The SFWA Poetry Committee hosts a quarterly open mic for our poets. This is an unrecorded meetup where we share our work with each other. You are welcome to read works in progress or published work in the privacy of Zoom.

This month, our featured poet is SFPA Grand Master Linda D. Addison.

Linda D. Addison is the award-winning author of five collections, including The Place of Broken Things, written with Alessandro Manzetti, & How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend, and a recipient of the HWA Lifetime Achievement Award. She is the first African-American recipient of the HWA Bram Stoker Award®, co-editor of Sycorax’s Daughters, an anthology of horror fiction & poetry by African- American women, poetry editor of Space & Time Magazine since 2000, and editor of the 2018 Rhysling Anthology and the HWA StokerCon Anthology 2019. Her work has made frequent appearances over the years on the honorable mention list for Year’s Best anthology. She has a B.S. in Mathematics from Carnegie-Mellon University and currently lives in Arizona. Addison is a founding member of the writer’s group Circles in the Hair (CITH), and a member of HWA, SFWA and SFPA.

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A Writing Date is basically productivity through peer pressure and honestly, any co-working is welcome.

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A meeting of the speculative poetry book club. At the sixth meeting, we will discuss Katherine Quevedo’s chapbook “The Inca Weaver’s Tales,” winner of the 2025 Elgin Award. No poetry expertise required! The discussion will be run by Mary Soon Lee, a Grand Master of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association.

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The SFWA Independent Authors Committee invites you to join us at our virtual meetup. This month’s topic: What are the pitfalls for print production for indie authors? What do you need to know about distributors, pricing, hardcovers, and special editions? Let’s share our wisdom.

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Are you a SFWA member who’s writing YA or MG, or are interested in it? Come join our social hangout!

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The SFWA Independent Authors Committee invites you to join us at our virtual meetup. This month’s topic: What’s been happening in indie world during the first quarter of 2026? What’s hot, what’s not, what’s the latest to watch out for?

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The SFWA Independent Authors Committee invites you to join us at our virtual meetup. This month’s topic: What’s the secret to getting your ebooks seen by libraries? Which distributor works the best, what can you expect, and how does this differ by country? Let’s share our wisdom.

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Host: Gwynne Garfinkle
Featured Poet: Angela Liu

The SFWA Poetry Committee hosts a quarterly open mic for our poets. This is an unrecorded meetup where we share our work with each other. You are welcome to read works in progress or published work in the privacy of Zoom. (You are also welcome to just listen!) At the half hour, our feature will be introduced and read for twenty minutes. This will be recorded and available on the events page to view. Bring a poem or two to read, hear our featured poet, and hang out afterwards.

Angela Liu is a Chinese-American writer/poet based in NYC and Tokyo. She is a two-time Nebula Award and 2025 Astounding Award Finalist. Her work has also been nominated for the Hugo, Locus, Ignyte, and Rhysling Awards. She previously researched mixed reality at Keio University in Japan with a focus on new narrative platforms and tangible interfaces for remote communication. Her stories and poems are published/forthcoming in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, and Logic(s), among others. Check out more of her work at liu-angela.com or find her on Instagram @liu_angela and on Bluesky @angelaliu.bsky.social.

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