Our chairperson Ginny Smith is generously donating a signed copy of Brandon Sanderson's The Bands of Mourning for a book drawing! This bo...

WFC 2020 Guest of Honor Steve Gallagher kindly sent us an interview he created for an online Doctor Who event, and it's an absolute pleas...

If you found this blog post because you discovered a note in a book, read on! We invite you to participate in World Fantasy Convention 20...

Why Fantasy Matters I’m a relative newcomer to writing fantasy. A former engineer, I chucked my day job as a middle manager running techn...

“I used to dream about Cathy . . . dipped in chocolate . . .” At the 2004 World Fantasy Convention in Tempe, Arizona, I heard those words...

Review by Ginny Smith Four young men from the Blackfeet reservation head out to hunt elk. Their search is unsuccessful until they enter a...

Questions of genre dominate convention programming. “What is urban fantasy?” we ask. “What is grimdark?” Where is the line between high f...

Today we’re happy to welcome Ms. Charlaine Harris to the World Fantasy Convention 2020 blog. Charlaine is a New York Times bestselling au...

My first World Fantasy Convention was in 1981. That was number seven, held at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley California. It was my third...

In recent years, there’s been an increasing awareness of the importance of diversity in fiction, including diversity in gender, sexual or...

Why are there a hundred people in line to get signatures from that guy? Who is he? Neil Gaiman you say? I haven’t heard anything about hi...

When my first novel, Transformation, was published in August 2000 and I discovered that the sky did not open and reveal a whole new dimen...

Today we’re talking with author and playwright Ann Chamberlin. Ann is a member of the World Fantasy Convention and is also serving as the...

My first World Fantasy Convention was way back in 1996. I was an aspiring writer with a bunch of short stories and stack of rejection let...

When I saw a billboard ad for a Discover Steampunk exhibit, two questions immediately came to mind: When can I go see it? and Why is this...

Today we have the pleasure of chatting with Joe Haldeman, a legendary writer who is a mainstay at the World Fantasy Convention. Named a G...

Until a couple of years ago I thought of Stephen Gallagher, author Guest of Honor at WFC 2020, primarily as a screenwriter. He’s been ins...

Unlike most of today’s fantasy writers, I didn’t attend any conventions until more than ten years after my first story was published. My ...

Welcome to the official blog for the 45th World Fantasy Convention.