The National Space Society of North Texas is hosting an Art Contest & a Poetry Contest for 2012. Both are free to enter and have cash prizes and an opportunity to be published in their upcoming anthology. This year's theme is: MARS: THE NEXT FRONTIER For poetry and art contest guidelines, see their website at www.NSSofNT.org or see the NSSofNT Poetry Contest webpage or the NSSofNT Art Contest...

Member Bill Ledbetter won 1st place winner in the Writers of the Future contest, for this year's second quarter. His story will be published in the Writers of the Future Anthology, Volume 28. Congrats, Bill!

NTSFW member Gerald Warfield's poem, "Rivers Do Not Flow Within", is published at From The Depths. Congratulations, Gerald! Read "Rivers Do Not Flow Within"   Gerald Warfield’s short story “Poly Islands” won second prize in the first quarter of the 2011 Writers of the Future Contest. His humorous story “The Origin of Third Person in Paleolithic Epic Poetry” took first place this year in the national...

  Gerald Warfield's poem, "A Greater Moon," has received a nomination for the Rhysling Award, an annual award given for speculative (sci-fi or fantasy) poetry. Nominees for each year's Rhysling Awards are selected by the membership of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. The winning works are regularly reprinted in the Nebula Awards Anthology from the membership of the Science Fiction Poetry Associ...

On the day Gerald's poem debuted in the ezine NewMyths.com, He got a call from Writers of the Future informing him that his story, "Poly Islands", placed 2nd in the Writers of the Future Contest (1st quarter). This story he originally wrote at Odyssey, but honed it with critiques from NTSFW members.  

Several NTSFW members are published in a new anthology: Short & Twisted. Congratulations! Short & Twisted is an anthology of dark tales where nothing is as what it seems. Published in the anthology are Shawn Scarber, Lorelei Buckley, Becky Burkheart, Tricia Ferguson, Emma Aprea (Author),), Autumn Shelley (Author), William Ledbetter,Amy Oakley, and Christian P. Lambright (Illustrator).

NTSFW member Gerald Warfield just announced that he will be published in Every Day Fiction, an online daily flash fiction website. His story is "Stonehenge in His Garden."   Congratulations, Gerald!

One of 2 local SF/F cons, CondFW begins today, Friday Feburary 17, 2012, and ends Sunday February 19, 2012, in Dallas, TX. This year's guest of honor is Cherie Priest.