Saturday June 12 at 6pm
Our next meeting is Saturday, June 12, at 6pm at the Hurst Barnes and Noble Bookstore. We will be meeting at our regular time and the deadline for uploading your submissions for critique is Sunday (today) at midnight.
If you’re not a member of NTSFW, come visit us any 2nd Saturday night to see how we conduct our group meetings. We are a writer’s workshop focusing on the speculative fiction genre and our intent is to write to publish. We have both published and unpublished writers, as well as beginning writers and experienced writers in our group.
Hope to see you there!
Readings May 8th
On Saturday, May 8th, NTSFW had their first public reading at the Hurst Barnes & Noble Bookstore. What a great group of reads!
I’d like to thank Georgette and Barnes & Noble for allowing us to use their wonderful bookstore as our meetingplace. Georgette has been our staunch supporter and the bookstore manager, Brian, and the staff have been so helpful and patient with us. Thanks! Your efforts on our behalf do not go unnoticed nor unnappreciated.
NTSFW Reading Aloud Sat May 8
NTSFW members will be reading from their original work aloud Saturday, May 8, starting at 4:30 p.m. before our regular monthly meeting at the Hurst Barnes & Noble Bookstore.
Members will read from either published works or work in progress. This event is free and open to the public.
Come join us Saturday afternoon with a coffee and snack and good reads!
28th Dimension Anthology Update
Contracts are being emailed out this weekend to the authors of the 28th Dimension: Tales From the Texas Zone Anthology. Please let me know if you should have gotten a contract and didn’t.
Please check the 28th Dim page for updates and notices.
Tom speaks out at NPR
Tom’s radio commentary on the Thomas Jefferson/Texas Textbook controversy runs multiple times today (April 7) on NPR Morning Edition, about 500,000 listeners according to the rating services. Although this story stems from the Texas school curriculum, it has run on all the national media and cable news shows since the whole textbook industry follows Texas guidelines.
Tom says: It’s been awhile since I’ve done one of these: with all the fiction writing I promised myself I would not do another one unless something really enraged me, and here it is. To read and/or listen (audio will be posted only after the news show is over today at 9am Central time):
Story Challenge Update
2 new members!
Welcome Sarah and Ralph! Both attended last night’s meeting and decided to hang around 
. Welcome to NTSFW!
Gerald accepted to Odyssey
Member Gerald has been accepted to the prestigious Science Fiction and Fantasy Odyssey Workshop! There he’ll spend 6 long weeks studying the art of writing in the spec fic genres with the likes of Laura Anne Gilman, former editor at Berkley, Alexander Jablokov, Michael Arnzen, Gregory Frost, and David G. Hartwell.
Erin’s published book of poetry
Member Erin has published a book of poetry with Diminuendo Press called Napkin Poems.
March Story Challenge
The story challenge for March is to write a short story titled:
“The Accidental Sheep”
Contents of the story are yours to create!
Have fun and see you Saturday, March 13 at 6pm at the Hurst Barnes & Noble Bookstore!