September 3rd, 2021 at 10:17 pm
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Topic: WSFA Third Friday — August
Time: Aug 20, 2021 08:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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August 19th, 2021 at 1:11 pm
WSFA Washington SF Assocation is viting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: WSFA Third Friday — August
Time: Aug 20, 2021 08:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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After the meeting, the Committee to Discuss SF will talk about the July-August issue of Uncanny Magazine. This is free on the web at https://uncannymagazine.com/ The magazine features stories by TOCHI ONYEBUCHI, YOON HA LEE, ELLEN KUSHNER, and others. Remember, you don’t have to read the whole magazine. Even if you read just one or two stories you may take part in the discussion. If you are too busy to read, you can listen to two of the stories as podcasts.
On September’s First Friday, we will discuss the July/August issue of Asimov’s.
August 13th, 2021 at 9:14 am
The WSFA Small Press Award Committee Announces Finalists for 2021 Award for stories published in 2020.
The Washington (DC) Science Fiction Association (WSFA) is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2021 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction:
“Foster-Child of Silence and Slow Time” by Brian Hugenbruch, My Battery Is Low And It Is Getting Dark, ed. by Crystal Sarakas and Joshua Palmatier, Zombies Need Brains LLC (July 2020);
“Guest Athletes” by Jennifer R. Povey, The Phantom Games: Dimensions Unknown Vol. III ed. by John Paul Catton, Excalibur Books (October 10, 2020);
“Heritage Hill” by Matthew R. Davis, Outback Horrors Down Under: An Anthology of Antipodean Terrors, ed. By Steve Dillon, Things in the Well, (October 2020);
“The Longest Season in the Garden of the Tea Fish” by Jo Miles, Strange Horizons (April 2020) ed. by Gautam Bhatia, Rasha Abdulhadi, et al.;
“Memories Taste Best When Marinated With Sadness” by Feng Gooi, Hexagon Magazine, Issue 2 (Fall 2020) ed. by J.W. Stebner;
“Metal Like Blood in the Dark” by T. Kingfisher, Uncanny Magazine, (September/October 2020) ed. by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas;
“Myself” by Rebecca Enzor, DreamForge, Issue 7 (December 2020) ed. by Scot Noel;
“Open House on Haunted Hill” by John Wiswell, Diabolical Plots (June 15, 2020) ed. by David Steffen;
“Reformed” by Caias Ward, Mysterion, (March 23, 2020), ed. by Donald S. Crankshaw and Kristin Janz;
The 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 (2020). 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 will be presented at their annual convention, Capclave (www.capclave.org), held on October 1-3, 2021 at the Rockville Hilton, Rockville, MD.
August 2nd, 2021 at 1:09 pm
WSFA First Friday invite — this is a hybrid meeting, with select in-person participation at the hosts’ residence as well as online participation. Pre-meeting socializing may start slightly later than usual while tech issues are worked out. (See additional information at bottom of this announcement.)
A Capclave meeting will be hosted under a separate Zoom account and the invite will be sent out separately.
WSFA Washington SF Association is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: WSFA First Friday — August
Time: Aug 6, 2021 09:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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The First Friday in August meeting will be held virtually via Zoom. Beginning in August 2021, WSFA will be piloting a hybrid meeting structure on First Fridays so we can continue providing virtual access to WSFA meetings after we resume in-person gatherings. Current in-person attendees for these pilot meetings are restricted to elected WSFA officers and Tech Committee members only.
We hope to resume in-person gatherings later this year as long as it is deemed safe to do so by national and local public health authorities and in full compliance with the house rules of our generous hosts. Please be advised that when in-person meetings resume, we will have strict health & safety protocols, including vaccination requirements. This is to protect our hosts and their families, your fellow WSFAns, and you. We will share detailed information in the upcoming months.
July 11th, 2021 at 8:03 pm
WSFA Washington SF Assocation is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: WSFA Third Friday — July
Time: Jul 16, 2021 08:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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June 29th, 2021 at 12:24 pm
WSFA Washington SF Association is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: WSFA First Friday — July
Time: Jul 2, 2021 08:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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June 14th, 2021 at 11:01 pm
WSFA Washington SF Association is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: WSFA Third Friday — June
Time: Jun 18, 2021 08:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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June 4th, 2021 at 12:01 am
Meeting called to order by bob MacIntosh at 9:15pm
Reading of minutes of prior meeting waived.
Treasury reported on budget numbers
Capclave Present: Rodger had talked to Bjorn Hessler re: ROF/1632 minicon. Kim Hargan handling GOH travel. We added 13 new memberships from Balticon. We’re ahead of last year in terms of memberships. Rodger Burns spoke to Syd Weinstein re: Capclave zambia and the need to coordinate with Paul Haggerty.
Click the link for the full text of the June/July 2021 WSFA Journal, including the Minutes of the June 4th, 18th 2021 / July 2nd, 16th 2021 meetings.
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Note: Publication date is set to the date of the Journal, rather than the date posted, for indexing purposes
May 29th, 2021 at 9:20 am
WSFA Washington SF Association is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: WSFA First Friday — June
Time: Jun 4, 2021 08:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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May 19th, 2021 at 2:14 am
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Topic: Capclave Meeting & WSFA Third Friday — May
Time: May 21, 2021, 08:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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