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Official Announcements, WisCon 44

Updates for WisCon 44

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Reservations for both hotels and memberships for WisCon 44 are now open! Our amazing guests of honor are:

Yoon Ha Lee

Yoon Ha Lee’s debut novel from Solaris Books, NINEFOX GAMBIT, won the Locus Award for best first novel and was a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Clarke awards.  Its sequel, RAVEN STRATAGEM, was a finalist for the Hugo.  He has also written a middle grade space opera, DRAGON PEARL, from Disney-Hyperion.  He lives in Louisiana with his family and an extremely lazy cat, and has not yet been eaten by gators.

Rebecca Roanhorse

Rebecca Roanhorse is a Nebula and Hugo Award-winning speculative fiction writer and the recipient of the 2018 Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her short fiction has also been a finalist for the Sturgeon, Locus and World Fantasy awards. Her novel Trail of Lightning (Book 1 in the Sixth World series) was selected as an Amazon, B&N, and NRP Best Books of 2018, among others, and is a Nebula and Hugo award finalist for 2019. Storm of Locusts, the second novel in the Sixth World series, was recently released to critical acclaim. She lives with her husband, daughter and dogs in Northern New Mexico.

Note on Hotel Offerings

We wanted to draw attention to a slight change in our Governor’s Club booking. Beginning WisCon 44, we will no longer be offering rooms for four people on the Governor’s Club level. Rooms for three people (including a rollaway bed) will still be available for WisCon 44.

We know that this is a change! We will continue to work with the awesome folks at the Concourse Hotel to advocate for our membership while respecting the needs of the hotel.
Thanks and we’ll see you next year!
Official Announcements, WisCon 43

Announcing our WisCon 43 Guests of Honor — G. Willow Wilson & Charlie Jane Anders

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We are overjoyed to introduce our Guests of Honor for WisCon 43!

G. Willow Wilson

G. Willow Wilson lives in both Egypt and the United States. She is the author of two books, five graphic novels and two comic book series, including her first novel, Alif the Unseen, and the comic book series Ms. Marvel. Her memoir about life in Egypt during the waning years of the Mubarak regime, The Butterfly Mosque, has served as a common read for communities and campuses across the country.

Charlie Jane Anders

Charlie Jane Anders is the author of The City in the Middle of the Night, plus an upcoming young-adult trilogy. Her novel All the Birds in the Sky won the Nebula, Crawford and Locus awards, and her short story “Six Months, Three Days” won a Hugo. She’s also published a novella, Rock Manning Goes For Broke, and a story collection called Six Months, Three Days, Five Others. She was a founding editor of io9.com, and organizes the monthly Writers With Drinks reading series.