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If you really really don't see it and believe you applied to be on programming, please email programming@can-con.org to speak to our elves.

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ATTENTION ATTENTION SET CONDITION ONE THROUGHOUT THE SHIP

If you applied to be a panelist at Can*Con this fall we have just sent out the ravens and the emails with the form for you to express interest in panels you'd like to be on.

Please check your spam (etc.) folders if you don't see it!

Great deal and a great great cause!

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BEHOLD the shortlist for the 2025 World Fantasy Awards, WHICH SAFELY CONTAINS our friend @davering.bsky.social and upcoming Guest of Honor @premeemohamed.com!

Congratulations to all the nominees!

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Can't beat that price!

Looking into the Future This year has not gone as planned. On January 14th, 2025, Diamond Comics filed for reorganization under Chapter 11. Years of bad business practices had caught up with Diamond Comics as they owed milli...

Our friends at @apexmag.bsky.social have written about how their work has been affected by the Diamond bankruptcy and they could use your support through their Patreon and preorders.

Article: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontp...

Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/import...

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2025 Locus Awards Winners Locus Awards trophy. Art by Shaun Tan. The 2025 Locus Awards were announced June 21 in a ceremony during Locus Awards Weekend in Oakland, CA. SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL The Man Who Saw Seconds, Alexande…

A buzzing swarm of congratulations to our upcoming GoH @premeemohamed.com, who took home a Locus Award last night!

Maybe we can get Premee to sign some locusts for people this fall.

Big congratulations to all the winners!

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If you are working on a retelling, or thinking of working on one, or just interested in the many ways people are retelling old stories these days, there's still room in the four-hour online workshop (I promise we'll take breaks) I'm running for the Loft on June 28:

Live Can*Con — Can*Con

We are ready for summer and of course no one wants to think about the fall BUT HAVE YOU CONSIDERED that with GOHs @kateheartfield.com, @ourmankoto.bsky.social and @premeemohamed.com October is looking pretty exciting??

JOIN US!!!

www.can-con.org/events/live-...

This will be a super fun weekend, assuredly!

Write!

Frolic in the woods!

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U must be Ignyted!!

Vote - The Ignyte Awards Public voting for the 2025 AWARDS IS NOW OPEN THRU AUG 15. GO VOTE OUTSTANDING NOVEL: ADULT for novel-length work (40k words) Works intended for an adult audience BLACKHEART MAN – Nalo Hopkinson (S&S/...

MORE CONGRATULATIONS to our fronds @charliejane.bsky.social, @littlebadger.bsky.social, @premeemohamed.com, @suyidavies.com, and @thesuiway.bsky.social, who are all finalists for the 2025 Ignyte Awards!

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2024 Nebula Awards Winners The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has announced the winners for the 2024 Nebula Awards in Kansas City and via YouTube. The Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award was pres…

CONGRATULATIONS to our friends @phoebebarton.bsky.social, @kateheartfield.com, @vriccithode.bsky.social, and @thesuiway.bsky.social, who are all Nebula 2024 winners!

We are HIJALIC with excitement!!

locusmag.com/2025/06/2024...

Holy boats it's somehow May 30th which is the FINAL day to apply to be a panelist on our programming this fall!

If you haven't applied, hasten ye to the form and give us your expertises!

www.can-con.org/panelist-app...

We'll both be at @canconsffh.bsky.social this October if you want to say hi.

In the meantime, don't forget to preorder ALL THE BROKEN BLADES! Release is only two days away.

books2read.com/ATBB25

There will be breakfast!

Just look at it!!

Hi Maaja! It works like this: you get 1 meal plan with the room rate. If you want one for the second person then 1) it's 50% off and 2) you reserve the second one at the link here: www.can-con.org/hotel-and-me...

Let us know if you have more questions!

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Marie says it should and we may already need to add rooms to the block.

We’ll check with the venue - but it’s the long weekend.

DELICIOUS. FRIENDS.

I’ll look into it.

We can but assume they know what they’re in for!!

Now that you've booked your hotel, go to www.can-con.org/meal-plans

There's a link there to reserve your meal passes!

OR!!