Comics Chat with James B. Emmett
2026-01-15 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join the Comics Committee for the January Comics Chat featuring James B. Emmett. James is the Senior Editor of Creator Owned Content at Mad Cave Studios. His presentation on working with a comics editor will be followed by an informal Q & A and chat about comics.

SFWA Middle-Grade and YA Writers Meet-up
2026-01-20 14:00 - 15:00
Are you a SFWA member who’s writing YA or MG, or are interested in it? Come join our social hangout!

https://events.sfwa.org/events/sfwa-middle-grade-and-ya-writers-meet-up-15/

Brooklyn Books & Booze!
2026-01-20 16:00 - 18:00
Brooklyn Books & Booze returns on Tuesday, January 20 at 7pm EST at Barrow's Intense Tasting Room at 86th 34th Street, Brooklyn, NY (in Industry City)! Our readers this month are Ellen Kushner, Amanda Cockrell, Caitlin Rozakis and Michael Swanwick. This is a monthly in-person event that showcases four (or more!) authors reading from their recent works. And it's FREE!

Speculative Poetry Open Mic
2026-01-24 11:00 - 12:00
Host: Gwynne Garfinkle
Featured Poet: Linda D. Addison, SFPA Grand Master

The SFWA Poetry Committee hosts a quarterly open mic for our poets. This is an unrecorded meetup where we share our work with each other. You are welcome to read works in progress or published work in the privacy of Zoom.

At the half hour, our feature will be introduced and read for twenty minutes. This will be recorded and available on the events page to view. Bring a poem or two to read, hear our featured poet, and hang out afterwards.

Linda D. Addison is the award-winning author of five collections, including The Place of Broken Things, written with Alessandro Manzetti, & How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend, and a recipient of the HWA Lifetime Achievement Award. She is the first African-American recipient of the HWA Bram Stoker Award®, co-editor of Sycorax’s Daughters, an anthology of horror fiction & poetry by African- American women, poetry editor of Space & Time Magazine since 2000, and editor of the 2018 Rhysling Anthology and the HWA StokerCon Anthology 2019. Her work has made frequent appearances over the years on the honorable mention list for Year’s Best anthology. She has a B.S. in Mathematics from Carnegie-Mellon University and currently lives in Arizona. Addison is a founding member of the writer’s group Circles in the Hair (CITH), and a member of HWA, SFWA and SFPA.

https://events.sfwa.org/events/speculative-poetry-open-mic-5/

Speculative Poetry Book Club
2026-02-07 11:00 - 12:00
A meeting of the speculative poetry book club. At the sixth meeting, we will discuss Katherine Quevedo’s chapbook “The Inca Weaver’s Tales,” winner of the 2025 Elgin Award. No poetry expertise required! The discussion will be run by Mary Soon Lee, a Grand Master of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association.

Space is limited for this event; please RSVP to (marysoonlee [at] gmail [dot] com).

https://events.sfwa.org/events/speculative-poetry-book-club-6/

Indie Author Meetup – The Ins and Outs of Print Profit
2026-02-07 16:00 - 17:00
The SFWA Independent Authors Committee invites you to join us at our virtual meetup. This month’s topic: What are the pitfalls for print production for indie authors? What do you need to know about distributors, pricing, hardcovers, and special editions? Let’s share our wisdom.

https://events.sfwa.org/events/indie-author-meetup-the-ins-and-outs-of-print-profit/
