FAQ: What is SFWA in charge of?***

Things SFWA is in charge of:

1. The Nebula Awards!
2. Writer Beware!
3. SFWA.org
4. GriefCom!
5. The SFWA Emergency Medical fund
6. The SFWA Bulletin and other publications that say “SFWA” on it like that one awesome cookbook with the super alcoholic Irish coffee recipe in.

Things SFWA is not in charge of:

1. Worldcon
2. The Hugo Awards
3. The success or failure of your book
4. Bees! (OR ARE THEY  AREN’T THEY?  AREN’T? ENGLISH IS HARD HELP)
5. This thing
6. The Hugo Awards
7. Any member’s personal website like this one oops
8. George RR Martin’s beret
9. People who pronounce nuclear like “nuke-YEW-ler.”
10. The Hugo Awards
11. The second law of thermodynamics
12. The way Cat Rambo’s hair keeps changing color, as if there’s nothing dependable left in this world and we’ll all just go spinning off into the void at any moment
13. The Permian extinction
14. El chupacabra
15. The way cilantro tastes soapy to some people and not to others
16. The Hugo Awards
17. Chemtrails
18. The really shitty traffic on the local highway you have to use every day
19. The Hugo Awards
20. Quantum entanglement
21. That mysterious glowing substance that you shouldn’t have licked but you did it anyway because you were a dumb teenager and in fifty years you’re probably going to die of eyeball spleen cancer
22. March Madness
23. The fact that we STILL do not have a Black Widow movie and yet Ant Man? Seriously?
24. HAARP
25. That garbage music kids these days listen to
26. The Hugo Awards
27. This guy
28. The fact that chocolate is so fattening goddammit SFWA why
29. Bacon, cats, or John Scalzi
30. That you can never find a pen when you need one
31. Or that you finally find a pen and IT IS ALWAYS OUT OF INK
32. Rainbow suspenders (or “embarrassingly enthusiastic weather braces” for our British readers)
33. That thing on Donald Trump’s head
34. The Hugo Awards
35. THE MOTHERFUCKING HUGO AWARDS

I hope this clears things up.

*** – I am not an officer in SFWA. I am not speaking in an official capacity for SFWA. This website is not sanctioned by SFWA. I keep trying to text SFWA and it won’t return my texts any more either, I don’t know, maybe it’s just busy? Call me, baby.