Congratulations to all of this year's #HugoAward winners, particularly to those who have been part of Norwescon in the past:
- @seananmcguire (#NWC37 Guest of Honor): Best Novella
- @aptshadow (2021 #PhilipKDickAward Nominee): Best Series
- @clarkesworld (#NWC42 and upcoming #NWC46 Guest of Honor): Best Editor, Short Form
- @UncannyMagazine (#NWC45 Guest of Honor): Best Semiprozine
All of this year's winners: https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2023-hugo-awards/
Congratulations to the finalists for the 2023 #WorldFantasyAwards!
We would particularly like to congratulate the nominees who have been part of Norwescon in the past:
Best Artist:
- Kinuko Y. Craft (#NWC34 Guest of Honor)
- Galen Dara (#NWC41 Guest of Honor)
Special Award - Non-Professional
- @lynnemthomas & Michael Damian Thomas for @UncannyMagazine (#NWC45 Spotlight Publisher)
Congratulations and good luck to everyone!
See the full list of finalists: https://bit.ly/3qcd3od
Now that it's been a few weeks since #nwc45, we want to know — how was your convention? Did something great happen that you want to make sure we know about so we can do that again (or just recognize someone's good work)? Did something not go so well, and you want to give us a chance to improve for future years?
Use our website (http://www.norwescon.org/go/feedback), email [email protected], or use the #NWCrose (for kudos) or #NWConion (for complaints) hashtags. We appreciate your comments!
Highlighting this writeup by Frank Catalano for File 770 of the #nwc45 panel honoring and remembering author and friend of Norwescon Greg Bear, who died a few months ago. Thanks for the panel and for this article, Frank!
https://file770.com/norwescon-pays-tribute-to-the-works-and-impact-of-greg-bear/
Arkham Bazaar sells hard to find Lovecraftian film and audio, Cthulhu T-shirts, Uncanny art and tentacular sculptures like Cthulhu Idols, and other Oddities relating to H.P. Lovecraft and other authors of the Weird tale, like Edgar Allan Poe, Robert W. Chambers, Clark Ashton-Smith, and Robert E. Howard.
#Eastercon (the UK's major SF con)'s #Covid policy was "recommending" vaccination and "encouraging" masking. Their Facebook group is full of people reporting positive test results, and lots of other people who aren't testing positive but are reporting "at least it's just a cold" symptoms (which, of course, doesn't mean it's _not_ Covid, as home tests are good for telling you when it is, but also give a lot of false negatives).
I know it wasn't popular with everyone, and I'm sure even many of those of us who supported or encouraged the @norwescon vax/mask policy would have preferred feeling safe without the mask policy in place. But so far, I've yet to see any concerns about Covid outbreaks from our weekend. (That doesn't mean there aren't any, to be clear. I'm not in the right reporting lines to know if anything has been sent in via email. But so far, I haven't seen anybody pop up publicly to say that they pinged positive. Fingers crossed that I'm not jumping the gun or jinxing anything by posting this.)
Once again, my thanks to the #nwc45 Exec team and our wider community for being so good about creating, supporting, and following our policies to keep our community safe this year.
Norwescon
Michael Hanscom