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January 9th, 2023 at 8:16 pm

Nominations for the 2023 WSFA Small Press Award is now open

The Washington (DC) Science Fiction Association (WSFA) is pleased to announce that the submission period for the 2023 WSFA Small Press Award is now open and will close on March 31, 2023.

The WSFA Small Press Award honors the efforts of small press publishers in providing a critical venue for short fiction in the area of speculative fiction. The award showcases the best original short fiction published by small presses in the previous year (2022). An unusual feature of the selection process is that all voting is done with the identity of the author (and publisher) hidden so that the final choice is based solely on the quality of the story.

The winner is chosen by the members of the Washington Science Fiction Association (www.wsfa.org) and presented at their annual convention, Capclave (www.capclave.org), held on September 29 – October 1, 2023 in Rockville, MD.

Submissions should be sent to admin@wsfasmallpressaward.org

See our webpage  The Rules for details.

January 4th, 2023 at 10:36 pm

WSFA 1st Friday Meeting – Jan. 6, 2023 at 8:30 pm will be via Zoom

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December 13th, 2022 at 3:24 pm

WSFA 3rd Friday Meeting – Dec 16, 2022, 8:00 p.m. will be via Zoom

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November 29th, 2022 at 11:07 am

WSFA 1st Friday Meeting – Dec. 2, 2022, 8:00 p.m. via Zoom

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November 12th, 2022 at 8:43 am

WSFA 3rd Friday Meeting: Nov. 18, 2022, 8:00 pm via Zoom

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Topic: WSFA Third Friday — November 2023
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November 4th, 2022 at 12:01 am

WSFA Journal November/December 2022

First Friday November

Aaron Pound was taking the minutes.

9:16 PM start

Treasurer
Just under $—
Still haven’t finalized Capclave hotel bill
May be owed money
Need receipts from people who did Capclave stuff
Silent auction raised $— for SFWA Emergency Fund

Capclave Present May have a WSFA Small Press book
$30 staff rate

Capclave Past Post-convention meeting done
Asks for receipts so Capclave 2022 can close

Capclave Future Not present

Trustees If you want to run for office, let a trustee know
Give Sam receipts
Dues are due in January in order to vote

 

Click the link for the full text of the November/December 2022 WSFA Journal, including the Minutes of the November 4th, 18th 2022 / December 2nd, 16th 2022 meetings.

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Note: Publication date is set to the date of the Journal, rather than the date posted, for indexing purposes

November 1st, 2022 at 3:08 pm

WSFA 1st Friday Meeting – November 4, 2022 @ 8:00 pm will be via Zoom

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October 20th, 2022 at 5:37 am

WSFA 3rd Friday Meeting – Oct 21, 2022 – 9:00 pm – via Zoom

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The Committee to Discuss SF will meet after Friday’s WSFA Meeting to discuss the October Clarkesworld magazine at https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/

Our schedule for the remaining months of 2022 is:

Nov 1st Friday the Sept/Oct Asimov
Nov 3rd Friday the October Lightspeed
Dec 1st Friday the Sept/October F&SF
Dec 3rd Friday the December Clarkesworld.

October 4th, 2022 at 5:30 pm

Winner of the WSFA Small Press Award for 2022 Announced

The Washington Science Fiction Association (WSFA) is pleased to announce that on October 1st at the Capclave science fiction convention, Stephen Harper won the 2022 WSFA Small Press Award for best short fiction published by a small press in 2021
 
“Eight Mile and the City” by Steven Harper, When Worlds Collide, ed. by S. C. Butler & Joshua Palmatier, Zombies Need Brains, LLC (July 2021), is the winner of the 2022 WSFA Small Press Award.
 
The award was announced by Capclave Guest of Honor Ursula Vernon, who is the only three-time winner of the WSFA Small Press Award.
The list of all finalists:
  • “The Birdsong Fossil” by DK Mok, Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures, (April 2021) World Weaver Press ed. by Christoph Rupprecht, Deborah Cleland, Norie Tamura, Rajat Chaudhuri, and Sarena Ulibarri
  • “Dress of Ash” by Y. M. Pang, Seasons Between Us: Tales of Identities and Memories, ed. by Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law, Laksa Media Groups Inc. (2021)
  • “Eight Mile and the City” by Steven Harper, When Worlds Collide, ed. by  S. C. Butler & Joshua Palmatier,  Zombies Need Brains, LLC (July 2021)
  • “Fisherman’s Soup” by Kristina Ten, Mermaids Monthly, (May 26, 2021) ed. by Julia Rios, Meg Frank, and Ashley Deng
  • “From the Ashes Flew the Ladybug” by Alexandra Seidel, The Deadlands, Issue 7 (November 2021) ed. by E. Catherine Tobler
  • “Laughter Among the Trees” by Suzan Palumbo, The Dark Magazine, Issue 69 (February 2021) ed by Sean Wallace
  • “Space Pirate Queen of the Ten Billion Utopias” by Elly Bangs, Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 138 (November 2021) ed. by John Joseph Adams
  • “Standing Orders” by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, Derelicts, ed. by David B. Coe and Joshua Palmatier, Zombies Need Brains, LLC (July 2021)
  • “A Stranger Goes Ashore” by Adam R. Shannon, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue 328 (April 22, 2021) ed. by Scott H. Andrews
  • “A Universe All to Himself” by Ryan Priest, Metaphorosis, (April 2021) ed. by B. Morris Allen
September 29th, 2022 at 1:31 pm

1st Friday WSFA Meeting – Oct. 7, 2022 at 9:00 pm will be via Zoom

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