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.

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!

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).

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.

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

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!

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!

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.

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.

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.