SFWA Events

Authors After Dark Romance Unlimited (17 Sep 2010)

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Join your master of ceremonies, Jacquelyn Frank, along
with the AAD bloggers and a slew of award-winning, best-selling authors for a weekend of amazing reads, free books, and goodies galore.

Registration is $140 and includes five meals and alcohol (wine and mixed drinks). Activities include panels designed for reader participation on writing craft, including a GBLT track; mini events chock full of goodies and insider info; parties filled with gifts and free books; and two evening events. This year we will have a games night with everything from Romance Pictionary to The Mystical Mavens gypsy tent where you can get free fortune telling. Our Masquerade Ball this year will have as its theme, Literary Characters, and you could win a 50$ gift certificate to BN or Borders for best costume! Door prizes will include works by Jacquelyn Frank, Joey W. Hill, and Susan Sizemore.

Editor appointments will be offered on Friday and Saturday from editors from Kensington, Ballantine, Tease Publishing, Phaze, MLR Press, Samhain, and several others.

There will be three hours on Saturday where you can
get your favorite books signed and pick up others from some of your new favorites, along with a Wine and Sign snack party.

Rooms: $109 a night, double occupancy.
Free shuttle to and from Newark Airport and Secaucus Junction Train station.

Click for more information and registration.

Milford SF Writers' Workshop (UK) (18 Sep 2010)

Sat, 18 Sep 2010 04:00:00 GMT

A well-established week-long event for published SF
writers, run by writers, for writers. Situated in an idyllic location in the Snowdonia National Park, between 9 and 15 writers gather for a week to workshop their manuscripts. There are no teachers and no students. Neither is it an elitist in-group, however much fun that would be. Invitations are extended to authors from all over the world. Some may have sold only a single story, others barely recall what a rejection slip look like. The minimum qualification for attending Milford is a single fiction sale to a paying market.

The format is challenging and exhausting, with much hard work being done; but convivial, with much sitting around and talking about hard work. In short, it's a social as well as a literary event.

There is free time in the mornings for reading, critting, writing or lallygagging. Three to five manuscripts will be discussed each afternoon. Thorough but constructive crits are encouraged and time is limited to give everyone a fair chance. Post crit discussions often occur into the
evening social time.

There's full-board accommodation. See the website for details: www.milfordsf.co.uk

SFWA's 2011 Nebula Awards Weekend (2 Jun 2011)

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 20:30:00 GMT

Washington, DC welcomes Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America to the 2011 Nebula Awards® Weekend June 2-5, 2011.

Hotel and transportation information

Prices until Saturday, April 30, 2011

Full Weekend -- $150.00 ($125 for SFWA members & their guests)
Full Weekend = all activities Thursday through Sunday, including workshops, some tours, the program and the Saturday Nebula Awards Banquet

Saturday Evening Banquet Only -- $125.00 ($100 for SFWA members & their guests)
Includes the pre-banquet reception (6:00 p.m.), the banquet & the after-dinner Nebula Awards Presentations

Nebulas Basic -- No banquet meal $55.00 ($40 for SFWA members & their guests)
Nebulas Basic - all activities Thursday - Sunday including after-dinner Nebula Awards Presentations and activities, but no banquet meal

Group Tables - Publishers or other groups may purchase a bundle of eight (8) Full Weekend memberships at a 10% discount. There must be at least one SFWA member at each Group Table. A table will be reserved in the group's name. One person should be designated as the group's liaison. The group table must be paid for in one payment either by check or paypal.

Table of 8 - Full Weekend

$900 through April 30, 2011

$1000 May 1st to Sunday May 19th

$1150 May 20 - Monday May 26 (if tables are still available)

A registration fee for children 12 and under is not necessary. All childcare needs must be arranged by the parents.

Prices Friday May 6 - Thursday May 19, 2011

Full Weekend - $175 ($140 SFWA members & their guests)
Saturday Evening Banquet Only - $150 ($125 SFWA members & guests)
Nebulas Basic - $75 ($50 SFWA members & guests)

Prices Friday May 20 - Thursday May 26, 2011

Full Weekend - $200 ($160 SFWA members & their guests)
Saturday Evening Banquet Only - $175 ($140 SFWA members & guests)
Nebulas Basic - $100 ($60 SFWA members & guests)

From Friday May 27, prices remain the same but Full Weekend and Saturday Evening Banquet tickets may not be available. Nebulas Basic memberships will be available at the door.