Endeavour Award

There's an Endeavour Award party planned for Friday night. Details to come. Check our booth for info or the Daily Zine.

Cartoon-style logo for “Daily ’Zine” featuring five cheerful characters riding in a green flying saucer, with colorful circular shapes in the background.

The Daily ’Zine is coming—your twice-a-day dose of con news & fun!

Got a great story, quote, comic, or photo? Send it to zine@seattlein2025.org and you might see it in print or online!

Find the ’Zine in Guidebook, at Info Desk, Safer Spaces lounges, and the Worldcon Cantina.

Logo of the Carl Brandon Society. Simple drawing of a tree with multicolored stars as its leaves, full blue moon rising behind it, with the words "Carl Brandon Society" on the moon.

Will you be at the Seattle WorldCon, August 13-17, 2025? We'll be there, with a tea party on Saturday, August 16, from 2 to 4 pm, Issaquah Room, Sheraton Grand Hotel 3rd floor. Any friend of the Carl Brandon Society is welcome whether you’re a convention member or not.

Health Policy: Infection Control and Risk Management As a community, we have a duty to help protect one another and keep our community as healthy as possible. We cannot totally eliminate risk at an in-person event being held when COVID-19 is still…

Your health matters at #SeattleWorldcon2025

We’re working to help everyone stay healthy during the convention. Read our full Health Policy here: seattlein2025.org/about/health/

Let’s work together to make this a safe and fun convention for all! 💙

1/3

✅ Masks – Strongly encouraged & available at multiple locations: Info Table, Exhibit Hall Desk, Events Office, and Program Ops.
✅ Tests – Available at Convention Ops (Summit Room 440 / Sheraton Everett Room) or via contactless hotel delivery.

2/3

✅ Exposure Tracking – If you test positive for COVID or Flu, please report via email (health@seattlein2025.org), our Google Form, or Discord (#disease-self-reporting) so we can help notify others.

3/3

Coming to #Worldcon this week? See our Endeavour Award booth in Special Exhibits, at the corner just past Seanan McGuire's Hugo Gown exhibit.

At Friday's Get to Know the Endeavour Award panel (Terrace Ste, 4th flr) 9-11:30 am we'll announce this year's finalists & read excerpts from their works.

2025 PEN/Faulkner Shortlist The five-title 2025 PEN/Faulkner shortlist for fiction has been announced, with titles and authors of genre interest, including Ghostroots by ’Pemi Aguda (Norton) and James by Percival Everett (Dou…

2025 PEN/Faulkner Shortlist locusmag.com/2025/03...

The Norwescon 47 Schedule is Live! It's time to start planning your Norwescon 47 weekend! Our schedule of panels and events, lists of attending pros, panelists, and performers, and list of attending artists are now live!

The Norwescon 47 Schedule is Live!: It's time to start planning your Norwescon 47 weekend! Our schedule of panels and events, lists of attending pros, panelists, and performers, and list of attending artists are now live!… buff.ly/cVfNSt2

2025 Libby Book Awards Winners Winners of the 2025 Libby Book Awards, “as chosen by… over 1,100 librarians and library staff from across North America,” have been announced, including winners of genre interest.…

2025 Libby Book Awards Winners locusmag.com/2025/03...

And scheduled at Norwescon at 1pm on Saturday in Cascade 7 & 8

Get to Know the Endeavour Award

Come listen to past winners and finalists discuss the award and its importance to them and learn about how the award process works.

Jim Kling (M), Brenda Cooper, Laura Anne Gilman, Gordon Van Gelder

The Egg Table is one of our main fundraisers. $2 per egg which will have one of the four prize categories from which to select.

Donated items will be accepted at both the table and the party.

Going to Norwescon next month?

Stop by the informational Endeavour Award table & party to learn how to support the Award as a volunteer, a reader, and a donor--financially or with in-kind donations for the Egg Table at OryCon such as books, hand-crafted items, art, cute pins & plush and more.

The Endeavour Award represents a collaboration between writers & fans of science fiction & fantasy to encourage the growth of literature in the field & recognize works of excellence. It's sponsored by OSFCI & given each year at OryCon. The deadline for book submissions this year is March 17, 2025.

Become a Preliminary Reader for the Endeavour Award! Preliminary Readers read works from the field of science fiction and fantasy that have been submitted and rate them. The top five works will then be rated by judges for the Endeavour Award. osfci.org/endeavour/co...

We're so excited to finally announce that The Curve of The World will be published with Aqueduct Press! Thanks to a wonderful team of folks that helped make this happen, @timmi.bsky.social, @jenniegoloboy.bsky.social, and many more!

Steamy in Seattle 2025, An Alien Romance Tea Party. Get Your Tickets Today! Saturday, May 10, 12PM-2:30PM at the Nordic Museum. Text over abstract background filled with tentacles and stars.

✨ Join us for our third annual *Steamy in Seattle* on Saturday, May 10!

Featuring authors @annaguirre.bsky.social and Elizabeth Stephens while raising money for writing workshops, sliding scale tuition, and scholarship programs.
#steamyinseattle #annaguirre #elizabethstephens

Voting for the 2025 Locus Awards is open! Vote for your favorite books at poll.voting.locusmag... ! Voting is open until April 15th and the Awards are held in June of this year. The Awards are fan-voted so you can show your love for the works that have are important to you!

Ursula K. Le Guin — Nominate a Book for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction

Nominations are now open for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction—and anyone can nominate work for this $25,000 prize! We hope you'll nominate books you love that meet this year's criteria:

Science Fiction & Fantasy Pirate-Themed Anthology! An SF&F themed anthology about pirates from the small press Zombies Need Brains!

@joshuapalmatier.bsky.social's new #SFF #pirate #antho, featuring RS Belcher, @alansmale.bsky.social, @mistymassey.bsky.social, Violette Malan, @ccfinlay.bsky.social, @alexbledsoe.bsky.social & @jenniferbrozek.bsky.social is live on #Kickstarter. Board the ship and pledge! tinyurl.com/ZNBSkullXBones

Norwescon volunteers gathered around round tables in a hotel meeting room, with the Executive team at straight tables at the front of the room, and a Zoom window with remote attendees projected on one wall.

Greetings from the penultimate ConCom volunteer meeting for #NWC47! Only a month and a half to go - and we can still use more volunteers! Check our open staff positions page to see how you can help: buff.ly/Yhsg0Mc

Voting for the 2025 Locus Awards is open! Vote for your favorite books at poll.voting.locusmag... ! Voting is open until April 15th and the Awards are held in June of this year. The Awards are fan-voted so you can show your love for the works that have are important to you!

Save the date, Portland: I'll be Ray Nayler's in-conversation partner the evening of April 11 at Powell's Burnside location, for his new novel. Ray's not just an excellent novelist but a great thinker, in my opinion. Hope to see you there. (event may not be on the website yet)

Hello, Portland! I'll be kicking off the tour for The Martian Contingency in your city. I hope you'll make plans to drop by the Cedar Hills Crossing location of @powells.bsky.social on March 18 to say hello and get your book signed. www.powells.com/book/the-mar... @torbooks.bsky.social

Image of author and literary agent, Danya Kukafka looking directly at the camera with her chin in her hand. She has wavy light brown hair and hoop earrings and a friendly smile. There are abstract shapes in the background.Text over image reads: It's a class & submission party! Sliding scale $11-25. In Person, in Seattle. February 15. Danya Kukafka. Teaching: Just Hit Send: A Query Letter Party

February 15: Join us at Hugo House for a two-hour Query Letter Class & Submission Party!

Link in comments.
#speculativefiction #writingclasses #writingcommunity #queryletter #literaryagent

AWARDS time! Support your favorite authors, artists, publishers, and more...!

SFWA members can vote in the Nebula Awards
nebulas.sfwa.org/about-the-ne...

Worldcon members can vote in the Hugo Awards
seattlein2025.org/wsfs/hugo-aw...

Anyone can vote in the Locus Awards
locusmag.com/2025/02/2024...

A blue and purple graphic reads Nominations accepted March 1-30, 2025. Anyone can nominate! More soon...

Anyone can nominate a book for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. This year, nominations will be open throughout the month of March. All the details are at www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25

7 Must-Visit Bookstores in the Portland Area (and How to Get There by TriMet) - TriMet Blog We mean this in the best of ways: The Portland area is lousy with bookstores. It’s well known that we’re a booklover’s paradise, home to some of the best bookstores in the country. Many of them are located near TriMet bus and MAX lines, making it easy to get to your destination. Here’s a list of seven excellent bookstores you can visit by TriMet, making your trip the eco-friendly, cost-effective and stress-free way to get there. Let’s go!

Seven localish bookstores via TriMet.
blog.trimet.org/2025/02/07/7...

SUBMISSIONS TO THE ENDEAVOUR AWARD
Submissions are now open for the Endeavour Award for books published in 2024! Books published in 2024 by eligible authors can be submitted via the entry form. The deadline for submissions for books published in 2024 is March 17, 2025. See osfci.org/endeavour/