World Fantasy Convention 2021, to be held in Montreal, Canada, has named its Guests of Honor: Author GoH: Nisi Shawl; Artist GoH: John Picacio; Editor GoH: André-François Ruaud; and Special Guests: Owl Goingback, and Yves Meynard, The Toastmaster is Christine … Continue reading
World Fantasy Convention 2019 has released its program online at https://wfc2019.org/schedule/. World Fantasy Con 2019 will be held in LA at the Marriott Los Angeles Airport Hotel from Thursday, October 31 through Sunday, November 3. WFC 2019’s guests of honor are … Continue reading
World Fantasy Convention 2020 in Salt Lake City officially opened for registration at the close of this year’s WFC in Baltimore. The Salt Lake committee so far has named five guests: Stephen Gallagher – British author of many novels and … Continue reading
[[Editor’s Introduction: With Scott Edelman’s permission, File 770 is posting the text of his World Fantasy Convention GoH speech, given in Baltimore this weekend. (It’s also up on his website. And a link to the video appears at the end … Continue reading
By Martin Morse Wooster: World Fantasy Convention (Baltimore, November 1-4, 2018) If you want to know how a World Fantasy Convention differs from your typical convention, here is what happened when I checked in on Thursday. I was running late, … Continue reading
World Fantasy ConventionSM 2021 will be held in Montreal, Canada from November 4–7 at the Hotel Montreal Bonaventure. The information is on the World Fantasy Convention site. So far as I can tell I haven’t reported it here before, although … Continue reading
The World Fantasy Convention 2018 in Baltimore is a joint effort of The Baltimore Science Fiction Society (BSFS) and the Washington Science Fiction Association (WSFA). It will be held at the Marriott Renaissance Harborplace Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Nov … Continue reading
Salt Lake City will host the 2020 World Fantasy Convention (WFC). The announcement was made at the conclusion of this year’s WFC in San Antonio. When the event comes to Utah beginning October 29, 2020, it will take place at … Continue reading
Panelist Rebecca Kuang came out of the “Borrowing from History: Intention and Appropriation” item at World Fantasy Con 2017 in San Antonio and dispatched these tweets to express her dissatisfaction with the experience. https://twitter.com/kuangrf/status/926876544634707968 https://twitter.com/kuangrf/status/926877056260038656 https://twitter.com/kuangrf/status/926877402961207296 https://twitter.com/kuangrf/status/926877921750511622 https://twitter.com/kuangrf/status/926878496307269633 https://twitter.com/kuangrf/status/926878848343592962 https://twitter.com/kuangrf/status/926882806675976194 … Continue reading
WFC 2017 has released a partial list of draft program topics. Alternate Africas: The Growing List of Fantastic Alternate and Secret Narratives Set in Africa Beards and Intrigue: Queering the Historical Fantastic Calamity Jane Defeats Conan: The Persistence of American … Continue reading