Due to concerns regarding the coronavirus–the cause of COVID-19–the 3rd Friday meeting of WSFA has been canceled.

WSFA will meet in our Maryland location for 3rd Friday this week (2/21/2020). (Email Secretary @ WSFA dot org for directions.) The Committee to Discuss SF will discuss the Jan/Feb issue of Uncanny Magazine (issue 32) at https://uncannymagazine.com/ These stories are available for free online. And two of the stories are also available in podcast […]

The Third Friday WSFA meeting will take place in our Maryland location this Friday, Nov 15th. The Committee to Discuss SF will discuss the current issue of Clarkesworld featuring stories by Mathew Kessel, Gregory Feeley, and Elizabeth Bear plus more. At http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/ Remember, you don’t have to read all the stories to participate in the […]

November is near. First Friday will be this Friday, Nov 1, in Virginia. We will have a reading from new author Tom Crepeau. We will also discuss Capclave. The committee to discuss SF will talk about the Sept/Oct issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction. This is their 70th-anniversary issue and it is crammed with lots […]

The Third Friday (Where does the time go?) WSFA meeting will be held tomorrow 9/20/19 at the Maryland home of Candy and Grig Larson. The Committee to discuss SF will be reading September issue of Clarkesworld which is free online at http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/

The Washington Science Fiction Association (WSFA) is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2019 WSFA Small Press Award: “Baggage,” by Leslie Burton-Lopez, published in When to Now: A Time Travel Anthology, Fairfield Scribes, (October 2018); “The Djinni and the Accountant,” by Hal J. Friesen, published in Fire: Demons, Dragons, and Djinn, ed. by Rhonda Parrish, Tyche Books, […]

As has been readily apparent, wsfa.org has been off-line for a considerable amount of time, and there’s no point beating around the bush. We got hacked. We got hacked bad. It has taken all this time to methodically go through every directory and file on the site and clean out the mess. But we are […]

Eva Whitley is hosting a Fifth Friday party. March 29th from 8 to 11 PM at her home. Check the WSFA Event Calendar for more detail. If you intend to come to 5th Friday, please bring your a chair to sit on. Fifth Fridays no business is done, just the fun stuff.

The Washington (DC) Science Fiction Association (WSFA) is pleased to announce that the submission period for the 2019 WSFA Small Press Award is now open and will close on April 7, 2019. The WSFA Small Press Award honors the efforts of small press publishers in providing a critical venue for short fiction in the area […]

It’s fall and weddings and conventions are in the air. This will require some changing locations of WSFA meetings. The September WSFA Meetings will meet in their regular locations. October First Friday (10/5) will be at the home of Mark Roth (4109 Tulare Dr. Silver Spring, MD 20906, (301-933-5696) October Third Friday (10/19) will be […]