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May 16th, 2012 at 8:28 am

WSFA Goes to the Nebula

The 5/18 May Third Friday will not be at our usual location since many members are helping SFWA with the Nebula Award Weekend. A brief meeting will be held at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia, after the book signing (around 7:30). The book signing from 5:30 – 7:30 is free & open to the public. Books can be bought on-site or you can bring in your own copies.

April 9th, 2012 at 12:11 am

Silently and Very Fast Nominated For Hugo Award

WSFA is proud to congratulate Capclave 2011 GoH Catherynne M. Valente for her Hugo nomination for Silently and Very Fast as Best Novella. A few copies of the signed limited edition are still available at WSFA Press. Act now!

April 2nd, 2012 at 8:35 pm

Author Reading at WSFA First Friday

At WSFA’s First Friday meeting on April 6th, Diana Peterfreund will be reading from her June book “For Darkness Shows the Stars.” Due to Passover, this meeting will be held at our Maryland location (Madigans).

March 27th, 2012 at 2:03 am

Fifth & First Fridays at the Madigans

The March Fifth Friday party will be held at the Madigans on 3/30. The April 1st Friday (4/6) will also be at the Madigans (our usual Maryland location). Thanks John and Candy! See calendar for details.

March 21st, 2012 at 4:36 pm

Nominations for the WSFA Small Press Award close on April 1st, 2012.

Deadline for nominating works for the WSFA Small Press Award is April 1, 2012.
You can find the rules here: http://wsfasmallpressaward.org/The_Rules.php

February 1st, 2012 at 11:10 pm

WSFA Press book on Locus Recommended Reading List

Silently and Very Fast, the WSFA Press book by Capclave 2011 GOH Catherynne M. Valente, is on the Locus Recommended Reading List. They also list three of her other books — Deathless, The Folded World, and The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making — plus two stories. Copies of Silently and Very Fast are still available at WSFA Press!

January 12th, 2012 at 10:31 pm

Capclave to visit Boston for Boskone

Capclave will be at Boskone, the Boston SF convention in February. Visit our table to buy Capclave memberships and say hello to our dodos (the puppets, not our volunteers!).  If you like GoH John Scalzi at Boskone, you’ll love him at Capclave!

January 10th, 2012 at 3:24 pm

WSFA Small Press Committee Now Accepting Nominations

The Washington Science Fiction Association [www.wsfa.org] has established a literary award to honor the work done by small presses in promoting and preserving science fiction. The award, WSFA Small Press Award, now in its sixth year, is given annually for short fiction works (17,500 words or fewer) of imaginative literature (e.g., science fiction, fantasy, horror, speculative fiction or like literature) published by a small press in the previous calendar year. Nominations close April 1st.

Stories may be nominated by SF authors and small press publishers. Details of the nomination process and contact information can be found at www.wsfasmallpressaward.org.

If you have any question email: admin (at) wsfasmallpressaward (dot) org.

August 11th, 2011 at 11:17 pm

Going to Reno for Worldcon? Visit our Capclave fan table.

WSFA members and friends will be staffing a Capclave fan table at the convention. Stop by to say hello and find out about our annual convention in the Washington, D.C. area.

May 7th, 2011 at 8:54 pm

Nebula Awards Weekend being held in Washington D.C. — May 19-22, 2011

This year the Nebula Awards Weekend sponsored by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) is being held in at the Washington Hilton, 1919 Connecticut N.W., Washington D.C.

On Friday night (May 20th), the public is invited to a book signing held at the hotel from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. You do not have to be a member of SFWA or the convention to attend this signing.

For a full list of the authors who will be signing their books, check the website.