For my fellow vendors

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Applications are Live!

Applications for art show, dealers’ room, and fan and community tables opened December 1, 2024, and will remain open until January 15, 2025. Get your application in early!

The Seattle Worldcon 2025 Art Show and Dealers’ Room are juried. Once the initial deadline for applications has passed, the jury team will review applications. We anticipate issuing acceptances in early 2025.

The fan and community table space is open to clubs, groups, conventions, and organizations that promote science, science fiction, fantasy, horror, costuming/cosplay, and other fannish pursuits, providing an opportunity to share your enthusiasm with Worldcon members who have similar interests. All three application forms will remain open after January 15, 2025. Any applications received after that date will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis and, if accepted, placed on a waiting list. The application forms will be closed once the respective waiting lists are full.

• Art Show information and application.
• Dealers’ Room information and application.
• Fan and Community Table information and application.

Site Selection Bids for 2027 Worldcon Are Being Accepted Now Through February 14!

Seattle Worldcon has the honor of administering site selection for the 2027 Worldcon. The process for site selection is outlined in the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS) Constitution, Article 4. Any group that meets the technical requirements in the WSFS Constitution and files the necessary documents with us using the alias [email protected] may bid for the right to host the Worldcon. For more information, visit the Site Selection page on our website.

Please Update Your Registration to Tell Us About Your Interests!

If you registered early, or your membership information was imported based on pre-supporting the convention or voting in site selection in 2023, you may not have had the opportunity to fill out your Interests card. Even if you have, it doesn’t hurt to revisit and update your preferences. To do so, follow the steps below:

Log in to your membership here.

Actions to update your info:

• The top person is you, followed by any other people you have added to your account.
• ID: Your membership number. If the membership has not yet been processed by Registration, it shows as “Pending”.
• Person: Your first and last name.
• Badge name: What you told us you want to print on your badge as your name.
• Actions: These are the buttons you use to make changes to your information.
• Edit [Name]’s Profile: Use this button to update your personal information such as your address.
• Edit [Name]’s Interests: Use this button to let the convention know that you have special needs and/or interests such as accessibility, wishing to volunteer, be on a panel, etc.

The more information you give us, the better we can tailor your at-con experience!

Community Fund Grant Applications are Now Open!

The Worldcon Community Fund is dedicated to helping fans from diverse backgrounds participate in Worldcon by providing financial support for travel, accommodations, and memberships. We are focusing on assisting fans who are:

• First time attendees from the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Alaska, British Columbia)
• LGBTQIA+ attendees
• BIPOC/AANHPI attendees
• Attendees from the Global South

If you belong to one of these groups and would like to apply for assistance, please submit your application here. We are approving applications in waves, with the first wave deadline set for January 17th. Though priority for the first wave will be given to people engaging in foreign travel, feel free to apply at any time if you fit into one of these focus groups.

Your Donation Helps Bring Fans to Seattle Worldcon 2025!

Your generous donations help make this inclusive vision a reality! To read more about the Community Fund and to donate, please visit our page on the website. You can also donate by clicking here.

Announcing the Seattle Worldcon 2025 Single Pattern Contest!

Gentlefolk, start your sewing machines! Seattle Worldcon 2025 is proud to announce it is hosting a Single Pattern Contest! This year there will be two options for patterns:

• A vintage-style bowling shirt
• A 60s-style slip or sheath dress

In some years, a pattern selected for a single pattern contest has gone out of print or been difficult to locate, so a garment style rather than specific pattern number will avoid that difficulty. If you prefer a pattern, however, here are some suggested patterns:

Bowling Shirt: McCalls M7206* (available as PDF), Simplicity S9279, Simplicity S9157, Vogue V1622, (unisex), McCalls M8459, McCalls M6972.

60s-Style Dresses: McCalls M8466*, Simplicity S9848, Butterick B6990, McCalls M8402 (PDF), Simplicity S1609.

What is a Single Pattern Contest, you ask? Well, check out this page on the website and all your questions will be answered!

We Have Fun Stuff!

The Seattle Worldcon 2025 website is constantly being updated, and the contents are not just informational! Check out these new pages:

• Coloring Pages – lots of fun art for you to download, print, and color!
• Cross Stitch Patterns – some seriously cool patterns for your stitching pleasure!
• Paint By Number – for when you’ve upgraded from the coloring pages!
• Fabric Patterns – to purchase Worldcon fabric and make yourself something nice!
• Gallery – where you can upload photos of your creations!
• Playlist – yes, there is even a Worldcon 2025 playlist to get you in the mood!
• Trivia Quiz – 35 questions and answers to test your knowledge of Seattle!

Come for the information and stay for the fun!

Group Costume Theme Announced – Retro Future Fashion

Do you want to be part of a big group costume, but don’t have a bunch of costumer friends to talk into joining you? We’ve got you covered! Bring your best Retro Future Fashion, and wear it to the convention on Saturday, August 16, 2025. We’ll do a scheduled meet-up for folks wearing their best retro-future looks, and have a photo shoot of all of us in our fabulous clothes.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at [email protected]. We look forward to seeing you at the convention!

Building the Business Meeting’s Future–With Virtual Meetings in 2025

Seattle Worldcon announced earlier this week we have developed a new process for the WSFS business meeting: which will be held as a series of pre-convention, virtual meetings on four dates prior to the convention: July 4, July 13, July 19, and July 25. Viewing of the meeting will be open to all; however, to participate in the meeting and vote on business will require an attending membership or virtual attending membership in the convention. A meeting will be held at the Worldcon to receive the results of site selection. For additional information, please read the announcement in full on the website, and if you have any questions, please reach out to [email protected].

https://seattlein2025.org/2024/12/15/newsletter-december-2024-applications-are-live/

#ArtShow #BusinessMeeting #Coloring #CommunityFund #CrossStitch #DealersRoom #Fabric #FanTables #PaintByNumber #SinglePatternContest #SiteSelection

Newsletter December 2024: Applications are Live!: Applications are open for fan tables, dealers’ room, and art show; site selection bids are being accepted; make sure your registration is current; community fund applications and donations are open; the single pattern contest is ann… (#ArtShow #BusinessMeeting #Coloring #CommunityFund #CrossStitch #DealersRoom #Fabric #FanTables #PaintByNumber #SinglePatternContest #SiteSelection)

Full post: https://seattlein2025.org/2024/12/15/newsletter-december-2024-applications-are-live/

Gentlefolk, start your sewing machines!

If you were at Glasgow Worldcon, you might have seen the custom tartan that was designed, registered, and woven just for them. We wanted to capture that same creative spirit, so we now have a Spoonflower shop with a selection of fabrics in our colors and with our logos, motifs, and characters. Check out the Seattle Worldcon 2025 fabric selections! Below is an example of one of the patterns available.

These designs are available on many different fabrics, so you can have them printed on cotton, linen, canvas, stretch jersey, and many others. You can even order premade products in the selected fabric design, in case you must have Seattle Worldcon 2025 curtains, or sheets, or throw blankets!

If you are the creative sort, we would love to see how you can incorporate the designs into something awesome.

Hotel Block Report from Facilities Division

Last month we opened reservations in our hotel block, and rooms are still available at all our hotels, but filling fast. Recent reports from our headquarters hotel, the Sheraton Grand, show 70% of the rooms are full. Please note that there may be shortages of rooms available for shoulder nights outside of the core dates of August 13–17. If your booking attempt shows no rooms available, we suggest that you make a booking for these dates and contact the hotel to expand your reservation to additional nights. The hotel contracts specify that the hotels will offer you the convention rate for three days before and after your reservation within the hotel block. Please expect information on requesting suites for parties soon. The facilities division has positions available—please see the currently available roles section of our website.

Seattle Worldcon Will Feature Classic Science Fiction, but Not Retro Hugo Awards

Seattle Worldcon 2025’s vision of “Building Yesterday’s Future—For Everyone” involves looking back at the great themes of classic science fiction and fantasy to bring the best ideas forward, in an inclusive fashion that marries yesterday’s optimism with 21st century ideals. While we are developing a program track to explore genre history in depth, our Worldcon will not include Retro Hugo Awards.

The Retro Hugo Awards were conceived in the 1990s to retroactively select Hugo Award winners for the years between 1939-1954 in which no Hugos were awarded. To award retro Hugos, a Worldcon must be held 50, 75, or 100 years after the year in which the works would have theoretically been eligible. Retro Hugos have been awarded on eight occasions, most recently in 2020, although as noted by the Internet Science Fiction Database, the practice has become controversial, with the four most recent Worldcons declining to award them. An amendment was adopted at the Glasgow Worldcon to eliminate the practice going forward and passed on to Seattle for ratification. While Seattle Worldcon is also declining to award Retro Hugos, we find looking back at the works that have brought us here incredibly valuable. We look forward to discussion of the legacy of past science fiction and fantasy by our fantastic panelists, and hope you will join in the conversation. New engagement casts these works and their creators in new lights, and allows us to reflect on how science fiction and fantasy can be—and has always been—used as an agent for change.

Fan Table, Art Show, and Dealers’ Room Applications Open Soon!

Our teams are hard at work getting ready to open the art show, dealers’ room, and fan table applications, which should happen by early December. In the meantime, contact [email protected] to be added to our advance interest email list so you will hear first. We look forward to hosting an exciting and diverse exhibit hall, one only a Worldcon could put on!

Highlighting the Academic Track!

The Academic Track is a multi-disciplinary academic conference held in conjunction with the annual World Science Fiction Convention. It provides a unique opportunity to engage both a diverse group of scholars, and a large, highly educated, and well-informed public audience. All areas of research related to Science Fiction are welcome, and please do not hesitate to use this opportunity to indulge a flight of academic fancy or propose something outside the box.

For more details, please read the Academic Track information page on our website.

The Academic Track is a multi-disciplinary academic conference held in conjunction with the annual World Science Fiction Convention. It provides a unique opportunity to engage both a diverse group of scholars, and a large, highly educated, and well-informed public audience.

See You at These Events in November!

In November we will have tables at GeekGirlCon and the GeekCraft Expo Holiday Market in Seattle. Come say hello! You may even have the opportunity to preview our fabrics and cross stich patterns. Since we’re doing it, why not spread the good news about the Seattle Worldcon yourself? Memberships make great holiday presents.

There are many open volunteer positions! Come and share your talents!

Volunteer positions are currently available and many more will be opening up as the convention approaches. Be sure to peruse the Volunteer page on the website, and check back frequently if something you want to do is not yet available.

Here are a few of the currently open positions:

• Exhibits Layouts Assistant
• Assistant Convention Center/Hotel Liaison
• Green Room Coordinator
• Music Track Lead
• Youth Track Lead
• Prop Contest Coordinator
• Stage / Program AV Support Staff
• Head of Program AV
• Information Technology Support Staff

If you are unsure what position to apply for, you can fill out the Volunteer Interest Form and add your name to the database by selecting one or several areas of interest.

https://seattlein2025.org/2024/11/12/newsletter-november-2024-gentlefolk-start-your-sewing-machines/

#AcademicTrack #ArtShow #DealersRoom #FanTables #GeekCraftExpo #GeekGirlCon #Hotels #RetroHugoAwards #Sewing #Spoonflower #Volunteering

Newsletter November 2024: Gentlefolk, start your sewing machines!: Announcing our custom fabric patterns; our hotel blocks are open and filling fast; we will not be awarding Retro Hugo Awards; fan table, dealers’ room, and art show applications will open soon; the academic track is soliciting… (#AcademicTrack #ArtShow #DealersRoom #FanTables #GeekCraftExpo #GeekGirlCon #Hotels #RetroHugoAwards #Sewing #Spoonflower #Volunteering)

Full post: https://seattlein2025.org/2024/11/12/newsletter-november-2024-gentlefolk-start-your-sewing-machines/

Meet Special Guest of Honor Isis Asare

Isis Asare is a queer Afrofuturist and lover of all things Black culture. A citizen of the world, Isis was born to Ghanaian immigrants in Harlem and concurrently resides in Seattle, WA, and Oakland, CA.

Isis is an alum of Stanford University, Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, and Columbia Business School, where they earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology, a master’s in public policy, and an MBA, respectively. Isis is the CEO/founder of Sistah SciFi, the first Black-owned bookstore focused on science fiction and fantasy in the United States, as validated by the American Booksellers Association. Its goal is to uplift literature written by Black and Indigenous authors.

Sistah SciFi has launched three Sistah SciFi book vending machines in Seattle at NAAM and Distant Worlds Coffee, and in Oakland at Chapter 510. We are planning for a vending machine to be brought to Norwescon 47.

Guest of Honor Selection Committee

We are taking suggestions for the guest(s) of honor for Norwescon 48. Feel free to email [email protected] with your dream guests in the categories of writer, artist, science, and publisher.

Reserve Your Club Table Now

Are you part of a club, group, convention, or organization that promotes science fiction, fantasy, costuming/cosplay, gaming, or other fannish pursuits? If so, Norwescon would like to host your organization in our club tables area and help your organization reach Norwescon members who have similar interests. Fandom is multifaceted! Check out our Club Tables page for details on how to apply and reach out to Clubs Table Email with any questions.

Dealers’ Room and Writers’ Row Now Accepting Applications

The applications for the dealers’ room and writers’ row are now available. Information about table sizes and pricing is available on the Dealers’ Room page. We are making changes to our writers’ row set-up this year and now have the option to apply for a half or full table. Bardhwood Book Nook will be back this year to provide book-consignment services to our pros, panelists, and individual authors. If you would like to receive information about this service, sign up at the Book Nook mailing list.

Patterns for NWC 47’s Single Pattern Contest

Handle everything from a long journey across Middle Earth to an EVA to handle necessary repairs to your Bussard Ramjet – in comfort! Every adventurer needs comfort under their armor or space suit. Perfect for everyone from giants to halflings. So sew up a comfy outfit for your next adventure! Choose from these patterns:

McCall’s pattern M8249

Simplicity pattern S9828

https://www.norwescon.org/2024/11/07/news-from-norwescon-november-2024/

#ClubTables #DealersRoom #IsisAsare #SinglePatternContest #SistahScifi #WritersRow

News from Norwescon November 2024: Introducing Special Guest of Honor Isis Asare, soliciting suggestions for future guests of honor, applications are open for club tables, the dealers’ room, and writer’s row, and our single pattern contest patterns have been chosen! … (#IsisAsare #SistahSciFi #ClubTables #DealersRoom #WritersRow #SinglePatternContest)

Full post: https://www.norwescon.org/2024/11/07/news-from-norwescon-november-2024/