The SFWA Poetry Committee hosts a quarterly open mic for our poets. This is an unrecorded meetup where we share our work with each other. You are welcome to read works in progress or published work in the privacy of Zoom. (You are also welcome to just listen!)

At the half hour, our feature will be introduced and read for twenty minutes. This will be recorded and available on the events page to view. Bring a poem or two to read, hear our featured poet, and hang out afterwards.

Mari Ness spent much of her life wandering the world and reading. This, naturally, trained her to do just one thing: write. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous print and online publications, including Reactor.com, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Fireside, Apex Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, Nightmare, Strange Horizons, Uncanny, The Sunday Morning Transport, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, Nature Futures, and Haven Spec. Reactor.com has featured several of her essay series, includi

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The SFWA Emerging Technology panel offers a hype-free discussion of how large language models work, and debunks some common areas of confusion. We'll talk about what they're good at, what they're likely to remain bad at, where they harm creators, and the risks involved with using them. And we'll talk about the difference between chatbots and non-generative AI methods. Our goal is to help attendees make mindful decisions about what role (if any) you want AI to play in your work, enforce those boundaries with employers and in software settings, and have something coherent to say to friends who "just asked ChatGPT.""AI" is everywhere these days, both in familiar software and in the discourse. In a lot of quarters, you'll hear claims that it will inevitably take over all j

A monthly chat (days/times vary) hosted by the mg/ya steering committee and open to all SFWA members interested in writing for middle grade and young adult readers. Quarterly (January, April, July, and October), these chats are open to Constellation alums and friends.