Welcome to
Seattle Worldcon 2025!
Building Yesterday’s Future–For Everyone
August 13–17, 2025
Our Guests of Honor
Our Poet Laureate
Our Hosts
Hugo Award Finalists
Seattle Worldcon 2025, the 83rd World Science Fiction Convention, is delighted to announce the finalists for the 2025 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and Astounding Award for Best New Writer. See all the finalists here!
The 83rd World Science Fiction Convention
Held in downtown Seattle, Washington, August 13–17, 2025. Bringing Worldcon back to Seattle for the first time since 1961!
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Venue
The Seattle Convention Center’s new Summit expansion in the heart of downtown Seattle, surrounded by amazing views of the city, mountains, and water.
Program
Hundreds of hours of panel programming, presentations, workshops, events, table talks, autograph signings, kids programming, and more. Now soliciting panelists!
The Hugo Awards
Science fiction’s most prestigious award, administered and voted on by members of the World Science Fiction Convention—this means you!
Volunteer
A Worldcon is run entirely by unpaid, volunteer staff. You too can join this community of makers, doers, and shapers, for a few hours during the con, or throughout the planning process.
Recent Updates
In 1960, when the Cold War was at its height, a remarkable science fiction film called The Silent Star was released in East Germany. It not only featured an international and multiracial crew on the first mission to Venus, but it also demonstrated that despite ideological differences, the East and West shared the same fears.
Looking for groceries downtown? Since 1946, DeLaurenti Food & Wine has been Seattle’s most complete source for specialty ingredients and novelties from around the world.
First of all, my apologies for missing my deadline of updating you in three weeks as indicated in my May 13 statement. Much of our update can be summed up as moving forward with progress but not as quickly as we had hoped.
The Washington State Ferries are a great way to see Seattle’s natural beauty from the water—and to see some incredible sea life.
