Balticon

The annual balticon convention provides members with panels, speakers and special exhibits as well as movies, videos, book sellers, associated gaming, associated art and other related items. Bsfs resumed holding a live convention after two consecutive years as a virtual convention. For the first time, attendance both in person and electronically were available.

Hosted a semi-monthly workshop for writers on the second and fourth thursdays of each month in which writers reviewed works in progress. The group has been successful on having works by participants published. After march 2020, these sessions were held online using a conferencing platform.

Support and promote basic literacy in general and Science fiction/fantasy in particular through the annual compton crook award the best first novel in Science Fiction during the preceding year, the annual young writers contest, the annual poetry contest and support of local libraries through participation in local book and art festivals. The $1000 compton crook reward was paid after the end of the fiscal year because of a delay in receiving necessary paperwork; bsfs reports on a cash basis, accordingly this is expense is not included in the current return

Bsfs resumed holding in-person activities in fy 2022. In all cases we continued offerings on a variety of virtual platforms. Monthly meetings of the book discussion group continued uninterrupted. The anime social returned to in-person showings will continuing a watch party on discord. The monthly table top role playing sessions operated with a single online game. Bsfs also hosted in-person and remote write-in sessions for national novel writing month (nanowrimo).

At the end of fiscal year 2022, bsfs had over 16,000 cataloged items in a library of books, magazines and recordings of speculative Fiction. The library committee spaced out through the building to review boxes of donations, add new items to the collection, and pack up duplicates for donation to the heinlein Society and other literacy groups.