Latest News
The NESFA Clubhouse is closed for now.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, NESFA has closed down access to the clubhouse for now. We’ll consider reopening and restarting our regular Wednesday evening get-togethers, game & media days, and reading & writing groups when the authorities allow moderate-sized gatherings. NESFA Business and Boskone Meetings will continue online at least until somewhat larger gatherings are allowed.
If you have a book borrowed from our Library, please email library[at]nesfa.org to be informed when we are open again to return your books.
Welcome to the NESFA website!
Our website is comprehensive, covering a wide variety of activities, information, and services that NESFA provides to the speculative community and to our members. If you are looking for information that you don’t see listed here, please contact us at info[at]nesfa.org. For questions or problems with the website, contact us at web[at]nesfa.org. You can also send news item suggestions to newsworthy[at]nesfa.org, and for events and activities to calendar[at]nesfa.org.
The 2021 Gaughan Award
The recipient of the 2021 Gaughan Award is Hilary Clarq.
The Gaughan Award honors the memory of Jack Gaughan, a long-time friend of fandom and one of the finest SF artists of the 20th century. Because Jack felt it was important to encourage and recognize new blood in the field, The New England Science Fiction Association, Inc., presents the Gaughan Award annually to an emerging artist (an artist who has become a professional within the past five years) chosen by a panel of judges.
The winner of the 2022 Gaughan Award will be announced in February during Boskone59, NESFA’s annual convention.
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke – March Book Discussion
The next NESFA Reading Group discussion will meet via Zoom on Friday, March 5th at 7pm to discuss Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
2020 Chesley Award Winners
NESFA congratulates the winners of the 2020 Chesley Awards.
In particular, Eric Wilkerson (Boskone 57 Official Artist) won for Best Cover: Hardback Book – Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia (Rick Riordan Presents / October 2019) and John Picacio (Boskone 47 Official Artist) won for Best Interior Illustration – Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron Books/Macmillan / September 2019).
New ebooks by Zenna Henderson
Ingathering: The Complete People Stories of Zenna Henderson, one of our best-selling hardcover books is now available in ebook format. And we now have its eagerly awaited companion book Believing: The Other Stories of Zenna Henderson in both hardcover and ebook format.
Erin Underwood wins the 2020 DUFF
The Down Under Fan Fund announced that Erin Underwood has won the Down Under Fan Fund race and will become the new North American Administrator to the fund. She won an outright majority on the first ballot.
A quote from the news release: With CoNZealand being a virtual Worldcon this year and Covid-19, Erin will not be traveling to New Zealand this year, but hopes to travel to Australasia in the DUFF tradition in 2021, health and world events permitting.
The 2021 Skylark Award
The 2021 Skylark Award is now closed for Nominations. The 2021 Skylark recipient will be announced at the Boskone 58 awards ceremony on Saturday, February 14, 2021.
Nominations closed at the end of 2020. Skylark 2022 nominations will open after the NESFA Annual meeting in May. Regular members may then place their nominations in the Skylark Award mail box in the clubhouse, or email them to skylark.noms@gmail.com. Learn more here about the E. E. Smith Memorial Award.
NESFA Press
Believing
by Zenna Henderson
A Lit Fuse
by Nat Segaloff
Threshold
by Roger Zelazny
Barrayar
by Lois McMaster Bujold
Making Conversation
by Teresa Nielsen Hayden
Call Me Joe
by Poul Anderson
Upcoming Events
Monday
A Maker Space for Making Fiction
Friday
Book: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
This meeting will be held online.
Sunday
Debriefing the Boskone we ran.
This meeting will be held online.
Monday
A Maker Space for Making Fiction
Sunday
2 am EST, beginning of daylight saving time; set clocks forward to 3 am EDT.
Sunday
The NESFA business meeting will start 2PM
This meeting will be held online.
Monday
A Maker Space for Making Fiction
Tuesday
Book: This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal el-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
This meeting will be held online.
Friday
Monday
A Maker Space for Making Fiction
Monday
A Maker Space for Making Fiction
Friday
Book: The Shockwave Rider and The Stone That Never Came Down by John Brunner
This meeting will be held online.
