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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 Skylark Award is Open for Nominations
Nominations will close Saturday November 16th. Regular members can 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.
The Pride of Chanur by C. J. Cherryh – December Book Discussion
The next NESFA Reading Group discussion will meet Friday, December 6th at 7pm to discuss The Player of Games by Iain Banks
2019–2020 Short Story Contest Now Open
The NESFA Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Story Contest for 2019 is now open. The winners will be announced at Boskone 57, February 14–16, 2020, at the Westin Waterfront Hotel in Boston, MA. Past winners are posted here.
2019 Worldcon in Dublin
This year’s Worldcon takes place in Dublin, Ireland, from August 15-19, 2019. Its guests include Diane Duane, Bill & Mary Burns, Ginjer Buchanan, Ian McDonald, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, and Steve Jackson, with featured artists: Afua Richardson, Jim Fitzpatrick, Maeve Clancy and Sana Takeda. Learn more about Dublin 2019.
Geri Sullivan: 2019 TAFF Delegate.
NESFA congratulates Geri Sullivan for winning the race for the 2019 TAFF Delegate.
Hugo Awards
NESFA congratulates Lois McMaster Bujold for winning the 2017 Best Series Hugo for The Vorkosigan Saga. NESFA Press editions of her first seven books are available.
NESFA Press
Dreamweaver’s Dilemma
by Lois McMaster Bujold
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
Friday
Book: The Pride of Chanur by C. J. Cherryh At the clubhouse.
Sunday
At the clubhouse.
Monday
A Maker Space for Making Fiction At the clubhouse.
Sunday
1pm and 2 pm, respectively At the clubhouse.
Monday
A Maker Space for Making Fiction At the clubhouse.
Tuesday
Book: The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley At the clubhouse.
Monday
A Maker Space for Making Fiction At the clubhouse.
Wednesday
Please remember to bring your own food because almost all restaurants in the neighborhood will be closed on this day. At the clubhouse.
Wednesday
Tuesday
