Originally posted at Con or Bust by Kate Nepveu. All comments must be made there.

Reminder to fans of color/non-white fans: you can request assistance from Con or Bust to attend upcoming SFF cons four times a year, and the next time begins this week, Wednesday, February 15, and runs through February 25.

Please check out the Request Assistance ( Read more... )

Originally posted at Con or Bust by Kate Nepveu. All comments must be made there.

In March, Con or Bust’s Board of Directors will be electing up to four members to the Board, for terms of up to three years. Anyone can be a candidate; if you are interested, or if you want to encourage someone else to run, please read on for more information.

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Originally posted at Con or Bust by Kate Nepveu. All comments must be made there.

Reminder to fans of color/non-white fans: you can request assistance from Con or Bust to attend upcoming SFF cons four times a year, and the next time is February 15-25, 2017. Please check out the Request Assistance page to see how the process works. There are also ( Read more... )

Originally posted at Con or Bust by Kate Nepveu. All comments must be made there.

Fans of color/non-white fans, I’m pleased to announce the following new memberships to upcoming cons:

• TGIF/F, April 7-9, 2017, Los Angeles, CA, USA. TGIF/F is a multi-fandom femslash convention designed to bring together various fan communities to build connections ( Read more... )

Originally posted at Con or Bust by Kate Nepveu. All comments must be made there.

Please use con.or.bust@gmail.com for email temporarily, until I get some tech stuff straightened out! Thanks very much.

Originally posted at Con or Bust by Kate Nepveu. All comments must be made there.

Fans of color/non-white fans: the following free memberships to SFF conventions are available now, first-come first-serve:

• Farpoint, February 17-19, 2017, Baltimore, MD, USA. Farpoint is an annual gathering for fans of all genres of imaginative fiction - Science ( Read more... )

Originally posted at Con or Bust by Kate Nepveu. All comments must be made there.

I will be running the Arisia Bake Sale this year on Saturday, January 14, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (or whenever we run out of food), to benefit both Con or Bust and the Tiptree Award.

If you’re coming to Arisia, please stop by-to buy something, to bring food, or ( Read more... )

Originally posted at Con or Bust by Kate Nepveu. All comments must be made there.

Fans of color/non-white fans: the following new memberships are now available, first-come first-serve:

• Norwescon, April 13-16, 2017, Seattle, WA, USA. Norwescon is the Pacific Northwest’s premier science fiction and fantasy convention and one of the largest regional ( Read more... )

Originally posted at Con or Bust by Kate Nepveu. All comments must be made there.

Fans of color/non-white fans: Con or Bust has been donated the following new free memberships, available now first-come first-serve:

• HELIOsphere, March 10-12, 2017, Tarrytown, NY, USA. HELIOsphere is a new science fiction and fantasy convention. Its Guests of Honor ( Read more... )

Originally posted at Con or Bust by Kate Nepveu. All comments must be made there.

Fans of color/non-white fans: the following free membership is available now, first-come first-serve:

• MidSouthCon, March 24-26, 2017, Memphis, TN, USA. MidSouthCon is the longest-running annual ran-run multi-genre Science Fiction Convention in the Mid-South. Its GoHs ( Read more... )