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Seattle Worldcon 2025!

Building Yesterday’s Future–For Everyone

August 13–17, 2025

Our Guests of Honor

Martha Wells, a white woman with shoulder-length wavy dark blonde hair and waring a dark top, looks at the camera with a slight smile.

Martha Wells

Donato Giancola, a man with short-cut dark hair and goatee, wearing a grey t-shirt and jeans, sitting in the midst of an artist's studio, with finished and in-progress paintings and paint supplies around him.

Donato Giancola

Bridget Landry, a white woman with blonde medium-length hair, looking directly at the camera.

Bridget Landry

Alexander James Adams, a white man with long brown and grey hair in a ponytail, wearing a black sleeveless shirt and cowboy hat, plays a guitar and sings into a microphone.

Alexander James Adams

Our Poet Laureate

Brandon O'Brien, a black man with short hair and goatee, wearing glasses, with a slight sly grin on his face.

Brandon O’Brien

Our Hosts

K Tempest Bradford, a Black woman with curly black hair, wearing glasses, black lipstick, and a red and orange top, smiles at the camera.

K. Tempest Bradford

Nisi Shawl

Five people dressed in retrofuturistic clothing, of varied apparent races, genders, and ages. One is in a hover chair, and one is using a jetpack.

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

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Con-Verse: Speculative Poetry and the Politics of Place

March 31, 2025

Continuing to pair the early speculative tools for reading with more deeper analytical resources is still in order, so in that vein we’re going to converse about how speculative poetry wrestles with deeply sociopolitical thematic matter.

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Fantastic Fiction: Resistance

March 28, 2025

One of my favorite novels when I was a teen science fiction reader was Andre Norton’s Catseye. In the 1960s, Andre Norton, better known for adult science fiction, was also one of the most important writers of science fiction for teens.

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Around Seattle: Ballard

March 26, 2025

Once a sleepy neighborhood in Seattle, Ballard is now a go-to area for great food and fun on the beach.

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Con-Verse: Chatting with David C. Kopaska-Merkel

March 24, 2025

We should keep acquainting ourselves with some of the standout poets in this wonderful genre, so this week we’re chatting with SFPA Grand Master and editor David C. Kopaska-Merkel!

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