Saturday from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM. Yours truly will be among the former or current slush readers sharing our totally subjective opinions on what does or doesn't hook us when we're first-reading fiction submissions!

Also I'm one of the authors in a networking reception from 8 PM - 11 PM on Friday. This one's open to the public, so swing by if you're in KC and want a signed book or a high five!

#NebulaAwards #nebulaconference #KansasCity #SFWA #scifi

SFWA Nebula Conference
Poetry Meetup
June 6th at 2pm Central Time
https://sfwa.org

This speculative poetry meetup is part of the virtual branch of the SFWA Nebula Conference being held in Kansas City, MO. It is open to all conference attendees who are interested in speculative poetry or are poets. Come and meet your peers at the meetup and learn what the Poetry Committee has to offer at SFWA!

#nebulaconference #SFWA #sfpoetry #sciencefiction #fantasy #poets #writers #authors

Jackie and I are celebrating our 33rd wedding anniversary with lunch at Big Grove joined by my brother @stevendbrewer and his younger son who are visiting on their way to SFWA's Nebula Award ceremony.

#sfwa

https://www.philipbrewer.net/2025/05/30/2025-05-30-1214/

@Priyajsridhar
How would I form a union for my creative industry of choice if one doesn't exist already?

We've spent years building up the various writing guilds here in the U.S.: SFWA, HWA, RWA, etc. They set minimum professional rates and you can buy into group health insurance. I guess I'd use that model . . .

I also belong to a similar group for editors.

Before I was a writer/editor, I was an engineer and belonged to IEEE.

#Writephant #SFWA #guilds

Recent SFWA newsletter – Very mad at Meta AI for stealing our stuff. Currently just suggesting actions for individual authors to take, but seems like they might be working on something bigger.

"As an organization, SFWA will continue to fight for our principles. Writers must be paid, credited, and protected, following expected norms."

Class action suit? Sign me up.

#SFWA #SF #SciFi #WritersCoffeeClub

Congrats to everyone on the #SFWA Nebula noms lists. https://nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/2024/

Well done!

#writersofmastodon

This week at The SFWA Blog for @SFWA, we were deeply honored to bring you this read by A. D. Sui, a Ukrainian writer in diaspora.

Here, Sui shares a thought-provoking glimpse into the process of reclaiming Ukrainian identity through SFF.

This is not a piece to be missed by folks working in liminal, haunted, and wounded spaces in genre as in the world.

#SFF #Ukraine #SFWA
https://www.sfwa.org/2025/03/04/legacy-of-the-iron-curtain-writing-ukrainian-fiction-in-a-post-soviet-world/

Heya #SFWA members! Tomorrow is the deadline to nominate for the Nebula Awards! I've got a lot eligible if you're willing!

Best Short Story: "The Curse," "The Bell Ringer," "Eye of the Beholder" w/ Jennifer Brozek, and "Not Today."
Best Collection and Best Art Book: The Bell Ringer & Other Holiday Tales

Thanks for your consideration!
(Yes, this is the third version of this as I kept forgetting stories that were eligible. O_o I had more published last year than I thought!)

Some awards nominations are about to close, and some are still open. Nebula Award nominations close on the 28th. I'm longlisted for four BSFA awards for short stories on this list. I appreciate the consideration. Thank you for your votes and nominations!
#Nebula #BSFA #SFWA #scifi #shortficiton #fantasy #magicalrealism #nominations #sciencefiction #SFF #shortstories

Hey #SFWA members! This petition is just 30 signatures short. Please consider signing before the deadline, Feb. 20: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSejnIedEP-rqRpSU2q0yHwTrQqR2A5wrsVsA_HA4MzhAf-xnA/viewform

SFWA Presents: Get to Know…Our New Comics and Poetry Nebula Awards
by the SFWA Publications Crew in conversation with Jessica Maison,
Holly Lyn Walrath, and Wendy Van Camp

The SFWA Blog: https://www.sfwa.org/2025/02/18/sfwa-presents-get-to-knowthe-road-to-sfwas-new-comics-and-poetry-nebula-awards/

#sfwa #nebula #sfpoetry #sciencefiction #syfy #scifi #sfcomics

Ooh! I had a wonderful conversation with @LJ at the #SFWA table. We're practically neighbors! WHO KNEW!?

The #SFWA fan table is set up at #Boskone.

Happy Publication Day! SFWA published my essay aggregating advice for authors (+ pretty much anyone else) thinking about donating their documents to archives some day!

Read it here --> https://www.sfwa.org/2025/01/21/preservation-guidance-for-authors-planning-to-donate-their-personal-papers-to-archives/

#writingcommunity #writing #writinglife #family #preservation #archives #history #sfwa #reading #personalhistory #papers #authorialpapers #documents #community #research #culture #authors #writers

Lack of spoons and tolerance

SFWA has been going through some stuff. There has been a staff exodus, two presidential resignations, one board member removed for cause, and a number of non-public issues. During the summer, the interim president urged members to do one thing that could help the organization move forward.

I did a few small things:

• I gave the organization the benefit of the doubt. (Giving new board members time to settle into their roles seemed a reasonable ask.)
• I remained on a committee. (Our work was largely on hold, but I wanted to be on hand to help a very hard working chair.)
• I renewed my membership. (I was very much on the fence, but among other things wanted to vote in the next election.)
• I defended the organization in another online space. (It’s never good to let known bad actors spread rumors, and the known bad actors aren’t known to everybody.)1

Well, it’s now been a few months. There’s been some progress. The board has reviewed and revised some internal policies. There’s some catch-up work going on, like getting the Nebula Awards Showcase anthologies back on track, and doing necessary administrative paperwork.

There’s still a decided lack of transparency about some important issues. Most distressingly, the board’s position on Palestinian writers and its ability to issue statements or offer tangible assistance to writers has been absolutely incoherent.

There are many potential reasons for that incoherence. Some of those reasons are ugly, others are less bad; but there’s limited use in trying to divine the reasons individual board member have for making their decisions (or even where individual board members stand on individual issues: membership doesn’t always get that information). The effect is still negative. Not terribly important, in the grand scheme of things—there’s a limit to what a small writing-related nonprofit can do—but still deeply disappointing.

I’m no longer offering SFWA leadership the benefit of the doubt. I’m no longer volunteering with the organization.2 I’m no longer moved by a call to do one thing for the organization.

I am still poking my head up occasionally to point out bad behavior—racism, transphobia, fascism, etc.—as evidenced by this post and the open letter I signed. I don’t have a whole lot of spoons, but this is a worthwhile use of some of them.

1. Maybe this is half a bullet point. My issue was mostly “check your sources and please don’t boost this venue,” and that theoretically could’ve applied to any misinformation source about any topic (a thing I was especially sensitive to given the disastrous information landscape ramping up to the US election). But still, it was a defense of SFWA that prompted me to leave a space I’d valued. ↩︎
2. It’s months until I have to decide about renewing my membership. I might be tempted to flounce immediately if I was a bigger name, but I most definitely am not so that would just be silly. (Nobody is going to notice or care about this blog post, either, but that lack of impact is perfectly in keeping with old-school blog posts.) I will note that SFWA has already lost some members who are worth noticing—larger names and busy volunteers—due to some of the issues mentioned. ↩︎

#sfwa #spoons

Going to be reading with several others. Feel free to RSVP here for directions:

https://partiful.com/e/pT15z2NmaF8PKMylMNZF

#nyc #literature #amreading #amwriting #scifi #fantasy #live #SFWA #poetry #fiction #comedy

This month's #SFWA Indie Author Committee meetup topic is Conferences and events for learning/sales.

These meetups are open discussions. If you're a SFWA member or attended the 2024 Nebulas, feel free to join us. Bring what you know and/or your questions!

#writersofmastodon #writerscommunity

https://events.sfwa.org/events/indie-author-meetup-good-conferences-and-workshops-for-learning-sales/

This week at The SFWA Blog, we had another piece that might be of interest to the translators here, along with anyone in game writing. Kristin Osani chatted with SFWA Blog Editor Misha Grifka Wander about the challenges and delights of Japanese-to-English games translation. (I was struck, personally, by the lack of credit that's often given to this slice of the translation universe! We still have work to do!)

#SFF #Translation #SFWA #VideoGames
https://www.sfwa.org/2024/12/10/translation-for-video-games-an-interview-with-kristin-osani/