We can’t wait to see you at the Locus Awards Weekend, to be held June 19-22, 2024 in Oakland, California! You can vote in the 2024 Locus Awards up until April 15, 2024.
WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY: We’ll kick off the event with a series of online readings in the evenings starting Wednesday, June 19, with several readers each evening and a Q&A, and an online meetup.
SATURDAY: Saturday will have several panels (in person and online), a catered reception with food by Havana Restaurant plus a cash bar, SWAG, and the awards ceremony (in person and online) from our beautiful location at the historic Preservation Park in downtown Oakland CA, featuring our awesome MC Henry Lien and special guest Connie Willis, with books and merch for sale! We look forward to a great afternoon mingling with our fabulous local SFF community and celebrating the finest works of 2023.
For those traveling to the Bay Area, hotel rooms are available for Locus Awards attendees at a discounted rate Thursday June 20-Monday June 24, 2024, from $149 a night, at the new AC Hotel Oakland Downtown located at 1431 Jefferson Street Oakland, CA 94612. A hot breakfast is included in the nightly rate. Click here to book: Marriott Event Reservations. Please book by Thursday May 30, 2024 to obtain these rates.
There will also be a one-day Locus Bay Area Writers Workshop Writing Master Class with Connie Willis on Sunday, June 23, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., on the topic of the art of foreshadowing, located at Preservation Park near the awards venue. The event will be ticketed separately and workshop ticketing is open! For more info: Locus Bay Area Writers Workshop: Writhing Master Class with Connie Willis, June 2024
Virtual+Live Awards memberships are $95 and include the virtual readings and meetup, plus the Saturday in-person panels, live awards ceremony with Special Guest Connie Willis, a catered reception (party!) with cash bar, SWAG, and more, taking place on Saturday, June 22 in the historic Nile Hall at Preservation Park in Oakland, California.
Live-only Awards memberships are $75 and include the Saturday in-person panels, live awards ceremony with Special Guest Connie Willis, a catered reception (party!) with cash bar, SWAG, and more, taking place on Saturday, June 22 in the historic Nile Hall at Preservation Park in Oakland, California. (Price increases on June 1.)
Friend of Locus membership which entitles you to attend all digital and in-person events, plus the Locus Awards 2024 T-shirt, a VIP tour of the Locus offices, a special backer gift, and our eternal thanks. (You don’t have to attend in person to support at this level.)
You can add on the limited-edition 2024 Locus Awards T-shirt to any order for $35 at checkout, or other Locus swag. Join in the fun! We can’t wait to see you, whether virtually, live, or both.
Additional info: We ask members to test for COVID if possible prior to attending for the safety of the community, and masking is strongly encouraged. There is no dress code for the Locus Awards. Wear whatever makes you happy! From geek chic to dressy casual to full red carpet regalia, we like it all. We’ve even had people show up in full dinosaur gear and we did not say “no.” T-shirts are an add-on, and will be shipped to your door (extra shipping fee outside of the US). All the above memberships include a set digital subscription to the magazine, from our February 2024 issue (our Year-in-Review issue with Recommended Reading List and Poll and Survey) to August 2024 (with the Locus Awards photo coverage and writeup) and everything in between. Member subscription is non-transferable and does not affect or extend existing subscriptions. Thanks as always for all your support and for attending the Locus Awards.
Here is a link to our 2023 Locus Awards writeup, where you can see how the awards events went last year!
SLIDING SCALE MEMBERSHIP: We are offering a sliding-scale membership starting at $15 for digital attendees who would otherwise be unable to afford to attend. This is a online-only membership, with access to all online Locus Awards events, but not a subscription or print program.
Locus Supports Inclusivity! Thinking of attending? Please do. We encourage people of color, women, people with disabilities, older people, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people to attend. We welcome people of any gender identity or expression, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, age, size, nationality, religion, culture, education level, and self-identification.
Our Code of Conduct is available here: Locus Science Fiction Foundation Code of Conduct.
Location for Live Events: The Saturday, June 22 programming will take place at Nile Hall in Preservation Park: 665 Thirteenth Street in Oakland CA 94612. It’s a large dark-colored building near the fountain.
Public Transportation. If you plan to take public transit, Preservation Park is a 5-10 minute walk from the 12th Street/Oakland City Center BART station. The nearest bus stops are: 12th Street at MLK and 11th St at Jefferson. To plan your trip, use Google Maps.
Building Access. The entrance to the park is on 13th Street at MLK Jr. Way. The building is located inside Preservation Park on Thirteenth Street, just a short walk from the main entrance. There is a ramp for the building.
Parking is available inside the park on 13th and Preservation Park Way, and at City Center West Garage, located across the street from the park at 1250 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way, Oakland, CA 94612. This parking garage entrance is located on Jefferson St. or MLK Jr. Way, directly across the street from the main entrance to Preservation Park. Metered street parking is also available at your own discretion.
Introducing Locus Awards 2024 Sponsors:
The Locus Science Fiction Foundation is pleased to announce that Reid Hoffman is one of the sponsors of the Locus Awards. Co-Founder of LinkedIn, co-Founder of Inflection AI, and partner at Greylock, Reid is an accomplished entrepreneur, executive, and investor. He has played an integral role in building many of today’s leading consumer technology businesses. In 2003 he co-founded LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional networking service. In 2009 he joined Greylock. In 2022, he co-founded Inflection AI. He currently serves on the boards of Aurora, Coda, Convoy, Entrepreneur First, Joby, Microsoft, Nauto, Neeva, and a few early stage companies still in stealth. In addition, he serves on a number of not-for-profit boards, including Kiva, Endeavor, CZ Biohub, New America, Berggruen Institute, Opportunity@Work, the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and the MacArthur Foundation’s Lever for Change. He is the host of Masters of Scale, the first American podcast to commit to a 50-50 gender balance for featured guests as well as Possible, a podcast that sketches out the brightest version of the future—and what it will take to get there. He is the co-author of five best-selling books: The Startup of You, The Alliance, Blitzscaling, Masters of Scale, and Impromptu. He is an Aspen Institute Crown Fellow, a Marshall Scholar at Oxford, and a graduate of Stanford University.
Cal Henderson
The Locus Science Fiction Foundation is pleased to announce that Cal Henderson is one of the sponsors of the Locus Awards. Cal Henderson is the co-founder and was the Chief Technology Officer of Slack until 2024. The day-to-day work of Locus Magazine is currently coordinated exclusively through our very busy Slack account, so we are extra grateful for the venue! Cal oversees Slack’s world-class engineering team and sets the technical vision for the company.
In 2019, he was named a Fortune 40 Under 40 honoree and recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader.
Previously, Cal built and led the engineering teams at Flickr, through its acquisition by Yahoo. An experienced technology leader and a popular speaker on engineering scalability, he authored the best-selling O’Reilly Media book Building Scalable Websites. Cal was also a pioneer in the use of web APIs, and created the basis for OAuth and oEmbed, now used by YouTube, Twitter and many others.
