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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

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!

Seattle Worldcon 2025 Hugo Award Finalists
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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: Calypso and the Legacy of the Epic Poem

May 19, 2025

One Hugo best poem finalist has been of particular interest to me because its presence inadvertently reveals one of the core historical touchstones of speculative poetry and reifies the core strength of one of the greatest forms of poetry from antiquity into the modern day.

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Writing Contest Winners Announced!

May 18, 2025

Writing contest winners announced; about the Worldcon Cantina; business meeting proposals due 6/4, consultative vote open through 5/31, and virtual meeting dates; new community fund grants; childcare interest survey; masquerade directors; freebies lounge seeking donations; single-day passes available; looking for volunteers; check your settings.

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Fantastic Fiction: Check Your Assumptions at the Door: H. Beam Piper’s Little Fuzzy

May 16, 2025

H. Beam Piper’s popular and beloved Little Fuzzy, published in 1962, still has a lot to say about how we measure the intelligence of the animals we share our planet with, while it also takes us on a rollicking good adventure.

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Local Flavor: Piroshky Piroshky

May 14, 2025

For more than 30 years, Piroshky Piroshky has been supplying downtown denizens and tourists alike with both sweet and savory hand pies at Pike Place Market.

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