The second Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo and twenty-fifth WonderCon have announced their dates and venues for 2012. Chicago’s C2E2 will be held April 13-15, 2012, in the North Hall of McCormick Place Convention Center. This will be a slight change of venue from the West Building of McCormick Place, where C2E2 was held last year. [...]

LoneStarCon won their bid to host the 2013 World Science Fiction Convention in voting held at Renovation. The 71st Worldcon will be held August 29 – September 2, 2013 at the Henry B. Gonzales Convention Center in San Antonio TX. They received 694 of 760 votes cast. Guests of Honor include Ellen Datlow, James Gunn, [...]

A group of genre professionals and fans both international and from the United States have joined together to found the World SF Travel Fund, an organization created to help one member of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror communities to travel internationally to attend a major genre event. The fund has selected Charles Tan as [...]

The New York Comic Con is close to selling out. According to show manager Lance Fensterman, all of the “Special Access VIP tickets are sold out, and we’ve only got a small number of Anime Access and Ultimate Access tickets remaining…. And last year, we sold out of weekend and Saturday tickets before the show.” [...]

A mass autographing event will be open to the public at the 2011 Nebula Awards Weekend. Forty authors plan to participate, with copies of their books available for sale during the SFWA-sponsored event. All visitors are welcome at the Washington Hilton, 1919 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, D.C, from 5:30 to 7:00 PM, May 20, 2011. [...]

The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the top five finalists in each category of the 2011 Locus Awards. Winners will be announced during the Science Fiction Awards Weekend in Seattle WA, June 24-26, 2011. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Induction will also take place that weekend, inducting Harlan Ellison, Gardner Dozois, Moebius, and [...]

The 2013 World Fantasy Convention is open for registration, with an Early Bird Attending Membership rate of £75.00 available until October 30, 2011. The convention will be held in the month of October, 2013, in Brighton, UK, at the seaside Hilton Brighton Metropole Hotel, which has previously hosted the 1979 and 1987 Worldcons. This is [...]

The judges for the 2011 World Fantasy Awards have been empanelled. All forms of fantasy qualify; only living authors and editors are eligible; all books must have a 2010 publication date and all magazines a 2010 cover date. To be considered for awards, all materials must be received by all five judges and the convention [...]

The Con or Bust auction, to raise funds for people of color to attend Wiscon and other SFnal conventions, is currently open for offers from people interested in donating items for auction, and is also accepting direct donations. The auction will open for bidding February 21, 2011 at 12:01 a.m. EST and closes March 6, [...]

Renovation, the 69th World Science Fiction Convention, announced that the 2011 Hugo Award nomination period is now open. Nomination ballots will be accepted from January 1, 2011, to March 26, 2011, 23:59 PDT for the Hugo Awards and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Members of Renovation who join by January 31, [...]