on our way to
the 60th Annual nebula Awards conference
…with plenty of other SFWA Events along the way!

Upcoming Online Events
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Nebula Conference Opening Reception
Kansas City Local Time:
June 5, 2025 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm
June 5, 2025 6:00 pm to
9:00 pm
Join the party in the Griffith Suite for the conference opening reception! The reception starts at 8pm Central; we’ll open the suite about an hour early (7pm Central/5pm Pacific) for those who’d like to slide in.
Short Story Market
Kansas City Local Time:
June 6, 2025 8:00 am – 9:30 am
June 6, 2025 6:00 am to
7:30 am
The short story market is rapidly changing, and SFWA has been working on a new tool to analyze paying markets. Join us to test out the Short Story Matrix. We will discuss what writers should look for in professional markets—from payment to legalese.
The Second Person and You
Kansas City Local Time:
June 6, 2025 10:00 am to 11:30 am
June 6, 2025 8:00 am to
9:30 am
Second person fiction is often considered “artsy” and “difficult,” but it can also produce uniquely powerful, affecting stories. Authors Rachel Swirsky (“If You Were Dinosaur, My Love”; “A Memory of Wind”) and P H Lee (“The V*mpire”; “Your Own Undoing”), plus perhaps a mystery guest, will discuss a variety approaches to writing fiction in the second-person, including but not limited to you-and-I, ultra-close interiority, and reader-as-character. They’ll cover the effects on reader experience, benefits and obstacles in the writing process, and how to elevate your second-person story game.
Successful Strategies for Marketing without Ads (and Other Impossibilities)
Kansas City Local Time:
June 6, 2025 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
June 6, 2025 8:00 am to
10:00 am
Join former marketing executive and full-time author Laura Greenwood as she presents a variety of proven strategies to market your books without PPC advertising. Whether through content marketing, newsletters, or social media, there are many ways to get your book in front of the right readers and sell, sell, sell without relying on Facebook or Amazon ads. Impossible you say? Laura will show you it’s not!
Poetry and Prose
Kansas City Local Time:
June 6, 2025 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
June 6, 2025 11:00 am to
12:00 pm
Writers of all types have so much in common: the love of a precise word, a complex rhythm, an agonizingly well-turned phrase. Where do poetry and prose overlap, and how do they differ—most importantly, what can these writers learn from each other?
SFWA SILENT Auction Spotlight on…

This year, bid on a terrific number of Kaffeeklatsches at SFWA’s Silent Auction, which launches on May 29 and ends on June 12 at 7pm PDT. We are honored to be partnering this year with Kevin J. Anderson, Lois McMaster Bujold, Vajra Chandrasekera, Mary Robinette Kowal, Fonda Lee, Jonathan Maberry, Patrick Rothfuss, and John Scalzi (among many others, in other categories!) in service to SFF advocacy and uplift.
Thank you to everyone who has generously supported this year’s silent auction with their time, creative work, experience, and monetary donations. As we celebrate the last 60 years of SFWA’s success at Kansas City, Missouri from June 5-8, we’re also looking ahead to the next.
Thank you for everything you do to make that future possible!
See you real soon for the full conference, in-person and/or online!