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PHILCON is coming up! Our annual convention will be November 21-23, 2025 at the Doubletree Cherry Hill. You can register here or at the door, for one day or the whole weekend. Our monthly meeting will be held at Philcon, Friday November 21 at 8 pm.
Our December meeting will be on Friday, December 12 at 8 pm. Our guest speaker is the multi-award winning author Fran Wilde! This is an in-person meeting, held at St. Mary’s at Penn, 3916 Locust Walk, in the Parish building behind the Sanctuary. Questions: email us at info@psfs.org.
Two-time Nebula Award-winner Fran Wilde has (so far) published nine novels, a poetry collection, and over 70 short stories for adults, teens, and kids. Her stories have been finalists for six Nebula Awards, a World Fantasy Award, four Hugo Awards, four Locus Awards, and a Lodestar. They include her Nebula- and Compton Crook-winning debut novel Updraft, and her Nebula-winning, Best of NPR 2019, debut Middle Grade novel Riverland. Her short stories appear in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Tor.com, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Uncanny Magazine, and multiple years’ best anthologies.
The Managing Editor for The Sunday Morning Transport, Fran teaches or has taught for schools including Vermont College of Fine Arts’ MFA and St. Mary’s College of Maryland. She writes nonfiction for publications including The Washington Post, The New York Times, NPR, and Tor.com. You can find her on Instagram, Bluesky, and at franwilde.net.
PSFS meets monthly, usually on the second Friday of the month. Meetings feature a guest speaker known in the SFF community along with lively back-and-forth discussions.
Recent guests have included Carmen Maria Machado, A. C. Wise, Josiah Bancroft, Tom Purdom, Jon McGoran, Madeleine Miller, Fonda Lee, Caitlin Rozakis, Jeanne Cavelos, Jonathan Lethem, Vandana Singh, PJ Manney, Jason Sanford, John Wiswell, A. T. Greenblatt, Cat Rambo, Jo Walton, Stephanie Feldman, Ray Nayler, Premee Mohamed, Randee Dawn, Ellen Datlow, Walter Hunt, and Gregory Frost.
Our meetings now alternate between remote (via Zoom) and in-person. Locations for in-person meetings are either at St. Mary’s Church at Penn, 3916 Locust Walk, Philadelphia PA 19104, or the Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia PA 19104.