World Fantasy Convention 2023

10/28/2023

It's cold and wet tonight in Kansas City, so if you are heading out, wrap up warm.

10/28/2023

Do make sure you check out the dealers room and Art show!

There are lots of lovely books and art for sale, so do make sure you pick up some amazing things.

The Art reception is this evening, do come along to meet the artists and find out more about the art. There may even be a refreshment or two available. They don't usually sell art tomorrow, so it will be your last chance to buy things from the Art Show.

10/26/2023

If you want to get out of the hotel and see a little of Kansas City, then there is a covered walkway link (from floor E of the hotel) to the Crown Center itself.

At Crown Center you can find shops and Restaurants. It's good for KC souvenirs in particular.

The link continues over to Union Station. Here you can find cafes, the planetarium, science city, cinema, marvel exhibition and the illusion museum.

Outside Union station you can catch the free street car (tram).

One of the stops is at the City library, which is an excellent venue for a photo or two of the giant books. This is actually on the car park, not the main building, so go up 10th past the main entrance.

There is also a stop for the City market. This has a few interesting shops, including 1st level gaming shop, and a number of places to eat.

The river market, at the far end of the street car route has the China Town food market, a diner and other shops.

10/25/2023

Registration is open!

This is in the Dragon's Den (Mezzanine floor)

10/25/2023

PR3 has been sent out to all attendees. Do check it out to get all your last minute information:

10/21/2023

The program is online:

From the clever helper to the sly trickster, the fox figures heavily into the mythology of multiple traditions. Due to this, it’s also commonly featured in fantasy fiction as well. What are some of those mythological roles? How have authors adapted these myths for their literature?

10/19/2023

Emails are going out, with your access to online activities. Worth having a look before the event to check for any login issues.

10/16/2023

We’re going to be at World Fantasy Convention 2023 in the Sheraton Crown Center in Kansas City from the 26th to the 29th of October! You can check out the convention below!

https://wfc2023.org

We’re going to have a Fantable here so don’t forget to pop on down for a lovely chat with our amazing volunteers about everything Glasgow 2024! If you have any queries about membership or joining us, our volunteers would be more than happy to help!


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10/12/2023

Introducing our Guests of Honor...

Elizabeth Leggett is an Artist Guest of Honor for World Fantasy Convention 2023.

Elizabeth Leggett is a two time fan artist Hugo winner, gold award winner in the digital category in Infected By Art 10 and bronze winner overall.

She is a gallery artist, and science fiction and fantasy novel cover designer.

Her clients include KEEP Contemporary gallery in Santa Fe, NM, Prince of Cats Literary Productions, Melinda Snodgrass, DreamForge Magazine, Uproar Books, Houghton, Mifflin and Harcourt, Walter Jon Williams and more.

Her work can be seen in Spectrum Volumes 22, 24, 26, and 27 and the premiere issue of Spectrum Art Quarterly. She can also be found in Infected By Art Volumes 3-10. She is a five time Chesley nominee.

10/11/2023

Introducing our Guests of Honor...
Adam-Troy Castro is an Author Guest of Honor at World Fantasy Convention 2023.

Adam-Troy Castro made his first non-fiction sale to Spy magazine in 1987. His books to date include four Spider-Man novels, three novels about his profoundly damaged far-future murder investigator Andrea Cort, and six middle-grade novels about the dimension-spanning adventures of young Gustav Gloom.

Adam’s works have won the Philip K. Dick Award and the Seiun (Japan), and have been nominated for eight Nebulas, three Stokers, two Hugos, one World Fantasy Award, and, internationally, the Ignotus (Spain), the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire (France), and the Kurd-Laßwitz Preis (Germany).

The audio collection My Wife Hates Time Travel And Other Stories (Skyboat Media) features thirteen hours of his fiction, including the new stories “The Hour In Between” and “Big Stupe and the Buried Big Glowing Booger.”

In 2022 he came out with two collections, his The Author’s Wife Vs. The Giant Robot (in part a tribute to his late wife, Judi), and his thirtieth book, A Touch of Strange.

Adam lives in Florida with a pair of chaotic paladin cats.

10/11/2023

https://news.ku.edu/2023/10/09/fantastic-fiction-writer-can-go-home-again

Kij Johnson’s latest collection returns to her roots

10/10/2023

Introducing our Guests of Honor...
Vincent Villafranca is an Artist Guest of Honor for World Fantasy Convention 2023.

Vincent Villafranca has been sculpting since childhood. In 1991, while working on a degree in history, he took an elective art course and was introduced to bronze-casting. Vincent instantly became fascinated with the idea of preserving his small sculptures in metal. After graduating, he worked in a bronze foundry just outside of Austin, Texas where he further developed his sculpting, mold-making and bronze-casting skills.

He continues to make a wide array of sculptures, from tiny, intricate dragons to large-scale futuristic robots.

Vincent is a lifelong fan of Science Fiction and Fantasy, thus, he was quite honored to design the World Fantasy Award, the 2013 Hugo Award and the Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation.

He lives in north Texas with his ecologist wife and an assortment of animals.

10/10/2023

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(1) WORLD FANTASY CON UPDATE. The World Fantasy Convention is in Kansas City, MO from October 26-29 at the Sheraton Crown Center. They are getting very close to the event. The deadline for online registration and tickets for the awards banquet is October 12. People can still pay for memberships on t...

10/10/2023

10/05/2023

The list of panel titles and descriptions are up on the website:

From the clever helper to the sly trickster, the fox figures heavily into the mythology of multiple traditions. Due to this, it’s also commonly featured in fantasy fiction as well. What are some of those mythological roles? How have authors adapted these myths for their literature?

10/04/2023

The deadline for online registration and tickets for the awards banquet is October 12th.

You can still pay on the day (for membership), but it will be more expensive.

09/22/2023

Deadline for get a hotel room, how to get a convention t-shirt and Banquet tickets for sale...

Read all about it in the latest mailing:

Have you reserved your hotel room for the 2023 World Fantasy Convention? Time is running out! We have negotiated a great room rate with the Sheraton Kansas City at Crown Center, but you must reserve your room before September 27. Otherwise you'll spend $200+ more for the same room! So hurry and cli...

09/09/2023

Our payment system was down yesterday (September 7), which meant people could not purchase memberships.

It is all fixed now, so please do try again if this affected you.

08/13/2023

World Fantasy Award nominations are up:

https://file770.com/2022-world-fantasy-awards-final-ballot/

Congratulations to all the nominees.

The World Fantasy Awards administrator announced the final ballot for this year’s awards, and the Lifetime Achievement award winners, on July 25. LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT Peter Crowther John Douglas 2021 WORLD FANTASY AWARD FINALISTS NOVEL Saint Death’s Daughter by C. S. E. Cooney (Solaris) Spear by...

05/21/2023

Introducing our Guests of Honor...
Kij Johnson is Author Guest of Honor for World Fantasy Convention 2023.

Kij Johnson writes fantasy and science fiction including the novels The Fox Woman and Fudoki; the short story collection, At the Mouth of the River of Bees; the novella, The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe; and more than fifty stories.

She’s won the Hugo, World Fantasy, Nebula, and Sturgeon Awards, as well as the Grand prix de l’imaginaire and others. She’s worked in publishing, comics, games and miscellaneous tech companies; currently she teaches creative writing at the University of Kansas, where she was associate director for the J. Wayne and Elsie M. Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction and currently serves in the same capacity for The Ad Astra Center.

She teaches novel masterclasses and short fiction workshops online and in person.
She lives in Kansas.

05/14/2023

Progress Report 2 is available!

03/09/2023

Introducing our Guests of Honor...

Jonathan Strahan (www.jonathanstrahan.com.au) is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award award-winning editor, anthologist, and podcaster. He has edited more than 90 books, is reviews editor for Locus, a consulting editor for Tor.com, and the co-host and producer of the Hugo-winning Coode Street Podcast.

https://wfc2023.org/

03/08/2023

If you were/are a member or World Fantasy Convention in 2021, 2022 or 2023 you can nominate works from 2022 in the World Fantasy Awards.

See our website for more details:

2023 World Fantasy AwardsBallot Instructions Eligibility All nominated material must have been published in 2022 or have a 2022 cover date. Only living persons may be nominated.  When listing stories or other material that may not be familiar to all the judges, please include pertinent information ...

02/18/2023

We are delighted with our full list of Guests and are looking forward to seeing them all at WFC 23.
They are:

Steve Barnes and Tananarive Due, Toastmasters

Adam-Troy Castro, Author GoH

Kij Johnson, Author GoH

Elizabeth Leggett, Artist GoH

Vincent Villafranca, Artist GoH

Jonathan Strahan, Editor GoH

Pat Cadigan, Special Guest

01/29/2023

Hotel bookings are now live!

If you would like to stay at the convention Hotel, please check this link for details of booking at the convention rate:

Hotel Reservations Sheraton Kansas City at Crown Center 2345 McGee St, Kansas City, MO 64108 World Fantasy Convention Hotel Rate $159 plus tax Live like a Kansas City local at Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center. With a central downtown location near the Crown Center, we welcome travelers wit...