NTSFW

Aug 14 presentation: The Electric Universe Theory

admin — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:26:21 +0000

National Space Society of North Texas member Tom Zavist will present THE ELECTRIC UNIVERSE THEORY at 6:00 pm at the NTSFW August meeting, Saturday August 14 at the Hurst Barnes and Noble Bookstore.

This event is free and open to the public.

July Meeting was fun!

admin — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:10:18 +0000

Last night we met at the La Quinta Inn in Dallas because many of our group attended David Farland’s Professional Novel Writers’ Workshop this past week. Thanks everyone for coming out! Great crits and I learned a lot.

NTSFW July 10, 2010

Next Meeting: Sat July 10 NEW VENUE

admin — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:00:01 +0000

Just for July, we are meeting at the La Quinta Inn, Dallas (Coit & LBJ):

La Quinta Inn
7815A LBJ Freeway
Dallas, TX
(972) 616-2400

Still at our usual time, 6pm, in the lobby to start (we may sequester a room or conference room if we get too big, so check with hotel desk).

We are meeting at the hotel because David Farland is conducting his Professional Novel Writers’ Workshop that week there and he and the rest of the class is invited to attend our workshop. We’ll show them how a great workshop works with great writers! Visitors are welcome. There is no charge for our group.

If you have any questions, email us at NTSFW.Workshop@gmail.com

Saturday June 12 at 6pm

admin — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 23:05:13 +0000

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 We have both published and unpublished writers, as well as beginning writers and experienced writers in our group.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

admin — Sun, 09 May 2010 17:15:59 +0000

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

admin — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:57:29 +0000

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

admin — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 04:22:06 +0000

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.

Troy wins Lori Wilde Award

admin — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:19:31 +0000

NTSFW member Troy has won the Lori Wilde Award for fiction for his humorous short story ‘The Case Of The Golden Medallion’. At next Saturdays festivities at Weatherford College’s Books n Authors n All That Jazz, Troy will be presented a cash award by Lori Wilde herself, author of 53 published novels and an Alumna of Weatherford College. She personally chose the winner. Also, the story will be included in this years Canis Latrin Anthology. At the awards ceremony part of the story will be read aloud by one of the drama students or faculty.

Congrats Troy!

Tom speaks out at NPR

admin — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:40:31 +0000

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):

Click here for the text.

There is an SF component to this 3:30 spoken-word piece: I open with a quote from Orwell’s 1984 and tried to emulate his radical voice.

Thanks to everyone at NTSFW workshop who helped me on the edits in less than 24 hours. This form of only 500 words or less is VERY difficult, almost like a poem where you have to account for every syllable. It takes over ten minutes per word to do it justice.

I’m amazed they let me get away with the last line (you’ll have to listen to it): most people who the critiqued original draft liked the idea, but many thought it was over the top and would be cut by the News Director. If you read Chuck Palnhiuk’s PYGMY, he also uses this quote in the front piece and at the end, and it did inspire me. As Marshall McLuhan said, “Art is whatever you can get away with,” and I feel lucky to have slipped this one in.

Enjoy!

Gerald wins Honorable Mention at WOTF

admin — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:37:28 +0000

Congrats Gerald! His short story “Poly Islands” won honorable mention in the Writers of the Future Contest!

Gerald says, “… some of you may remember; it took place on islands of plastic waste in the Pacific. That story was greatly improved for having been passed through our group.”

Gerald also placed in the Abilene Writers Guild Contest in poetry for a short poem, “From a Picture”.

Way to go, Gerald!!