Nebula Award News

2016 Nebula nominations are now open!

A work may be nominated by an Active, Lifetime Active, Associate or Lifetime Associate member (with no fiduciary interest–which means, not the writer, not the editor, the agent, publicist,) during the nomination period, which runs November 15 of the eligibility year through February 15 of the following year. An author doesn’t have to be a member of SFWA in order for her work to be considered. The six works in each category with the greatest number of nominations become the finalists for the Nebula Awards® for that year.

The best way to have a work considered is to make sure that it is available to be read by SFWA members; SFWA members can put a link to an electronic version of a work in the Fiction area on the SFWA forum. Non-members can ask a member or the Nebula Awards® Commissioner to post a link or document to the Forum. After that, the work and its writer are in the hands of the Fates

2017 Nebula Conference

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America’s 51st Annual Nebula Conference will be held in Pittsburgh, PA in 2017!

When: Thursday, May 18, 2017 at 1:00 PM – Sunday, May 21, 2017 at 4:00 PM (EDT)

Where: Pittsburgh Marriott City Center – 112 Washington Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15219

 More Information Can Be Found Here

Tickets

Attendee Rate: $180.00 (+$9.99 fee)

This special rate will be available starting March 1, 2017.

2016 Nebula Award Showcase Now Available

The Nebula Awards® Showcase volumes have been published annually since 1966, reprinting the winning and nominated stories of the Nebula Awards®, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).  This year’s Showcase celebrates fifty years of the awards. The editor, selected by SFWA’s anthology Committee, is American science fiction and fantasy writer Mercedes Lackey.  This year’s Nebula winners are Ursula Vernon, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Nancy Kress, and Jeff VanderMeer, with Alaya Dawn Johnson winning the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Book.

Closer Look: John Hodgman – Nebula Awards® Toastmaster

hodgemanJohn Hodgman is the longtime Resident Expert on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and the host of the popular Judge John Hodgman Podcast. He has also appeared on Conan, The Late Late Show, @midnight, and This American Life. The Village Voice named his show RAGNAROK one of the top ten stand up specials of 2013 and in 2015 toured his new show VACATIONLAND. He has performed comedy for the President of the United States and George RR Martin, discussed love and alien abduction at the TED conference, and voiced the Father and Other Father in the film Coraline, and now he wants to talk to you.