SFWA Nebula Awards Conference Chicago 2026
Wednesday, June 3 - 7, 2026
9:00 PM - 3:00 PM
The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) is gearing up to a phenomenal outing in Chicago, where we will convene this June 3-7 for our 61st Annual Nebula Awards Conference and Nebula Awards Ceremony.
The Nebula Finalists are set, and our 42nd Grand Master N. K. Jemisin has paved quite the ambitious trail for us to venture along for this year’s professional development offerings.
Did you know that “worldbuilding” is the most commonly searched term in our extensive resource offerings at Planetside: The Online Magazine of SFWA?
It’s often at the core of what we do as writers, and yet the term is packed with tension and contradiction. Do writers ever really “build” worlds, or are we simply in the business of twisting, refining, and reimagining the worlds to which we belong? Is our work as speculative writers ever really an “escape”, or are we always in deep dialogue with explicit and implicit rules and contracts around us?
Chewy questions like these helped to inspire the theme for our 61st Nebula Awards Conference. This year, we are exploring Worldbuilding and Worldbreaking, in tribute to the work of this year’s Damon Knight Memorial Award Grand Master, N. K. Jemisin. Our programming will foster professional development and writing craft by celebrating worldbuilding on the page, in our broader genre community, in the world at large, in history, and works of alt-history.
The Nebula Finalists are set, and our 42nd Grand Master N. K. Jemisin has paved quite the ambitious trail for us to venture along for this year’s professional development offerings.
Did you know that “worldbuilding” is the most commonly searched term in our extensive resource offerings at Planetside: The Online Magazine of SFWA?
It’s often at the core of what we do as writers, and yet the term is packed with tension and contradiction. Do writers ever really “build” worlds, or are we simply in the business of twisting, refining, and reimagining the worlds to which we belong? Is our work as speculative writers ever really an “escape”, or are we always in deep dialogue with explicit and implicit rules and contracts around us?
Chewy questions like these helped to inspire the theme for our 61st Nebula Awards Conference. This year, we are exploring Worldbuilding and Worldbreaking, in tribute to the work of this year’s Damon Knight Memorial Award Grand Master, N. K. Jemisin. Our programming will foster professional development and writing craft by celebrating worldbuilding on the page, in our broader genre community, in the world at large, in history, and works of alt-history.
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