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Line 1: {{~~creator~~Useful Notes}} [[File:SFWA logo.png\|~~frame~~thumb\|300px]] The [[Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America]], or [[Artifact Title\|SFWA]] is a nonprofit organization of professional science fiction and fantasy writers in the United States. It was founded in 1965 by Damon Knight under the name Science Fiction Writers of America, Inc. As of 2014, it has about 1,800 professionally published writer members worldwide<ref>Including troper [[User:Looney Toons\|Looney Toons]], and maybe others.</ref>. As an organization, SFWA acts as an advocate to effect important changes within the publishing industry, especially among publishers of science fiction and fantasy, by promoting author-friendly copyright legislation, equitable treatment of authors, and fair contract terms. Line 10: == History == ''Science Fiction Writers of America, Inc.'' was founded in 1965 by a group of writers associated with the Milford Conference and headed by Damon Knight. Later, the name of the organization was changed to ''Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America'', although the acronym SFWA was not changed. According to Todd McCaffrey, the organization immediately "acquired great status in its efforts to help [[~~JRR Tolkien (Creator)\|~~J. R. R. Tolkien]] get fair recompense in America for pirated sales of ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Literature)\|The Lord of the Rings]]''." For many years it had a strong online presence on General Electric's [[GEnie]] online service, eventually taking over GEnie's Science Fiction RoundTable and turning it into the official online home of SFWA. == Awards == Line 32 ⟶ 34: [[Category:{{BASEPAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Creators]]▼ [[Category:Pages Original to All The Tropes]] [[Category:Pages with working Wikipedia tabs]] ▲[[Category:~~Creators~~Organization Index]] {{reflist}}