Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America

Flashing Swords! #1 (Dell Books, 1973), edited by Lin Carter – a showcase for the SAGA authors

The Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America or SAGA was an informal group of American fantasy authors active from the 1960s through the 1980s, noted for their contributions to the "Sword and Sorcery" kind of heroic fantasy, itself a subgenre of fantasy. When it developed a serious purpose that was to promote the popularity and respectability of Sword and Sorcery fiction.