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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

New Zealand speculative fiction author Philippa Ballantine is visiting the Baltimore area and will be reading from her popular fantasy novel Geist at the Baltimore Science Fiction Society on January 8, 2011 at 8:00pm. She will also share news about her upcoming steampunk novel Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences and her multiple podcasting projects. Come celebrate […]

What: WSFA Theater Trip – A Wrinkle in Time When: Sunday, December 19, 2010 2:30 PM Where: Round House Theatre Bethesda 4545 East-West Highway Bethesda, MD 20814 240-644-1100 More information: http://www.roundhousetheatre.org/performance/a-wrinkle-in-time/ Round House Theatre presents the stage adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s Newbery Award-winning young adult novel A Wrinkle in Time. Written in 1962, this sci-fi […]

Last night at Capclave’s Award Ceremony, the winner of the WSFA Small Press Award for 2010 (for works published in 2009) was announced. And the winner is: “Siren Beat” by Tansy Rayner Roberts, published in Twelfth Planet, edited by Alisa Krasnostein (October 2009) Alisa Krasnostein accepted the award for Tansy Rayner Roberts. Also present at […]