We are thrilled to introduce our Guests of Honor for WisCONline 2026!
Darcie Little Badger
Darcie Little Badger is a Lipan Apache writer with a PhD in oceanography. Her critically-acclaimed debut novel, Elatsoe, was featured in Time Magazine as one of the best 100 fantasy books of all time. Elatsoe also won the Locus award for best first novel and is a Nebula, Ignyte, and Lodestar finalist. Her 2nd novel, a Snake Falls to Earth, received a Nebula Award, and Ignyte Award, and a Newberry Honor and is on the National Book Awards longlist. Her 3rd book, Sheine Lende, is a prequel to Elatsoe and was a USA Today bestseller and Lodestar award winner. Darcie is married to a veterinarian named Taran.
Premee Mohamed
Premee Mohamed is a Nebula, World Fantasy, Ignyte, and Aurora award-winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. She has also been a finalist for the Hugo, Locus, British Fantasy, British Science Fiction, and Crawford awards. In 2024, she was the Edmonton Public Library writer-in-residence. She is the author of the ‘Beneath the Rising’ series of novels as well as several novellas. Her short fiction has appeared in many venues and she can be found on her website at premeemohamed.com.
Thanks to the efforts of volunteers, we are officially staffed enough to commit to WisCONline in 2026!
We intend to have WisCon 2026 over the customary Memorial Day weekend, May 21-25, 2026. GoH announcements are coming soon! We can’t wait to share more with you about what lies ahead for 2026.
We’re also excited to announce that we’re planning to have WisCon in person again in the Concourse Hotel in Madison in 2027! If you’re interested in making that happen, consider volunteering with us.
You can find current open roles here: http://wiscon.net/volunteer/concom/
The volunteer page will be continuously updated as we prepare for both upcoming WisCons.
Guest of Honor Co-Lead Want to rub elbows with some of your favorite established authors? Sign on to coordinate communication and logistics for WisCon guests of honor! As Guest of Honor Co-Lead, you’ll make sure each guest has a place on the program and coordinate liaisons as needed. Learn more by contacting personnel@sf3.org (subject: GoH Lead).
Apprentice Communications Chair
Spread the word about WisCon! As Apprentice Communications Chair you’ll help the Communications Team transmit the latest WisCon news via its website, social media, and newsletters. To learn more, please contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Apprentice Com Chair).
Do you love finding and hiring people for needed services? We need an Access Team Member to hire live Closed Captions transcribers to help make WisCONline 2025 accessible and welcoming. The process is in place, we just need someone to train and go through the steps! Please contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Access Team Member) for more info.
Writing Workshop Team Member
Nurture spec-fic writers! As Workshop Team Member you’ll help the Co-Leads manage video call rooms for critique sessions and special topic sessions and/or take shifts for writing sprints for WisCONline 2025. Contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Workshop Team Member) for more information.
IT volunteer needed: If you have experience with server infrastructure (LAMP stack knowledge desired but not required), we’d love your help with our server migration project. This position can last until the end of the project or can be a longer-term role, depending our your availability and interest. For more information, please contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: IT volunteer).
Since the con is online-only this year, we won’t be setting up a physical room or selling artists’ work directly (or charging commission fees). However, we would still love to see and show the artwork of the WisCon community!
In past years, the Art Show has included painting, drawing, illustration, photography, comics, printmaking, jewelry and other wearable art, sculpture, and more — basically, please do apply if you make any form of visual art and want to share it with WisCon members.
The online show will consist of images and descriptions submitted by artists, curated on a 2025 Art Show page on wiscon.net. They will also be shared on WisCon’s social media, and artists who attend will be able to post about their work in an Art Show channel on the private WisCon Discord.
Get excited everyone! We’re starting to plan WisCon 2025, which means we need you to tell us what you want it to be.
This year, we’re using a Google form for our interest survey so you can express interest in all the things we’re doing in one place. Note that there is no section for gaming or parties because we weren’t sure how much interest there would be with an online-only con. But if that is your thing and you want one of those things to happen at WisCon this year, there’s a space at the end of the survey for you!
Love being the center of attention? Become Ceremonies Lead for the WisCONline 2025! You’ll organize the Sunday evening awards ceremony, introduce our Guests of Honor, recognize the contributions of committee chairs (and possibly Otherwise folk), and make other important announcements as needed. This is your chance to shine. Contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Ceremonies Lead) for more information.
Gathering Lead
If you believe in the importance of social connections, Gathering Lead is the role for you. You’ll solicit gathering activity ideas (via the Communications team) and organize Discord channels to help people socialize as they join WisCONline 2025.
If helping people connect with friends, established and new, is your passion, please contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Gathering Lead).
Access Team Member
Help make WisCONline 2025 accessible and welcoming to all! You’ll work with the Access Lead(s) to provide Closed Captions, facilitate Alt Text, and troubleshoot other accessibility issues as they arise. For more information, please contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Access Team Member).
Be in the know as WisCONline’s Website Team Lead. You’ll update our website with the most current con information, coordinating with IT Infrastructure Lead, AppDev Lead, and other con leads. Expect to spend about 2 hours a week in this position. Familiarity with WordPress a must. For more information contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Website Team Lead).
Here’s your chance to shine and make order out of Discord! As part of the Online Con team, you’ll set up and manage the WisCon Discord. You’ll coordinate with other departments on programming-specific channels, and help manage Discord volunteers and at-Con moderators to help online attendees connect. If you’re familiar with Discord or similar computer-mediated chat systems and are a skilled project manager, we need you! Contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Discord Lead) for more information.
Personnel Co-Chair:
Do you have experience with HR or volunteer coordination and management? You can help SF3 gear up for the next WisCon! This remote role involves checking progress and follow-up with Personnel volunteers for a few hours per week. The Personnel Co-Chair is a member of the SF3 Personnel Committee and reports to the SF3 Vice President. Contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Personnel Co-Chair) for more information.
If you have a passion for translating between tech folks and mere mortals, the role of IT Infrastructure Chair is for you! As IT Chair, you’ll make sure the information technology infrastructure of WisCon runs smoothly, including the website, and WisCONline scheduling and registrations apps. Expect to spend 3-5 hours a week on this critical volunteer position. To find out more, email personnel@sf3.org (subject: IT Chair).
Academic Program Lead
If you love research that supports feminist science fiction and fantasy, then the Academic Program Lead position is for you! You’ll draft a call for proposals from professors, researchers, doctoral candidates and grad students studying fields related to feminist science fiction to present their research at WisCONline 2025. You’ll schedule presentations, and then publish the results after the convention. Templates from previous academic programming leads available. Contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Academic Lead) for more information!
For more information about either of these positions (or if you’d like to volunteer, but neither of these is a good fit for you), you can also check out our list of Open Volunteer Positions.
Are you fascinated by the big picture and happy to let others handle mundane details? Or perhaps you love connecting people to facilitate effective action. You may be the perfect candidate to become Vice President of the SF3 Board. Expect to spend 3-7 hours a month as the liaison between the Board and WisCon committee chairs in this crucial role.
