Welcome to
Seattle Worldcon 2025!
Building Yesterday’s Future–For Everyone
August 13–17, 2025
Our Guests of Honor
Our Poet Laureate
Our Hosts
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
Here is a good question for nerdy trivia nights: Before winning a Hugo for Rendezvous with Rama in 1974, only one Arthur C. Clarke novel was a finalist for a Hugo Award for Best Novel. What was it?
Hugo nominations close tomorrow, suite requests and party notifications are open, our hotel room blocks are sold out, announcing our first Fringe events, and peeking at what we have planned for our younger members!
By now, almost everyone knows something about Dune, but did you know that Dune‘s author was born just south of Seattle on October 8, 1920, in the blue-collar city of Tacoma? Here are some enjoyable things to know about, or explore in, this neighbor of Seattle—including a way the city honors one of its most famous former residents, Frank Herbert.
Consider this a breakdown of not just the avenues to read your way into speculative poetry but also as an encouragement as to why you should.
