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

On this Giving Tuesday, a quick reminder of the ways you can support Con or Bust and help fans of color/non-white fans attend SFF cons:

• Donate money directly;
  
• Shop at Amazon;
  
• Donate con memberships; and/or
  
• Buy a T-shirt.
  

Donating Money

If you have a PayPal account ( Read more... )

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

Fans of color/non-white fans: request monetary assistance to attend upcoming SFF cons now through Friday, November 25, 2016 (yes, that’s the day after U.S. Thanksgiving). To learn how to request assistance, see the Request Assistance page. For the most up-to-date ( Read more... )

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

Jim Hines and Mary Anne Mohanraj have put out a call for submissions for essays and poems to be included in Invisible 3, an anthology whose proceeds benefit Con or Bust:

We’re looking for personal, first-hand stories between 400 and 1000 words talking about the ( Read more... )

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

Fans of color/non-white fans: request monetary assistance to attend upcoming SFF cons now through November 25, 2016. To learn how to request assistance, see the Request Assistance page. For the most up-to-date list of cons to which assistance is available, see the ( Read more... )

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

Fans of color/non-white fans: a reminder that you can request monetary assistance to attend upcoming SFF cons during November 15-25, 2016. To learn how to request assistance, see the Request Assistance page. For the most up-to-date list of cons to which assistance is ( Read more... )

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

I am pleased to announce that you can now make automatic recurring donations to Con or Bust, via PayPal, to help fans of color/non-white fans attend SFF cons. If this is something you’d like to do, the sign-up form is below the read more!

(You can also provide ( Read more... )

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

Fans of color/non-white fans: a reminder that you can request monetary assistance to attend upcoming SFF cons during November 15-25, 2016. To learn how to request assistance, see the Request Assistance page. For the most up-to-date list of cons to which assistance is ( Read more... )

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

Fans of color/non-white fans: free memberships are available to the following SFF cons that are happening very soon, including to one new con, OryCon:

• World Fantasy Convention 2016, 27 - 30 October 2016, Columbus, OH, USA. The World Fantasy Convention is an annual ( Read more... )

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

Fans of color/non-white fans: there are a number of free con memberships available now, first-come first-serve, but I want to highlight these ones that need to be claimed very soon, as soon as tomorrow (October 6) in one case:

• GeekGirlCon, October 8 & 9, 2016, ( 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 free memberships are available now, first-come first serve:

• Boskone, February 17-19, 2017, Boston, MA, USA. Boskone is an annual science fiction convention, the oldest in New England. Its 2017 Guests are: Guest of ( Read more... )