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 […]

Third Friday (June 15th) we will discuss the nominated novellas, novelettes, and short stories. First Friday in July we will discuss the nominated novels and best series. Third Friday in July we will discuss the WSFA small press award nominees. First Friday in August, we will review the small press nominees and then discuss the […]

WSFAns Can Vote on the Small Press Award Members of WSFA have the opportunity to choose the winner of the WSFA Small Press Award. Please visit http://www.wsfasmallpressaward.org/ Please read the stories and vote by midnight August 5th.

Jon Skovron, the host for Shut Up & Write, a writing discussion series hosted by the Arlington Public Library and presented by Lit-Up! sent us this announcement. All About Anthologies Our next Shut Up & Write event is May 24th, and it’s going to be about writing YA short fiction and editing YA short fiction […]