Quick Updates for 2011-07-07
Member News for Diana Rowland, Jim C. Hines, and David Levine.
The Endeavour Award Finalists and Judges
Portland – Four novels and a collection of short stories are finalists for the 2011 Endeavour Award. The 2011 will be the thirteenth year for the Award, which comes with an honorarium of $1,000.00. The winner will be announced November 11, 2011, at OryCon, Oregon’s major science fiction convention. The finalists are: “A Cup of […]
Quick Updates for 2011-07-06
Happy release day to SFWA member @dianarowland and her novel My Life as a White Trash Zombie. # Happy Release day to SFWA member @jimchines and his novel SNOW QUEEN. # @nkjemisin Not satire, but it is a guest post by Terry Bisson, so reflects how he approaches writing short fiction. #
Guest Post: 60 Rules for Short SF (and Fantasy)
A “mainstream” short story can be about anything: a mood, a character, a setting, even a flashy writing style. A genre (SF or fantasy) short story is about an idea. The fictional elements (character, plot, setting, etc) are only there to dramatize the idea. Here are the rules for the SF (or Fantasy) short story.
Quick Updates for 2011-07-05
Member News for Matthew Johnson and Yasmine Galenorn.
Happy 4th of July
SFWA wishes you a fabulous Fourth filled with “squibs, crackers, backarappers, sparklers, torches, dwarf-candles, elf-fountains, goblin-barkers and thunder-claps.”
