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October 26, 2025

November 01, 2025

Indie Author Meetup – Effective Promotional Graphic Designs – slides, reels, arrows and more!


November 1, 2025 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

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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: Effective graphics for promotion keep changing…so what’s working right now? Excerpts? Review Quotes? What kind of backgrounds, what kind of fonts, what colors are currently effective?

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November 02, 2025

November 09, 2025

November 15, 2025

Seminar 1.1 Contract Need-to-Knows for a Challenging Year in Industry


November 15, 2025 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm

We’re honored to host a conversation moderated by Victoria Strauss of Writer Beware, with agents Alice Speilburg and Natascha Morris, who can speak to the challenges writers face when protecting their rights as creators. In a year that has brought us many major industry discussions around AI piracy, merch clauses, moral rights waivers, copyright, and rights reversion, it’s time for seasoned and early professionals alike to empower ourselves and one another. This seminar has a hands-on learning component.

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Panel 1.2 Mutual Resilience: How SFF Writers Build Community On and Off the Page


November 15, 2025 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm

Sometimes art emulates life, and sometimes life emulates art. For writers who also do the work of developing stronger community networks, worldbuilding strategies show up in far more than plans for the latest story draft. What lessons for better community organizing can we take from SFF, and how does our work in community organizing improve the speculative tales we tell? This year at Quasar, four dynamic creators will invite you to think more ambitiously about how you dream up community – on the page, and in the world around you. Join us for a co-facilitated conversation between BrightFlame, Curtis Chen, and James Stegall.

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Panel 1.3 Centering Wellness as Creators


November 15, 2025 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm

One of the most important lessons writers learn over their careers is adaptation. There is no “one size fits all” for creative success, especially when each of us has a different relationship to disability, illness, and neuro-variation. What happens when that relationship is further changed mid-stream? When something that worked for you for years is now affected by new challenges? For Quasar, SFF creators share their experiences with adjusted workflows, and offer insight into centering wellness all along.

We’re delighted to be in conversation with Eugen Bacon, Scott Edelman, Vanessa Ricci-Thode, and Catherine Tavares.

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November 16, 2025

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