Join the Comics Committee for the October Comics Chat featuring Paul Cornell. Paul is the writer of Who Killed Nessie? — a cozy contemporary fantasy mystery. Paul’s previous graphic novel The Witches of World War II was a Hugo nominee. Bring your questions and favorite reads for Paul’s presentation followed by an informal Q & A and chat about comics. For questions, please contact Jessica Maison at comics@sfwa.org.

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

Come chat with others in the SFF romance community about what you’ve been working on and your plans for the rest of the year! Bring any questions or hot topics you’d like to see us discuss in upcoming meet-ups and/or Discord threads. We’re looking forward to catching up with you! It’s been a while!

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

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

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?

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.

Space is limited for this event; please RSVP to (marysoonlee [at] gmail [dot] com).