SFWA Election Result

Science Fiction Writers of America, having tallied and certified the ballots, has announced its officers for the next term starting July 1.

  • President: Cat Rambo
  • Vice President: M.C.A. Hogarth
  • Secretary: Susan Forest
  • Chief Financial Officer: Bud Sparhawk
  • Directors-at-Large: Jennifer Brozek, Matthew Johnson*, Lee Martindale*, Sarah Pinsker*, Tansy Rayner Roberts*  (*midterm incumbents not up for election this time)

Elected to two-year terms are incoming President Cat Rambo, Secretary Susan Forest and newly-elected Director-at-Large Jennifer Brozek.

Elected to one-year terms are CFO Bud Sparhawk, and Vice President M.C.A. Hogarth.

Next year SFWA will start alternating elections where the vice president, CFO, and a subset of directors-at-large will run in even years, with remaining board members running in odd years, with all terms of office lasting two years.

Current President Steven Gould and Director-at-Large Jim Fiscus serve through June 30.

18 thoughts on “SFWA Election Result

  1. For some reason it seem appropriate for a Sci-Fi/Fantasy group to be run by people with names like Cat Rambo and Bud Sparhawk.

  2. For some reason it seem appropriate for a Sci-Fi/Fantasy group to be run by people with names like Cat Rambo and Bud Sparhawk.

    THIS

    Congratulations to everyone.

  3. The truly funny thing about that list is that I have not read anything by any one of them…..and I buy a lot of books.
    So much for the relevance of SFWA and the Nebula Award to me.

  4. A correction. Matthew Johnson was up for re-election and won. He shouldn’t have an asterisk, or at least should have a different asterisk.

  5. “The truly funny thing about that list is that I have not read anything by any one of them…..and I buy a lot of books.”

    Great reason to expand your reading!

    Here’s a great resource in tracking down their works: http://isfdb.org/

  6. The truly funny thing about that list is that I have not read anything by any one of them…..and I buy a lot of books.

    Sparhawk regularly appears in Analog and is quite good.

    So much for the relevance of SFWA and the Nebula Award to me.

    You do realize that the officers of the SFWA don’t mandate who wins Nebula awards, don’t you?

  7. At first I thought Cat Rambo was a pen name. As far as I can tell, it is not. On that basis alone, I think she should be the permanent head of the SFWA.

  8. The truly funny thing about that list is that I have not read anything by any one of them…..and I buy a lot of books.
    So much for the relevance of SFWA and the Nebula Award to me

    If the truly funny thing is the idea that you have to be a well known author to qualify for being an officer of the organization, that is funny.

  9. “If the truly funny thing is the idea that you have to be a well known author to qualify for being an officer of the organization”

    I am old enough to remember being able to read most if not all of the SF published, and to be able to be aware and keep up with it. Ah, the 60s!!

    These days … I think a suitable punishment would be for someone to have to read all of the SF published in a year.

    Luckily there’s this internet thing – full of tubes it is! – that allows one to get answers to questions such as “Who the heck is …”.

  10. Rambo is primarily known as an editor, although she just put out a novel last month. MCA is extraordinarily prolific, writes (among other things) mil-SF. Forest and Sparhawk are reasonably well-known short story authors. Many of the directors are probably best known as editors.

    It is entirely possible that you have read books edited by various members, I couldn’t say.

    But…honestly, if you’re not a science fiction author yourself (and please tell me if you are!) then no, SFWA probably has no relevance to you. Why would it? It’s essentially a trade group. I have electric lights, but I could care less about the machinations of the Electrician’s Union. The “Best Wiring” Award on their website might prove their peers think highly of them, but I do not demand it therefore be personally relevant to my needs.

  11. Michael – I don’t know if that would be possible. I’d be happy if someone managed to take a quest to read all the self published Sci-Fi / Fantasy and from that wasteland came back with directions on where to find the good in that ever shifting landscape. Not sure they’d still be sane enough to do so however.

  12. Matt Y … that’s the point … forcing someone to read all the SF published in one year would probably be considered cruel and unusual punishment.

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