WisCon 47 (2025) is fast approaching! The entirely online convention will occur over the Memorial Day weekend, stretching from Thursday May 22 to Monday May 26 with pay-what-you-can tickets available at WisCon2025.

The guests of honor for WisCon 47 are writers Andrea Hairston and Naomi Kritzer. The online con will kick off Thursday, May 22, with readings from both guests of honor. The rest of the weekend will be filled with a variety of programming, including panels, workshops, and more. This year, all content will take place online using Zoom, Discord, and YouTube where possible. There are no official in-person elements.

WisCon is the first (known) feminist sci-fi convention in the world, founded in 1977.

The con’s focus includes science fiction, fantasy, and speculative literature of all sorts, with an emphasis on imagining positive futures for ALL people, regardless of race, ethnicity, class, sex, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, creed, ability, status, or belief. WisCon 47 (2025) marks the first convention after a year off.

Andrea Hairston is a novelist, playwright, poet, and L. Wolff Kahn 1931 Professor Emerita of Theatre and Africana Studies at Smith College. She ran away from the physics lab to the theatre when she was a young thing and has been a scientist, artiste, and hoodoo conjurer ever since. Novels: Archangels of Funk; Will Do Magic For Small Change, a New York Times Editor’s pick and finalist for the Mythopoeic, Lambda, and Otherwise Awards; Redwood and Wildfire, a Washington Post Best Book of 2022, Otherwise and Carl Brandon Award winner; Master of Poisons on the 2020 Kirkus Review’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy. Her short fiction appears in So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Visions of the Future; New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color; Trouble the Waters; and Lightspeed Magazine. Plays and essays are collected in Lonely Stardust. Tor Publishing Group will publish Mindscape on August 5, 2025. Andrea bikes at night year-round, meeting bears, multi-legged creatures of light and breath, and the occasional shooting star.

Naomi Kritzer is a science fiction and fantasy writer from St. Paul, Minnesota. In Minneapolis and St. Paul, she is probably best known for her political blog, which provides deep-dive information on candidates in local political races. Outside of the Twin Cities, she is best known for her fiction, which has won the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Edgar Award, and the Minnesota Book Award. She has a spouse, two grown kids and three cats (the number of cats is subject to change without notice). You can find Naomi online at naomikritzer.com or on Bluesky as @naomikritzer.bsky.social.

To register for WisCon, go to: WisCon2025.

[Based on a press release.]