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WisCONline 2025 Dealers’ Room Applications

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If you’ve been a vendor at WisCon in the past, or intended to be a vendor this year, and are disappointed that it will be an online event, there’s good news for you. You can still be a virtual dealer on our Dealers’ Room page! Participation in this will be free, but you will need a website for us to feature. (WisCon cannot provide a payment platform for off-line businesses.)

We’re looking for about 40 vendors, which is roughly what we would have in a normal year. To sign up, please fill out our Google form here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1qRMwxRLxfg2mfzMr-5zhVqNp5hO3TLtv49LJ8OYHDIU/edit
The form will give us the 3 things we need from all participants. 1) We need your business name. 2) We need a short description of your business and what you are selling. (This is what will be displayed on the Vendors page.) 3) We need the link to your website.

We will take applicants on a first-come, first-serve basis. Applicants may apply between now and St Patrick’s day (3/17).

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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.

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2025 WisCon Town Hall

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WisCon will be holding a virtual town hall on February 19, 2025 from 7:00-8:00 pm Central.

WisCon town halls are a check-in with WisCon membership about the current state of WisCon, including our challenges and victories. This year, Chairs and members of the Board have a lot of changes to tell you about, as well!

All current and former WisCon attendees and volunteers welcome!

Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/ebg-kzqv-xyb
Or dial: ‪(US) +1 617-675-4444‬ PIN: ‪937 530 022 3950‬#
More phone numbers: https://tel.meet/ebg-kzqv-xyb?pin=9375300223950
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Volunteers Needed for WisCONline 2025: GoH Co-Lead, Apprentice Communications Chair

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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).
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Volunteers Needed for WisCONline 2025: Access Team, Writing Workshop Team

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Volunteers needed!
Access Team Member
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.
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Volunteer Needed: IT

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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).

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WisCONline Art Show Applications are Open

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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.

To apply for the show, please fill out this Google form: https://forms.gle/8D94BCMzmZCzwrZB9

Applications will be open through March 31.

Please contact the Art Show organizers (Tahlia and Sherry) at artshow@wiscon.netif you have any questions.

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WisCONline Programming Survey Opens

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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!

If you have more thoughts that cannot be covered in this survey, please feel free to email Panels@wisCon.net Otherwise, click on the link here: https://forms.gle/Q9j2A5cADQbmja6BA

The survey will be open through January 31st.

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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).
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Website Team Lead Needed

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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).

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Discord Co-Lead and Personnel Co-Chair Needed

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Discord Co-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.

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IT Infrastructure Chair and Academic Program Lead Needed

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Volunteers needed!
IT Infrastructure Chair
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.