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WisCONline 2025

Urgent Call for Panelists for WisCONline 2025

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WisCon has an urgent need for panelists.
On May 19, the WisCon Panels team will pare down the schedule based on what we have not been able to staff. That means, we need you to get the word out to all the cool people to come be part of this con and make it awesome.
Please email Panels@WisCon.sf3.org if you are able to participate!We are particularly in need for people on the following:

  • Wheel of Time needs a moderator
  • Does Baby Have Hat needs at least a moderator.
  • The Year Without Sunshine and Other Stories 
  • Imagining the Past, Divining the Future: The Works of Andrea Hairston 
  • Citizen Sleeper’s Personhood in Capitalism needs a moderator.
  • Not Another Race Panel
  • The Year in Trans SFF has a moderator but needs panelists.
  • Using Magical Realism to Build Collective Realities
  • The Wild World of Modern Agtech and Why Isn’t it Showing Up in Current SFF
  • Going Beyond Representation: Speculations on Creating Disabled Worldbuilding, 
  • Games We Love
  • Resistance Lessons From History needs a BIPOC panelist with historical knowledge or resistance participation.
  • Good News, Everyone
WisCONline 2025

WisCONline 2025 Registration is Live!

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Are you ready for WisCon 2025? Registration is now open here: https://wiscon2025.sched.com

Tickets for WisCon this year are “pay what you can” with a few suggested amounts available. However, you can truly pay whatever makes sense for you (no pressure or judgement!) including $0. To pay a different amount than the suggested options, contact registration@wiscon.net with the desired amount so we can issue you a code.

Please note that the schedule is not yet available but we will let you know as soon as it is.

As a reminder, WisCon takes place over May 23-26, 2025 and is online only this year (“WisCONline”). We can’t wait to see you there!

For any other questions, contact onlinecon@wiscon.net.

WisCONline 2025

WisCon 47 Guests of Honor — Naomi Kritzer & Andrea Hairston

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We are thrilled to introduce our Guests of Honor for WisCONline 2025!

Naomi Kritzer

Naomi Kritzer is a science fiction and fantasy writer from St. Paul, Minnesota. In Minneapolis and St. Paul, she is probably best known for her political blog, which provides deep-dive information on candidates in local political races. Outside of the Twin Cities, she is best known for her fiction, which has won the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Edgar Award, and the Minnesota Book Award. She has a spouse, two grown kids and three cats (the number of cats is subject to change without notice). You can find Naomi online at naomikritzer.com or on Bluesky as @naomikritzer.bsky.social.

Andrea Hairston

Andrea Hairston is a novelist, playwright, poet, and L. Wolff Kahn 1931 Professor Emerita of Theatre and Africana Studies at Smith College. She ran away from the physics lab to the theatre when she was a young thing and has been a scientist, artiste, and hoodoo conjurer ever since. Novels: Archangels of Funk; Will Do Magic For Small Change, a New York Times Editor’s pick and finalist for the Mythopoeic, Lambda, and Otherwise Awards; Redwood and Wildfire, a Washington Post Best Book of 2022, Otherwise and Carl Brandon Award winner; Master of Poisons on the 2020 Kirkus Review’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy. Her short fiction appears in So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Visions of the Future; New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color; Trouble the Waters; and Lightspeed Magazine. Plays and essays are collected in Lonely Stardust. Tor Publishing Group will publish Mindscape on August 5, 2025. Andrea bikes at night year-round, meeting bears, multi-legged creatures of light and breath, and the occasional shooting star.

WisCONline 2025

Volunteers Needed for WisCONline 2025: Ceremonies Lead, Gathering Lead, Access Team

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Ceremonies Lead
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).
WisCONline 2025

Announcing WisCONline 2025

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The WisCon Convention Committee is pleased to announce that we will be having an online convention in 2025!

What will WisCONline 2025 look like? In addition to being fully online with no in person presence, we are currently looking at changes to WisCon to make it more sustainable for our volunteers. This means WisCon may appear to “shrink”, but if we offer less (for example, fewer panels), it’s because our focus is on quality and maintaining WisCon’s values.

While we can’t give exact details this early, more than ever, the capacity WisCon has to do the things we all love will depend on having volunteers step up. We’re committed to avoiding the past burnout we’ve seen come from volunteers taking on too many roles.

When is it? It will take place Memorial Day weekend as always! (May 23-26, 2025, with some programming possible Thursday evening and Tuesday morning.)

Why online only? Unfortunately we weren’t able to recruit key volunteers in time to make an in-person con viable. We’re excited, however, to use this opportunity to explore what we can do to engage and reach our community in ways we can’t usually.

When can I register? We will send out more information soon about registering!

How can I get involved? We are still in need of many important volunteer roles, which will determine what the con actually looks like. Please check our list at
https://wiscon.net/open-volunteer-positions/
and contact personnel@sf3.org if there are any roles you’re interested in. Also look out for panel submission requests and other contact from our team!