Writing a novel and marketing a novel are entirely separate skillsets, but all authors must pitch their books at some point – to agents, to potential readers, and other professional connections. Join us to discuss how to distill your narrative into a memorable, compelling concept you can easily deliver.

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Read more about Perfecting the Pitch: Queries, One-Liners, and More

One of the most startling aspects of today’s artificial intelligence landscape has been the rapidity with which it has recently developed. What is a science fiction writer to do when new breakthroughs arrive faster than submission responses? Our panel brings you the basics you need to understand and write about what you’re seeing, their thoughts on trends to watch, and developments that are (probably) still safely far off.

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Read more about Writing a Moving Target: AI for the Bewildered

Authors, code-breakers, language lovers (and haters): It’s not as hard as you think to begin crafting a new language. Using simple approaches, we’ll begin building a language together, looking at culture, grammar, alphabets, and more. Tools anyone can use!

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Read more about Inventing Language

The Sauútiverse is an African collective initiative, drawing from the Swahili word ‘sauti’ that means ‘voice’ to create a five-planet system orbiting a binary star. A world rooted deeply in a variety of African mythology, language, and culture. Sauúti weaves in an intricate magic system based on sound, oral traditions and music.

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Read more about Sauúti: An Afro-centric universe

Video and tabletop games offer their audiences the unique opportunity to engage in the character development, worldbuilding, and direction of a narrative. Game writers and enthusiasts discuss how designing, writing for, and even playing games can improve an author’s skills and imagination.

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Read more about Authors Growing through Gaming

Join a panel of experts from the tabletop and video game industries to learn the basics about writing for games and the different approaches needed to excel in the various categories. The panel will discuss topics ranging from worldbuilding to character development to branching plotlines and beyond.

Read more about Game Writing 101: The Differences Between Writing for TableTop Games, Video Games, and Game Fiction

Join authors as they discuss how they approach the future of this genre and this planet in their work, taking on ever-evolving climate fiction themes of solarpunk, futurisms, optimism and grief, the role of activist literature, and how other works subliminally or explicitly address our relationship with our environment.

Read more about Climate Fiction: Adaptation to a new Literary Landscape

Join us as we highlight the experiences of Asian writers who publish in English language and US markets. Asian writers from across the globe will compare their craft, share tropes and traditions, and celebrate their influences.

Read more about Outside the Western Anglophone Hegemony: A Conversation on Writing by Asian Writers

Every year as part of the Nebula Conference, SFWA holds a member business meeting where the Board of Directors, the Executive Director, and other staff and key volunteers talk to you about what we’re doing and where the organization is going, as well as respond to your questions.

Read more about 2022 Summer SFWA Member Business Meeting

Invited to an event to give a live reading of your work? Professional narrators are here to help with tips and tricks to win over your audience, combat the nerves, prepare for your reading.

Read more about Live Readings: So, You’ve Been Asked to Read Your Work in Front of Actual Humans…