Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:42:50 -0500
To: WSFA List <wsfalist at wsfa.org>
From: Elspeth Kovar <ekovar at worldnet.att.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Text from flyer for website
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(The flyer, BTW, is gorgeous.)

Capclave - the Microbrew of Science Fiction
Conventions - is hosted by the Washington
Science Fiction Association (www.wsfa.org)

14 - 16 October 2005
Hilton Silver Spring
Silver Spring, Maryland

See www.capclave.org
for reservation information
after 18 March 2005

$119 (single/double)
$129 (triple/quad)
King One Bedroom Suite
$159 (single/double/triple/quad)
(plus 12% room taxes)

GUESTS OF HONOR

howard WALDROP
award winning writer

patrick NIELSEN HAYDEN
editor and musician

teresa NIELSEN HAYDEN
editor and writer

MEMBERSHIPS
$30 until 31 May 2005
Capclave 2005
7113 Wayne Drive
Annandale, VA 22003-1734
www.capclave.org * info at capclave.org

HOWARD WALDROP's first sale to a professional
magazine was "Lunchbox", which appeared in the May
1972 Analog. His unique fiction has consistently been
nominated for the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy
Awards. Although Howard does not own a computer,
SFF.net hosts a web site for him at www.sff.net/people/
Waldrop/.

PATRICK NIELSEN HAYDEN edits books for Tor
Books, teaches writing at the annual Viable Paradise
workshop, and plays guitar in the band Whisperado.
His Starlight 1 original anthology won the 1997 World
Fantasy Award. Jo Walton's Tooth and Claw, which
recently won the World Fantasy Award, was acquired
and published by Patrick. Patrick's weblog may be found
at www.nielsenhayden.com/electrolite/.

TERESA NIELSEN HAYDEN is also a book editor at
Tor Books and an instructor at the Viable Paradise writing
workshop. Teresa edited Robert Charles Wilson's
Blind Lake, which won Canada's Prix Aurora and was
a finalist for the 2004 Hugo Award. Her collection of
essays, Making Book, was nominated for the 1995
Hugo for Best Non-Fiction Book. Teresa's weblog may
be found at www.nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/.

CAPCLAVE 2005 PROGRAMMING

Capclave is a small relaxed literary convention with a
program that usually focuses on the short fiction form.
Our Guests of Honor and other notable authors, editors,
artists, and fans of the short fiction form will explore
the creation and enjoyment of short fantasy and
science fiction genre stories.

Past Capclaves have hosted literary discussions with
authors and fans; readings by authors; a dealer's room
with books, magazines, artwork, crafts, and other science
fiction and fantasy related items; exhibits by artists;
space science presentations from NASA; a con suite;
room parties; interesting conversations with other fans
and professionals; and a relaxed atmosphere for visiting
with old friends and meeting new friends.

HOTEL

This year Capclave is returning to the Silver Spring
Hilton, which was the home for Capclaves 2002 and
2003. The Hilton is easy to reach from the Capital
Beltway and a few blocks from the Silver Spring Metro
station. The new American Film Institute theater is located
two blocks from the hotel.

Preliminary list of participants, with many more to come:

catherine ASARO
brenda CLOUGH
gardner DOZOIS
andrew FOX
alexis GILLILAND
david HARTWELL
peter HECK
jane JEWELL
mindy KLASKY
eric KOTANI
l. jagi LAMPLIGHTER
sarah MICKLEM
benjamin ROSENBAUM
allen STEELE
michael SWANWICK
bud WEBSTER
john c. WRIGHT