The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has opened registration for the 2025 Nebula Conference and Award Ceremony, to be held June 5-8, 2025 in Kansas City MO and online.

Registration may be purchased at this link.

Registration to attend the in-person conference is $375.00. The ticket is all-inclusive and grants access to “in-person programming & events, the Nebula Banquet and Ceremony, and… online recorded content at events.sfwa.org until ...Read More

The Horror Writers Associa­tion (HWA) has announced a collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh Library System (ULS). ULS has committed to a ten-year Legacy Sponsorship for the HWA’s annual conference Stokercon starting in 2025. HWA says,

The Archives & Special Collections Department within the ULS is home to the prestigious horror studies collection which includes an extraordinary array of rare books, film and literary archives, pulps, comics, and much more. ...Read More

The 28th ICon was held October 20-22, 20-24 in Tel Aviv, Israel, and included almost 350 panels, lectures, workshops, games, and roleplaying. Some 11,000 tickets were sold to the different events. In each of the three days, at a certain point, entrance to the venue had to be restricted to those who had tickets, because the 1,800 people limit on premises, set for health and safety reasons, was reached.

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Can*Con 2024 was held November 1-3 in person at the Sheraton Hotel in Ottawa, Canada. Guests of honour were Jennifer Brozek, Sarah Gailey, Diana M. Pho, Waubgeshig Rice, and Arley Sorg. A separate virtual Can*Con was held on April 20 with roughly one hundred attendees.

There were 400 in-person registered attendees. Programming featured 115 panelists and 107 items on writing, literature, and more, such as ‘‘Post-Colonial Perspectives on the Post-Apocalypse’’ ...Read More

The 50th World Fantasy Convention was held as a hybrid event October 17-20, 2024, with the in-person portion held at the Sheraton Niagara Falls and Niagara Falls Convention Center in Niagara Falls NY. Guests of honor were Scott H. Andrews, Galen Dara, and Heather Graham, with toastmaster Michael Swanwick. P. Djèlí Clark was a special guest, and Life Achievement Awards winners were Ginjer Buchanan and Jo Fletcher. The theme was ...Read More

StokerCon 2025 has announced their Guests of Honor: Scott Edelman, Paula Guran, Adam L.G. Nevill, Joyce Carol Oates, Gaby Triana, and Tim Waggoner.

StokerCon 2025 will be held June 12-15, 2025 at the Hilton Stamford Hotel & Executive Meeting Center in Stamford CT.

For more information, see the official website.

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Seattle Worldcon 2025 has announced a Special Hugo Award for Best Poem to be part of the Hugo ballot in 2025.

The award is open to “your favorite poem within the speculative, science fiction, and fantasy genres, published in 2024, that is at least three lines.”

Additionally, Seattle Worldcon 2025 has announced a Community Fund, seeded with $30,000 from DisCon III. The fund will have “four focus areas: Pacific Northwest ...Read More

The Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024 was held on June 8-9 in Toronto ON. Keynote speakers were Larissa Lai and Nicholas Ruddick, with remarks from the organization’s chair, Allan Weiss. Held quasi-annually since 1995, ACCSFF features papers and panel discussions on “all aspects of the field,” with a long associa­tion with the Toronto Public Library’s Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation and Fantasy.

This year, ACCSFF ...Read More

Readercon 33 was held July 11-14, 2024 at the Boston Quincy Marriott in Quincy MA. Guests of honor were Rebecca Roanhorse and Amal El-Mohtar; Naomi Mitchison was the memorial guest of honor. The focus of Readercon is ‘‘imaginative literature’’ – literary science fiction, fantasy, horror, and their intersections, with ‘‘near-total focus on the written word.’’

There were 700 members, with a peak of 596 warm bodies on site Saturday. There ...Read More