Arlene Busby, chair of Westercon 75, has announced that Westercon 75 is canceled.

The Westercon 75 staff and I regret that we cannot fulfill our plans to hold the event which had been scheduled for June 30 – July 3, 2023, in Anaheim, CA. It saddens us to do this, but a cascade of circumstances won’t allow it to happen.

Instead, Loscon 49, scheduled for November 24-26, 2023, at the ...Read More

Boskone 60 was held February 17-19, 2023 in Boston MA at the Westin Boston Sea­port. Nalo Hopkinson was the guest of honor, Victo Ngai was the official artist, Tui T. Sutherland was the special guest, Dave Clement was the musical guest, and astronaut Jeanette J. Epps, PhD, was the science speaker. There were around 1,400 registrations, 370 virtual, with 963 warm bodies on site. Attendees came in from nine countries ...Read More

Belfast, Northern Ireland won their bid to host the 2025 British National Science Fiction Convention (Eastercon), in voting held at Eastercon 2023. The convention will take place April 18-21, 2025 at the Belfast International Conference Centre.

Guests of honor will include Lauren Beukes, Derek Landy, Rebecca Roanhorse, Ian McDonald, Jeannette Ng, and Will Simpson.

An adult weekend membership is £60 until the end of May. For more information, see their ...Read More

The Indian Association for Science Fiction Studies (IASFS) has opened registration for their virtual 22nd Annual/7th International Science Fiction Conference, to be held April 4-5, 2023. Attendees must register by March 12, 2023. Events will be held over Zoom, and will include pre-recorded presentations, live panel discussions, and other events. The conference also welcomes submissions for papers:

The Theme: Any aspect of science fiction. However, the wide range of the ...Read More

A petition has been launched at AVAAZ.org calling on “the Board of Worldcon 2023” to “rescind the status of guest of honour from Sergei Lukyanenko.” Lukyanenko was announced as one of three guests of honor for the 81st World Science Fiction Convention scheduled to be held August 16-20, 2023 in Chengdu, China. The petition objects to Lukyanenko’s support of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. As of press time, the digital ...Read More

SFWA has opened registration for the 2023 Nebula Conference and Award Ceremony, to be held May 12–14, 2023, both online and in-person at the Sheraton Park Hotel at the Anaheim Resort in Anaheim CA.

Registrations may be purchased at this link. Registration for the online portion of the conference is $150.00 and includes access to broadcasts of the weekend’s panels and the subsequent archive, mentorship opportunities, the Nebula Awards ...Read More

The 48th World Fantasy Convention was held as a hybrid event November 3-6, 2022, with the Hyatt Regency hosting the in-person portion in New Orleans, that destination Louisiana city so renowned for its cuisine, music, and atmosphere. Guests of honor were Ginjer Buchanan, Victor LaValle, and Jo Walton, with Iris Compiet as artist guest of honor, Andrei Codrescu and Brandon O’Brien as special guests, Nisi Shawl as featured guest, plus ...Read More

Can*Con 2022 was held October 14-16 at the Sheraton Hotel in Ottawa, Canada. There were 276 registered memberships; 194 members were in attendance, and 54 attended virtually. Guests of Honour were E.D.E. Bell, Nathan Caro Fréchette, and Suyi Davies Okungbowa, plus virtual guests C.L. Clark and Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki.

In-person programming featured 84 panelists at over 60 sessions, discussing science, writing, literature, and more, such as ‘‘Disease and Medicine: How ...Read More

Taos Toolbox

The Taos Toolbox master class in writing science fiction and fantasy, delayed for two years by COVID-19, took place June 12-25, 2022. Because its normal site at Angel Fire NM was under threat by a massive forest fire, the workshop was moved to the Sonesta ES in Albuquerque. Taos Toolbox hopes to return to Angel Fire next year.

Launch Pad

The 2022 Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop for Writers ...Read More

For reasons of epidemiological microbiol­ogy there were no 2022 Swecon bids, but the minicon Ökon was happening anyway on August 13-14, 2022 and was upgraded to be the 2022 Swecon. Due to (partial) double booking, Ökon 3 had to move to the same site as last year’s Swecon, an old diesel workshop (Dieselverkstan) turned into an event venue just east of Stockholm. Friday had an informal warm-up in the Tolkien ...Read More

The sixth annual SerlingFest was held August 12-14, 2022 in Bing­hamton NY, hosted by the Rod Serling Memorial Foundation to celebrate the life and work of the Twi­light Zone creator. Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo announced that the Foundation will received a grant of $50,000 to create and install a statue of Serling in Binghamton’s Recreation Park, to be unveiled in summer 2023. Guests included Serling’s daughter Anne, author Marc Scott Zicree, ...Read More

The 2023 World Fantasy Convention has announced Kij Johnson as author guest of honor, Vincent Villafranca and Elizabeth Legget as artist guests of honor, and Jonathan Strahan as editor guest of honor.

The convention will be held October 26-29, 2023 in Kansas City KS at the Sheraton Crown Center.

For more information, see the convention website.

While you are here, please take a moment to support Locus with a one-time ...Read More

StokerCon 2023 has announced new Guests of Honor joining the previously announced guests. Owl Goingback, Jewelle Gomez, and Alma Katsu will all be joining Stokercon as Guests of Honor, June 15-18, 2023 at the Sheraton Pittsburgh Hotel at Station Square in Pittsburgh PA.

For more information, see the official website.

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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, a multiple Hugo Award finalist this year, has been granted a visa to attend Chicon 8.

As we reported earlier, the Nigerian editor and author was previously denied a visa. He posted this update on Facebook:

Nigerian editor and author Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, a multiple Hugo Award finalist this year, has been denied a visa by the US and will not be able to attend Chicon 8. He explained the situation in a post on Facebook:

Why I won’t be attending Chicon 8 – Chicago Worldcon 2022. I can’t. Got denied visa to the Worldcon by U.S. Mission Nigeria today. & it’s not the denial that’s ...Read More

Chicon 8 has partnered with author Tamora Pierce to bring children and teenagers to Worldcon in a program called Tamora’s Legends:

Ms. Pierce is sponsoring VIP ACCESS for 20 kids and teens ages 10-17 to Chicon 8: The 80th World Science Fiction Convention for the weekend of September 3rd-4th 2022! Half the sponsored VIPs will be chosen from a local Chicago community organization, and half via online application and lottery. ...Read More