SFWA EVENTS
Remembering the Highlights (Full gallery here)
Our Toastmaster and Grand Master Speeches
To keep the joy of our diamond-year at SFWA going, we were thrilled to announce early-bird pricing for next year’s Nebula Conference at this year’s Nebula Awards Ceremony.
From now until December 31, general registration to our 61st Nebula Awards Conference in Chicago, June 2-7, is only $250 USD.
We’ll touch base later about Nebula Banquet pricing, but for now: Spread the word about this limited-time discount to all our regular conference programming, and keep the magic of the Nebs alive! We hope to see you again soon!
Upcoming Events
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Writing Date with ALMA ALEXANDER (Quiet Writing Room)
August 31, 2025 2:00 pm to
4:00 pm
A Writing Date is basically productivity through peer pressure and honestly, any co-working is welcome.
Introduction to HARP for Mentors
September 6, 2025 1:00 pm to
2:00 pm
We’re launching our Heritage Author Reproduction Project (HARP) on October 1, so here’s a great opportunity to get to know what mentorship will look like for the tech-savvy mentors, ask questions, and firm up where you’d like to help out.
Indie Author Meetup – Featuring Vanessa Ricci-Thode
September 6, 2025 4:00 pm to
5:00 pm
The SFWA Independent Authors Committee invites you to join us at our virtual meetup. Each month, the meetup features an expert speaker for thirty minutes of programming followed by opportunities to ask questions and network with the SFWA indie authors community. This month’s topic: Vanessa Ricci-Thode discusses how she catapulted her self-published middle-grade/YA novella, “The Young Necromancer’s Guide to Ghosts” into winning the 2025 Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction, becoming the first self-published author to win a Nebula.
Introduction to HARP for Mentees
September 7, 2025 1:00 pm to
2:00 pm
We’re launching our Heritage Author Reproduction Project (HARP) on October 1, so here’s a great opportunity to get to know what mentorship will look like for potential mentees, ask questions, and firm up what you need to get ready.
Indie Author Spotlight Reading
September 7, 2025 4:00 pm to
5:30 pm
This year, the Nebulas celebrated indie publishing in fine form with the Andre Norton Award going to Vanessa Ricci-Thode, an indie-published author. Now it’s time to dive in and see what the rest of SFWA Indie is up to, with readings and author Q&As from some of our most dedicated members.
Comics Chat with Joe Kelly
September 13, 2025 2:00 pm to
3:00 pm
Please join the Comics Committee for September’s Comics Chat featuring Joe Kelly (Amazing Spiderman, I Kill Giants). Kelly will reveal the secrets of Marvel’s Character Wheel, a fantastic writing tool to create character and conflict, raise dramatic tension, and address powerful themes. For questions, please contact Jessica Maison at comics@sfwa.org.