New Members

We’ll have new members to report next month, as I’m still waiting on information to be able to add some new members to our directory. In the meantime, if you’re interested in joining (or know someone who is), find out how here!

Member News

Donald Jacob Uitvlugt’s story “From Hell’s Heart” has appeared at NewMyths.com, and  Mary E. Lowd’s story “Songs of Fish and Flowers” is online at Lakeside Circus. Jess E. Owen’s latest novel in the Summer King Chronicles, A Shard of Sun, is now available for Kindle. The stories of Vixyy Fox are being featured on the website of Dog Is My Co-Pilot, Inc, a nonprofit organization that helps find homes for shelter dogs at risk of euthanasia. And Eduardo Soliz has been busy — his Fuzzy Words: The Con Fluff Collection is now available on Amazon, his microfiction “Special Patient” appears on BigWorldNetwork.com, and his story “Epiphany” appeared in the Furry Fiesta 2015 conbook.

Our associate members have been busy, too. Jay was a guest on the Furballd podcast, and Weasel has a short story in the latest edition of Earth is Huge and We’re All On It, as well as three poems in Crazy Concrete.

(Members: Want your news here? Start a thread in our Member News forum!)

Market News

Upcoming deadlines:  Claw the Way to Victory has an extended deadline now of May 1, and submissions to Weasel Press’ Typewriter Emergencies close on May 1. See our Paying Markets page for more info, and get your stories in!

In conbook news, Anthrocon’s conbook closes to submissions on May 1, and Megaplex’s closes on May 22. (See our conbook page for info and links.)

Openings: The furry anthology Fragments of Life’s Heart is now open for submissions (deadline August 15).

Remember to keep an eye on our Calls for Submissions thread and our Publishing and Marketing forum for the latest news and openings!

Guild News

FWG election season has begun, and any members wishing to run for the office of president must announce their intent by the end of April.  Emails will be sent to members as crucial election deadlines approach, but please also keep an eye on the Guild Election subforum for election announcements, debate, and news!

Cóyotl Award nominations will also be opening soon! Watch their website and Twitter feed for updates.

In other award news, thank you to all those who nominated the FWG site in the Best Website category of the Ursa Major Awards. Some of our members’ works also received nominations; you can see the full list of the 2014 nominees on the front page of their website.

Check out Weasel‘s review of our first anthology, Tales From the Guild: Music to Your Ears.

We’re always open for guest blog post submissions! Good exposure and a great way to help out your fellow writers. See our guidelines for full details.

Need a beta reader? Check out our critique board (you’ll need to be registered with the forum in order to view it).

Want to hang out and talk shop with other furry writers? Come join us for the Coffeehouse Chats, Tuesdays at 7 p.m. Eastern, Thursdays at 12 p.m. Eastern, and Saturdays at 5 p.m. Eastern (new time!) — all held right in the forum shoutbox. More info here.

Remember, our forums are open to everyone, not just FWG members. Come register and join the conversation!

That’s all for this month! As always, send an email to furwritersguild (at) gmail.com with news, suggestions, and other feedback, or just comment here.

New Members

Welcome to our newest member Kris Schnee!

Member News

Mary E. Lowd has had stories published in Apex and Daily Science Fiction, Renee Carter Hall’s “The Frog Who Swallowed the Moon” appears in the latest volume of Spark: A Creative Anthology, Patrick “Bahumat” Rochefort’s serial From Winter’s Ashes has posted chapter 1.3, and the latest novel by Rose LaCroix, The Vimana Incident, is now available from FurPlanet.

(Members: Want your news here? Start a thread in our Member News forum!)

Market News

Upcoming deadlines: Anthologies ROAR #6 and Claw the Way to Victory close to submissions on April 1, and submissions to Weasel Press’ Typewriter Emergencies close on May 1. See our Paying Markets page for more info, and get your stories in!

Openings: The third volume of Rabbit Valley’s Trick or Treat anthology series is now open for submissions (deadline June 1).

Remember to keep an eye on our Calls for Submissions thread and our Publishing and Marketing forum for the latest news and openings!

Guild News

Today’s the last day to get your responses in for the 2015 Member Feedback Survey! See this thread in the member forums for the links to the 2-part survey.

We’re still open for guest blog post submissions! Good exposure and a great way to help out your fellow writers. See our guidelines for the details.

Need a beta reader? Check out our critique board (you’ll need to be registered with the forum in order to view it).

Want to hang out and talk shop with other furry writers? Come join us for the Coffeehouse Chats, Tuesdays at 7 p.m. Eastern, Thursdays at 12 p.m. Eastern, and Saturdays at 8 p.m. Eastern — all held right in the forum shoutbox. More info here. Remember, our forums are open to everyone, not just FWG members. Come register and join the conversation!

That’s all for this month! As always, send an email to furwritersguild (at) gmail.com with news, suggestions, and other feedback, or just comment here.

New Members

Welcome to our newest member MikasiWolf!

Member News

The latest anthology from editor Fred Patten, The Furry Future, features 19 furry-themed science fiction stories (or science-fiction-themed furry stories, your call), with at least 15 of those stories coming from FWG members.

FurPlanet’s anthology Five Fortunes (also edited by Fred Patten, and featuring novellas from several members) is now available as an ebook from Bad Dog Books, and you can read FWG member Dronon’s review of it here at Claw & Quill. In other review news, you can now find Fred Patten’s reviews posted at Dogpatch Press.

Eduardo Soliz has just released Con Fluff 3: Nine Charming Furry Short Stories, his third collection of “furry super-short conbook stories”.

Patrick “Bahumat” Rochefort’s From Winter’s Ashes continues with Chapter 1.1 and Chapter 1.2 now posted.

Some of our associate members have been busy too — Jay launched a new blog, and Weasel has a new book review blog himself, along with another story in the literary magazine Earth Is Huge And We Are All On It.

(Members: Want your news here? Start a thread in our Member News forum!)

Market News

Just opened: From Weasel Press, a furry anthology called Typewriter Emergencies, looking for “dark and existential fiction focusing around the theme of ‘These Things Shall Pass/It’s a mad world out there.'” Deadline is May 1, and full details are here.

Other anthologies currently remain open with spring deadlines — check out our Paying Markets page for more info, and remember to keep an eye on our Calls for Submissions thread and our Publishing and Marketing forum for the latest news and openings!

Guild News

The links to the 2015 Member Feedback Survey were sent out to all FWG members in an email dated January 30. If it’s not in your inbox (or your spam folder), please see this thread in the member forums for links to the 2-part survey. Both parts close on March 2, so please don’t wait to get your responses in.

We had a successful meet and greet at Further Confusion in January — you can check out the notes from that meet in this forum thread. (Thanks again to Daniel for taking all those notes, and to all those who hosted and attended, whether at the con or virtually via the shoutbox.)

There’s a quick update on the Cóyotl Awards here at the award blog.

Fred Patten has reviewed the FWG’s first anthology, Tales From the Guild: Music to Your Ears, over at Dogpatch Press.

A reminder to members: We’re open for guest blog post submissions! Good exposure and a great way to help out your fellow writers. See our guidelines for the details.

Need a beta reader? Check out our critique board (you’ll need to be registered with the forum in order to view it).

Want to hang out and talk shop with other furry writers? Come join us for the Coffeehouse Chats, Tuesdays at 7 p.m. Eastern, Thursdays at 12 p.m. Eastern, and Saturdays at 8 p.m. Eastern — all held right in the forum shoutbox. More info here. Remember, our forums are open to everyone, not just FWG members. Come register and join the conversation!

That’s all for this month! As always, send an email to furwritersguild (at) gmail.com with news, suggestions, and other feedback, or just comment here.

New Members

Welcome to our newest member R. A. Meenan!

Member News

Gene Breshears’ story “The Luminous Pearl, or the Second Tail of Sora” was published in July in North American Fur and is now available online.

Renee Carter Hall released her holiday ebook Wishing Season (Amazon / Smashwords) and also has anthro-themed stories in the first issue of STRAEON and in Stories in Future Tense: The 2015 Word Branch Publishing Science Fiction Anthology.

Huskyteer’s ebook Learners, featuring two short stories, is now available from Bad Dog Books and Amazon (US / UK).

Rose LaCroix’s novel The Linen Butterfly (sequel to The Goldenlea) is scheduled to debut at Further Confusion this month. Check out the cover here!

Mary E. Lowd’s space opera fable “The Little Red Avian Alien” was published in Luna Station Quarterly.

Patrick “Bahumat” Rochefort has launched his new web serial From Winter’s Ashes and will begin regular updates this July.

James L. Steele’s novel Huvek is now available as an ebook, and his short story “The Cable” appears in Abandoned Places.

And our associate member Weasel has two poems in the holiday anthology To Hold a Moment Still and also has a story in the latest issue of the literary magazine Earth Is Huge And We Are All On It.

(Members: Want your news here? Start a thread in our Member News forum!)

Market News

Several anthologies currently remain open with spring deadlines — check out our Paying Markets page for more info, and remember to keep an eye on our Calls for Submissions thread and our Publishing and Marketing forum for the latest news and openings!

Guild News

Members — we’re open for guest blog post submissions for 2015! Good exposure and a great way to help out your fellow writers. See our guidelines for the details.

Need a beta reader? Check out our critique board (you’ll need to be registered with the forum in order to view it).

Remember, our forums are open to everyone, not just FWG members. Come register and join the conversation!

Want to hang out and talk shop with other furry writers? Come join us for the Coffeehouse Chats, Tuesdays at 7 p.m. Eastern, Thursdays at 12 p.m. Eastern (but no chat today because of the holiday), and Saturdays at 8 p.m. Eastern — all held right in the forum shoutbox. More info here.

That’s all for this month! As always, send an email to furwritersguild (at) gmail.com with news, suggestions, and other feedback, or just comment here.

New Members

Welcome to our new members T. S. McNally, Ajax Baback Coriander, Dronon, and our newest associate member Weasel, of Weasel Press!

Member News

In media-related news, M. C. A. Hogarth was interviewed for Publishers Weekly, and Tempe “Tempo” O’Kun was interviewed on Prairie Public radio.

Book birthdays! Vixyy Fox’s Reach for the Sky is now available in print format from Weasel Press, Jay has released his latest novel Impossible Magic (sequel to Axinstone), available from Jaffa Books, and Michael H. Payne has released Neighbors.

In anthology news, Abandoned Places is now available, edited by Tarl “Voice” Hoch and featuring stories from Rechan, Bill “Hafoc” Rogers, T. D. Coltraine, John Lynne, Adam “Nicodemus” Riggs, Ianus J. Wolf, Roland Jovaik, David Ramirez, Patrick “Bahumat” Rochefort, Taylor Stark, Kandrel, Tarl “Voice” Hoch, Ryan Campbell, Ben Goodridge, James L. Steele, and Tonin. (If any of you non-linked guys are actually members under a different name, my apologies — the various pen names can be kind of tough to keep up with sometimes.) You can see all of FurPlanet’s new and upcoming releases here.

(Members: Want your news here? Start a thread in our Member News forum!)

Market News

Upcoming deadlines: The Rabbit Valley anthology Fur to Skin: Straight Up closes to submissions on December 30, and the erotic lesbian shapeshifter anthology Song of the Wilds closes on December 31 (details on both can be found on our Paying Markets page).

Just opened:  Applications are open for Sean Rivercritic’s “Furry Novel in 20 Voices” project. Full details here. Spaces in that project are reportedly filling up fast, so get yours in soon if you’re interested.

Guidelines for the Rainfurrest 2015 anthology are now available here.

(As always, remember to keep an eye on our Calls for Submissions thread and our Publishing and Marketing forum for the latest openings and news!)

Just added: You can find Weasel Press listed on our Novels and Other Works page of the Furry Writers’ Market.

Guild News

The ebook version of Tales From the Guild: Music to Your Ears is now available from Rabbit Valley! (The ZIP file includes PDF, mobi, and ePub formats, without DRM.)

Want to hang out and talk shop with other furry writers? Come join us for the Coffeehouse Chats, Tuesday evenings at 7 p.m. Eastern, Thursdays at noon Eastern (starting this week), and Saturday nights at 8 p.m. Eastern — all held right in our newly upgraded forum shoutbox. More info here. (Remember, our forums are open to everyone, not just FWG members. If you haven’t stopped by yet, come register and join the conversation!)

Members — want to write a guest blog post for us? See our guidelines.

That’s all for this month! As always, email furwritersguild (at) gmail.com with news or suggestions, or just comment here.

New Members

Welcome to our new members Arcane Reno, Yannarra Cheena, and Andres Cyanni Halden!

Member News

Trick or Treat Volume Two: Historical Halloween is now available from Rabbit Valley, edited by member Ianus J. Wolf and featuring horror “tricks” from Huskyteer, Jason “Houston” Walther, NightEyes DaySpring, Slip-Wolf, Bill “Hafoc” Rogers, and Tarl “Voice” Hoch, as well as erotic “treats” from Whyte Yoté, Chris “Sparf” Williams, Roland Jovaik, and Ianus J. Wolf.

Vixyy Fox has teamed up with artist Cara Bevan to bring us the children’s book Improbable… Never Impossible, also now available from Rabbit Valley.

Renee Carter Hall will be the writer Guest of Honor at Rainfurrest 2015. (And she still find it weird talking about herself in third person in the newsletter.)

Check out Paul Kidd‘s Indiegogo campaign for the GeneStorm RPG.

Associate member Jay was interviewed over at The Dragons’ Geas.

Feel like listening to a werewolf love song? (Who doesn’t?) Check out Daniel Lowd’s “Walking in the Moonlight” on YouTube.

(Members: Want your news here? Start a thread in our Member News forum!)

Market News

Upcoming deadlines: Further Confusion’s conbook has a deadline of November 15 (details at our conbook page), and the Rabbit Valley anthology Fur to Skin: Ladies First closes to submissions on November 30 (details at our Paying Markets page).

Just opened: Furry sports anthology to be published by Jaffa Books – see the guidelines here. (Remember to keep an eye on our Calls for Submissions thread and our Publishing and Marketing forum for the latest openings and news!)

Guild News

Doing NaNoWriMo this month? We’ve got a thread for that. And if you’ve got something you need a beta for at any time of year, we have a critique board in our forum (you’ll need to be registered with the forum in order to view it). Remember, our forums are open to everyone, not just FWG members. Come register and join the conversation!

Want to hang out and talk shop with other furry writers? Come join us for the Coffeehouse Chats, Tuesday evenings at 7 p.m. Eastern and now Saturday nights at 8 p.m. Eastern — both held right in the forum shoutbox. More info here. (On a related note, we have new conduct guidelines for the shoutbox; please be sure to have a look here before you chat.)

Members — want to write a guest blog post for us? See our guidelines.

That’s all for this month! As always, send an email to furwritersguild (at) gmail.com with news, suggestions, and other feedback, or just comment here.