LAcon V Schedule, by Area

Academic

Thursday 12:00pm Fraud and Knightly Identity in Dunk and Egg

Thursday 12:30pm Designing a Dystopia Using Real Science

Thursday 1:30pm Time and Ongoing Death of Science Fiction

Thursday 2:00pm From Mad Max to Cyberpunk: Agency in Hostile Spaces

Thursday 3:00pm CSI: Sabertooth Edition

Thursday 3:30pm Dogs as a Template for Your Futuristic Breeding Program

Friday 9:00am The Ethical Exploration of the Solar System

Friday 9:30am True Communities in Imagined Futures

Friday 10:30am Economics of Extraterrestrial Mining in Fact and Fiction

Friday 11:00am Audiofuturism: The Black History of SF Radio Drama

Friday 12:00pm Science Fiction as Thought Experiment and SETI

Friday 12:00pm Medieval Marginalia

Friday 1:30pm Using Body Experience to Communicate Science

Friday 2:00pm Menopause as Template for Character Change

Friday 3:00pm Mass Extinctions and Speculative Biology

Friday 3:00pm Acafandom: the Academic Study of Fandoms

Friday 3:30pm The Science and Fiction of Population and Extinction

Friday 4:30pm Atypical Phenomenologies: Secondary World Building

Friday 5:00pm African Eco-Spirituality: Reclaiming Forested Spaces

Saturday 6:00am A Cottage Garden Conundrum: Fantastical Garden Re-Creation

Saturday 6:30am AI Personhood: Now?

Saturday 9:00am Data Centers and the Death of the Grid?

Saturday 9:30am Paramount: Pitfalls of Kleptocratic Corporatacracy

Saturday 10:30am Contextualizing Death Personifications

Saturday 10:30am The Bantu Languages And Cultures

Saturday 11:00am Understanding The Culture: Misunderstanding Banks

Saturday 12:00pm Crypto’s Utopian Paradox

Saturday 12:30pm Untaming Fandom: Furry and Fan Communities

Saturday 1:30pm The Films of Segundo de Chomon: Tripping the Normcore Fantastic

Saturday 2:00pm Transgender witching and storytelling

Saturday 3:00pm How, Then, Shall We Travel in Space?

Saturday 3:30pm The Alternative Darwinisms of Adrian Tchaikovsky

Saturday 4:30pm Pink Collar Galaxy: Feminized Professions In the Hugos

Saturday 5:00pm Unexpected Zombies: Get Out as White Zombie

Sunday 9:00am Building Wonderfully Strange Characters and Places

Sunday 9:30am Cultural Values in Eastern Storytelling Structures

Sunday 10:30am Design Through Concept-Driven Investigation

Sunday 11:00am High School SF Prototyping: Divergence-Convergence

Sunday 12:00pm How SF Prevents Disasters: A Sociopolitical Model of Action

Sunday 12:30pm Between Art and Action: An Ethnography of Solarpunk

Sunday 2:00pm Academic Poster Session

Sunday 4:30pm The Shape of Science Fiction

Sunday 5:00pm Islamic Aesthetics in Works of LC Barragán Castro

Monday 9:00am Refusing Cure: Disability and Agency in SF Film

Monday 9:30am Understanding Our Place in Nature

Monday 10:30am Reimagining Presence in Asynchronous Learning

Monday 11:00am The New Popular Science of Amazing Stories

After Dark

Thursday 7:30pm Tropes in Transformative Works

Friday 6:00pm Wait, How Many Arms Does That Make? Writing Sex Accurately

Friday 7:30pm Why is Fanfic So Sexy?

Saturday 9:00pm Kink After Dark

Anime

Thursday 3:00pm Americanized Anime

Thursday 4:30pm LGBTQ+ Representation in Anime and Manga

Thursday 6:00pm Hidden Gems of Anime

Friday 10:30am Books Inspired By Anime and How Anime Inspires Your Creative Work

Friday 6:00pm Books Inspired By Anime and How Anime Inspires Your Creative Work (Virtual)

Saturday 9:00am The Music of Anime (Virtual)

Saturday 6:00pm Spirited Away At 25

Sunday 7:30am Hidden Gems of Anime (Virtual)

Sunday 10:30am The Art Process of Stan Sakai

Art

Thursday 12:00pm In Conversation—Colleen Doran, Tim Kirk, and Stan Sakai

Thursday 12:00pm Monumental Art in Hollywood

Thursday 4:30pm Art Show Docent Tour: Richard Man

Thursday 6:00pm What It Means to Be a Fan Artist

Thursday 6:00pm The Art of Content Creation

Friday 9:00am Art in Space: Bridget Duffy

Friday 9:00am Draw a Dragon with Tim Kirk: Adults’ Workshop

Friday 10:30am How to Start an Art Collection

Friday 10:30am SFF Art History

Friday 10:30am Figure Drawing Demo

Friday 10:30am Art Show Docent Tour: Colleen Doran

Friday 10:30am Ship It Safely

Friday 10:30am The Role of Tattoos and Tattooing in SFF

Friday 12:00pm Pro Artists Painting Session

Friday 12:00pm Tiara Workshop with Sara Felix

Friday 1:30pm Making Makers Make

Friday 1:30pm Learn Watercolor Wash Technique

Friday 1:30pm Paint Along—Gaming Figures

Friday 1:30pm Balancing Art and Commercial Appeal

Friday 3:00pm How to Give Dang Good Feedback

Friday 3:00pm Art Show Docent Tour: Tim Kirk

Friday 4:30pm The 20 Minute Masterpiece Competition!

Friday 4:30pm Cartography in SFF

Friday 7:00pm Art Show Reception: Meet the Artists!

Friday 7:30pm Making Space for Making

Saturday 9:00am Scenic Art and Paint Wizardry

Saturday 10:30am Imagining How Art Will Look in the Future

Saturday 10:30am Closeup: The 2026 Hugo Award Best Professional Artist Roundtable

Saturday 10:30am Art Show Docent Tour: Stan Sakai

Saturday 10:30am Draw a Dragon with Tim Kirk: Kids’ Workshop

Saturday 12:00pm How Do You Price Your Art?

Saturday 12:00pm A Journey from the Reservation to Los Angeles

Saturday 12:00pm Art Show Docent Tour: Vincent Di Fate

Saturday 1:30pm Paint Around

Saturday 1:30pm Oneiroframes Demo

Saturday 1:30pm Depicting Diversity in Visual Art

Saturday 3:00pm Designing Things That Don’t Exist

Saturday 3:00pm Artist, Craftsperson, Maker, Crafter, Hacker: What’s in a Name?

Saturday 3:00pm So You Want To Be In A Convention Art Show

Saturday 3:00pm Life Drawing Workshop

Saturday 3:00pm Artist Alley with Tim Kirk

Saturday 3:00pm Docent Tour of the Bellringer Exhibit

Saturday 4:30pm What’s the Most Important Advice to Give Aspiring Artists?

Saturday 7:30pm Landscapes of the Mind: Fabrice Guerrier (Virtual)

Sunday 9:00am You Stole My Art!

Sunday 10:30am Collecting Fine Art in The Age of the Digital Print

Sunday 10:30am En Plein Air: A California Art Tradition Adapted for Other Planets!

Sunday 10:30am Adventures in Mixed Media

Sunday 12:00pm Creative Practice for Neurodivergent Artists

Sunday 12:00pm Tim Kirk: A Lifetime of Imagination

Sunday 12:00pm En Plein Air: Create Your Own Planetscape

Sunday 1:30pm What Is Fan Art?

Sunday 1:30pm Technology and Art

Sunday 3:00pm Life Goes On—Profit vs Sustainability in Creative Projects

Sunday 3:00pm Oil Painting Demonstration

Sunday 3:00pm Art of Tarot

Sunday 4:30pm Cultural Inspiration

Sunday 4:30pm Art in Space: Human-created Surrealism and Futurism

Sunday 4:30pm How to Frame Art

Monday 9:00am SF/F/H Influences from Classical and Mainstream Art

Monday 10:30am Crossing the Streams: Combining 2D and 3D Art Techniques

Monday 12:00pm A Song of Carbon & Water

Autographing

Thursday 12:00pm New and Indie Autographing: Makana Yamamoto

Thursday 12:00pm New and Indie Autographing: Henry Lien

Thursday 12:00pm Autographing: JS Ruff

Thursday 12:00pm New and Indie Autographing: Justin C. Key

Thursday 1:30pm Autographing: Jeremy Szal

Thursday 1:30pm Autographing: Katie Hallahan

Thursday 1:30pm Autographing: Darcie Little Badger

Thursday 1:30pm Autographing: Bruce Schneier

Thursday 1:30pm Autographing: Foz Meadows

Thursday 3:00pm Autographing: William Ledbetter

Thursday 3:00pm Autographing: Leslie S Klinger

Thursday 3:00pm Autographing: Isabel J. Kim

Thursday 3:00pm Autographing: G. David Nordley

Thursday 3:00pm Autographing: C. B. Lee

Thursday 3:00pm Autographing: Lavanya Lakshminarayan

Thursday 4:30pm Autographing: Mary Robinette Kowal

Thursday 4:30pm Autographing: Laura Frankos

Thursday 4:30pm Autographing: Benjamin Rosenbaum

Thursday 4:30pm Autographing: Gideon Marcus

Thursday 6:00pm Autographing: Alyc Helms

Thursday 6:00pm Autographing: Alexandra Rowland

Thursday 6:00pm Autographing: Thomas Ha

Thursday 6:00pm Autographing: K. M. Enright

Thursday 6:00pm Autographing: Margaret Owen

Thursday 6:00pm Autographing: Marie Brennan

Friday 9:00am Autographing: Heather Rose Jones

Friday 9:00am Autographing: Samantha Mills

Friday 9:00am Autographing: Richard Swan

Friday 9:00am Autographing: Anuja Varghese

Friday 9:00am Autographing: DaVaun Sanders

Friday 9:00am Autographing: Dr Anita Sengupta

Friday 10:30am Autographing: Marc Scott Zicree

Friday 10:30am Autographing: Robin Hobb

Friday 10:30am Autographing: John Scalzi

Friday 10:30am Autographing: James Patrick Kelly

Friday 10:30am Autographing: Howard V. Hendrix

Friday 10:30am Autographing: Tracey Baptiste

Friday 12:00pm Autographing: Chris Kluwe

Friday 12:00pm Autographing: Dave Smeds

Friday 12:00pm Autographing: Luke Chmilenko

Friday 12:00pm Autographing: Walter Jon Williams

Friday 12:00pm Autographing: Tracy Drain

Friday 12:00pm Autographing: Mary Turzillo

Friday 1:30pm Autographing: Dave Kellett

Friday 1:30pm Autographing: Martha Wells

Friday 1:30pm Autographing: Claire E. Jones

Friday 1:30pm Autographing: Charlie Jane Anders

Friday 1:30pm Autographing: Annalee Newitz

Friday 1:30pm Autographing: Cassidy Ellis Salter

Friday 3:00pm Autographing: Lawrence Watt-Evans

Friday 3:00pm Autographing: M. J. Kuhn

Friday 3:00pm Autographing: Maria Alexander

Friday 3:00pm Autographing: Colleen Doran

Friday 3:00pm Autographing: Aparna Verma

Friday 3:00pm Autographing: Larry Niven

Friday 4:30pm Autographing: Sophie Burnham

Friday 4:30pm Autographing: Ronald D. Moore

Friday 4:30pm Autographing: Salinee Goldenberg

Friday 4:30pm Autographing: Tim Powers

Friday 4:30pm Autographing: Antonia Hodgson

Friday 4:30pm Autographing: Victoria Aveyard

Friday 6:00pm Autographing: Veronica G. Henry

Friday 6:00pm Autographing: Natania Barron

Friday 6:00pm Autographing: Catherynne M. Valente

Friday 6:00pm Autographing: Bruce McAllister

Friday 6:00pm Autographing: Marshall Ryan Maresca

Friday 6:00pm Autographing: Andrea Stewart

Saturday 9:00am Autographing: Jasmine Kuliasha

Saturday 9:00am Autographing: Tamika Thompson

Saturday 9:00am Autographing: Yume Kitasei

Saturday 9:00am Autographing: N.E. Davenport

Saturday 9:00am New and Indie Autographing: Emily Skrutskie

Saturday 9:00am Autographing: A. J. Hackwith

Saturday 10:30am Autographing: Carrie Vaughn

Saturday 10:30am Autographing: Elizabeth Bear

Saturday 10:30am Autographing: Neil Clarke

Saturday 10:30am Autographing: Steven Barnes

Saturday 10:30am Autographing: Scott Lynch

Saturday 10:30am Autographing: Tananarive Due

Saturday 12:00pm Autographing: Max Gladstone

Saturday 12:00pm Autographing: Seanan McGuire

Saturday 12:00pm Autographing: Ellen Datlow

Saturday 12:00pm Autographing: Julie Leong

Saturday 12:00pm Autographing: Amal El-Mohtar

Saturday 1:30pm Autographing: Leigh Bardugo

Saturday 1:30pm Autographing: Tim Kirk

Saturday 1:30pm Autographing: Kamilah Cole

Saturday 1:30pm Autographing: David Brin

Saturday 1:30pm Autographing: John Picacio

Saturday 1:30pm Autographing: Robert J. Sawyer

Saturday 3:00pm Autographing: Robert Silverberg

Saturday 3:00pm Autographing: Micaiah Johnson

Saturday 3:00pm Autographing: Ai Jiang

Saturday 3:00pm Autographing: Alex Pheby

Saturday 3:00pm Autographing: T. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon)

Saturday 3:00pm Autographing: Alasdair Stuart

Saturday 4:30pm Autographing: Kylie Lee Baker

Saturday 4:30pm Autographing: Robert Jackson Bennett

Saturday 4:30pm Autographing: Arkady Martine

Saturday 4:30pm Autographing: Michael J. DeLuca

Saturday 4:30pm Autographing: Jean-Paul L. Garnier

Saturday 4:30pm Autographing: Mur Lafferty

Sunday 9:00am Autographing: Howard Tayler

Sunday 9:00am Autographing: Valerie Estelle Frankel

Sunday 9:00am Autographing: Rosemary Claire Smith

Sunday 9:00am Autographing: Daryl Gregory

Sunday 9:00am Autographing: Terese Mason Pierre

Sunday 9:00am Autographing: Brenda Cooper

Sunday 10:30am Autographing: Cynthia Ward

Sunday 10:30am Autographing: David Gerrold

Sunday 10:30am Autographing: Ian Patterson

Sunday 10:30am Autographing: Kate Elliott

Sunday 10:30am Autographing: Michael Cassutt

Sunday 10:30am Autographing: Charlaine Harris

Sunday 12:00pm New and Indie Autographing: Tara Sim

Sunday 12:00pm Autographing: David D. Levine

Sunday 12:00pm Autographing: J.R. Dawson

Sunday 12:00pm Autographing: Auston Habershaw

Sunday 12:00pm Autographing: Gail Carriger

Sunday 12:00pm Autographing: Fran Wilde

Sunday 1:30pm Autographing: Fonda Lee

Sunday 1:30pm Autographing: H.H. Pak

Sunday 1:30pm Autographing: Alex Shvartsman

Sunday 1:30pm Autographing: J.V.Jones

Sunday 1:30pm Autographing: Jay Kristoff

Sunday 3:00pm Autographing: Barbara Hambly

Sunday 3:00pm Autographing: SB Divya

Sunday 3:00pm Autographing: Rich Horton

Sunday 3:00pm Autographing: Harry Turtledove

Sunday 3:00pm Autographing: Joe Haldeman

Sunday 3:00pm Autographing: Sarah Rees Brennan

Sunday 4:30pm Autographing: Nick Mamatas

Sunday 4:30pm Autographing: Cecilia Tan

Sunday 4:30pm Autographing: Holly Black

Monday 9:00am New and Indie Autographing: Julia Bianco

Monday 9:00am Autographing: Stan Sakai

Monday 9:00am Autographing: Theodora Goss

Monday 9:00am Autographing: J. L. Doty

Monday 9:00am Autographing: R. P. Singletary

Monday 10:30am Autographing: James Islington

Monday 10:30am Autographing: Trang Thanh Tran

Monday 10:30am Autographing: Matt Youngmark

Monday 10:30am Autographing: Jeremy Clift

Monday 10:30am Autographing: Molly O’Neill

Monday 10:30am Autographing: Palmer Pickering

Monday 12:00pm Autographing: Scott Edelman

Monday 12:00pm Autographing: Anand Gandhi

Monday 12:00pm Autographing: Gabrielle de Cuir

Monday 12:00pm Autographing: Dustin Adair

Monday 12:00pm Autographing: Melissa Bobe

Monday 12:00pm Autographing: Lin Codega

Monday 1:30pm Autographing: Liz Argall

Monday 1:30pm Autographing: Jonathan Brazee

Monday 1:30pm Autographing: Richard Sparks

Monday 1:30pm Autographing: Jared Pechacek

Monday 1:30pm Autographing: Jeff Sturgeon

Monday 1:30pm Autographing: Stefan Rudnicki

Children’s Literature

Sunday 10:30am Special Guest Interview: Tracey Baptiste

Children’s Program

Thursday 12:00pm Children’s Tour: Dealers Room

Thursday 12:00pm Balloon Animal Sculpting Workshop (Kids’ Edition)

Thursday 12:00pm Noses, Ears, and Tails! Oh My!

Thursday 1:30pm Children’s Tour: Exhibits Hall

Thursday 1:30pm Build Your Own Monster

Thursday 3:00pm Personalize a Card

Thursday 3:00pm Easy Costuming Tricks for Kids

Thursday 4:30pm Children’s Filk Concert

Thursday 4:30pm Journal Making

Friday 9:00am Coloring Time

Friday 9:00am Writing Filk Songs with Kids

Friday 10:30am How to Write Stories for Video Games

Friday 12:00pm Capes, Cloaks, and Shawls

Friday 12:00pm Children’s Tour: Art Show

Friday 1:30pm Fantasy Worldbuilding For Kids

Friday 1:30pm Children’s Tour: Dealers Room

Friday 1:30pm Wing Making

Friday 3:00pm Story Time with Odin: Cat of Thunder

Friday 3:00pm Beaded Creations

Friday 4:30pm Wands & Sonic Screwdrivers

Friday 4:30pm Magical Animals in Literature for Kids

Saturday 9:00am Kids’ Choice Awards

Saturday 10:30am Children’s Tour: Dealers Room

Saturday 10:30am Create a Rocket to Launch

Saturday 12:00pm Children’s Tour: Exhibits Hall

Saturday 12:00pm Create Your Own Adventure Live!

Saturday 1:30pm Launch a Rocket—Kids

Saturday 1:30pm Take a Stroll Through the Solar System

Saturday 3:00pm Make A Star Map For Your Bedroom

Saturday 3:00pm Chenille Stem Creations

Saturday 4:30pm The Daring Feats of the Voyager Spacecraft

Saturday 6:00pm Musical Instrument Petting Zoo

Sunday 9:00am Science Fiction Worldbuilding for kids

Sunday 10:30am Create a Friend

Sunday 10:30am Stamping Away

Sunday 10:30am Children’s Tour: Art Show

Sunday 12:00pm Cursive Club

Sunday 12:00pm Balloon Animal Sculpting Workshop (KIds’ Edition—Sunday)

Sunday 12:00pm Children’s Tour: Exhibits Hall

Sunday 12:00pm Lighting up the nanoscale

Sunday 1:30pm What Can You Make out of a T-shirt?

Sunday 1:30pm How Games Are Used as Social Gatherings (Kids)

Sunday 3:00pm Frame Decorating

Sunday 4:30pm Mask Making

Monday 8:00am Family Board Games: Morning Edition

Monday 9:00am Learn to Make a Stellated Octohedron

Monday 9:00am Dungeon Worldbuilding for Kids

Monday 10:30am Create a Playing Card

Monday 12:00pm More Friendship Bracelets

Monday 1:30pm Game Time

Monday 1:30pm Do Games Help Kids to Work Out Issues?

Monday 2:30pm Looking for “Easter Eggs” in Games, Movies, or Elsewhere?

Clarion Presents

Thursday 10:30am Clarion Presents: Writing Horror at Home

Thursday 12:00pm Clarion Presents: What Happens After the Workshop? The Path to Revision

Friday 4:30pm Clarion Presents: Brief Illuminations – Experimenting with Flash Fiction 

Saturday 9:00am Welcome to Clarion San Diego!

Saturday 9:00am Clarion Presents: Writing Folk Horror – Linking the Chain

Saturday 12:00pm Clarion Presents: How to Be a Good Critique Partner

Sunday 9:00am Clarion Presents: It’s a Start – A Workshop On Your First Paragraph

Sunday 1:30pm Clarion Presents: Elevator Pitch Class

Sunday 4:30pm Clarion Presents: Grafting Idea and Story

Monday 9:00am Clarion Presents: The Practice of Short Story Submissions

Monday 12:00pm Clarion Presents: Your Guide to No Problem Point of View

Comics & Graphic Novels

Thursday 10:30am Borderless: Building an Ecosystem for African Graphic Novels

Thursday 12:00pm The Rise of the Middle Reader/YA Graphic Novel

Thursday 1:30pm The Punk in Cyberpunk

Thursday 3:00pm Are We Really Tired of Superhero Movies?

Thursday 4:30pm Games as Pedagogy

Thursday 4:30pm Current Landscape of Speculative Fiction Comics and Graphic Novels

Thursday 6:00pm Sherlock Holmes Through Time and Space

Thursday 7:30pm Exploring the Spider-Verse!

Friday 9:00am Welcome to THE INVISIBLE PARADE

Friday 10:30am Stan Sakai: A Comics Legend in Conversation

Friday 10:30am Canceled Comics: Celebrating Lost But Not Forgotten Comics

Friday 12:00pm Science vs. Magic

Friday 12:00pm Queerness in Comics: Representation vs. Metaphor

Friday 3:00pm Subverting Harmful Tropes in Spec Fic

Friday 6:00pm The Indie Comics Panel: The Big 25%

Friday 7:30pm It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s the Superman Panel!

Saturday 9:00am The X-Men Phenomenon

Saturday 12:00pm Colleen Doran: Time in Storytelling

Saturday 12:00pm The Comic Book Sommelier

Sunday 6:00am Queerness in Comics: Representation vs. Metaphor (Virtual)

Sunday 1:30pm Multidisciplinary Futures: Creating SFF Across Media

Costuming & Cosplay

Thursday 1:30pm My First Masquerade

Thursday 4:30pm Creating Craft Spaces

Friday 9:00am Fashion as Worldbuilding in Speculative Fiction

Friday 10:30am Fashioning Words: Creating Costumes Based on Books

Friday 3:00pm Traveling with Costumes

Friday 4:30pm Craft and Chat (Friday)

Friday 6:00pm Thanks, It Has Pockets!

Friday 6:00pm So You Want To Run A Masquerade—How To Make It Awesome!

Saturday 9:00am Accessorize! Taking Looks to the Next Level

Saturday 10:30am Exploring Easy Tricks for Costuming Kids

Saturday 3:00pm Costumers of Color Meetup

Saturday 4:30pm Craft and Chat (Saturday)

Sunday 9:00am Hall Costume vs Masquerade Entry—What’s the Difference and Can It Be Both?

Sunday 10:30am Cosplay Parade and Photo Op

Sunday 10:30am Craft and Chat (Sunday)

Sunday 12:00pm Storytelling By Costume

Sunday 1:30pm Everyday Clothing Costumes

Sunday 3:00pm Turning Your Historical Fashions Into SF/F Costumes

Sunday 4:30pm It’s All in the Costume Details

Sunday 6:00pm How To Stay Comfortable In Your Cosplay Clothing

Monday 9:00am Care and Feeding of Costumes

Monday 1:30pm Meetup: Silicon Web Costumers’ Guild

Events

Thursday 12:00pm Concert: Denise Gendron

Thursday 1:00pm Concert: Merav Hoffman

Thursday 2:30pm Concert: Paul Kwinn

Thursday 3:00pm Policarpa: Apocalypse Sur Amerikkka

Thursday 7:30pm Opening Ceremony

Thursday 9:00pm Dublin 2029 Céilí (Featuring Stepwise)

Friday 9:00am Virtual CERN Tour

Friday 9:00am Concert: Henry Lien

Friday 10:30am Concert: Griff the Filker

Friday 12:10pm Concert: John McDaid

Friday 3:00pm The Middle-Earth Ball

Friday 4:00pm ROOT (Running Out Of Time): The Play

Friday 7:30pm The Escape: A Confrontation on Four Scenes

Friday 8:00pm South Side Symphony: Anime Juke Jam

Friday 10:00pm DJ Scalzi Discotheque

Saturday 9:00am Concert: Tim Griffin

Saturday 9:00am Pre-Masquerade Meeting for Contestants

Saturday 10:30am Concert: TJ & Mitchell Burnside Clapp

Saturday 12:00pm Concert: Cecilia Eng

Saturday 1:30pm “The Failure of the Century” (staged reading)

Saturday 3:00pm Concert: The Fallen Stars

Saturday 4:00pm Go Fact Yourself Live—Prady vs. Kowal

Saturday 4:30pm Concert: Andrew Ross & The Possible Side Effects

Saturday 6:00pm Concert: Kendra Tornheim

Saturday 8:00pm The Worldcon Masquerade

Saturday 9:00pm Saturday Night Dance

Sunday 10:00am “Remote (Or Gallyvant’s Finale)” Staged Reading

Sunday 10:30am Concert: Stefan Rudnicki, Alison Belle Bews, and Gabrielle de Cuir

Sunday 12:00pm Concert: Gary Ehrlich

Sunday 12:00pm Post-Masquerade Meeting for Contestants

Sunday 1:30pm Klingon Lifestyles—Live!

Sunday 4:30pm Regency Dance

Sunday 4:30pm The Idiot’s Lantern: A SF/F Sketch Comedy Show

Sunday 8:00pm The 2026 Hugo Awards Ceremony

Sunday 9:00pm Karaoke Night!

Monday 3:00pm Closing Ceremony

Fandom & Fan History

Thursday 12:00pm How to Moderate a Panel

Thursday 12:00pm Fandom as a Found Family

Thursday 12:00pm 20 Years of Worldcon Organizing

Thursday 12:00pm Can We Enjoy the Art of Unethical People? (Virtual)

Thursday 12:00pm The Fan Hugo Categories

Thursday 1:30pm 100 Years Later: The Impact of Amazing Stories Magazine

Thursday 1:30pm Achieving Local Convention Success

Thursday 3:00pm The Earliest Bradbury

Thursday 3:00pm How Does Internet Architecture Shape Fandom Behavior?

Thursday 3:00pm The Rise and Fall of Fandoms

Thursday 4:30pm Book Clubs: Strategies to Create, Run, and Sustain Them

Thursday 4:30pm Do We Honor People Too Late?

Thursday 6:00pm SFF Fandom and Esperanto

Thursday 6:00pm LASFS: Building the World’s Oldest Active SF Club

Thursday 7:30pm The Wrath of Con—First Fandom and the Rise of Worldcon

Friday 9:00am The Ultimate Cosmos: The Fan Experiment That Changed SF

Friday 9:00am Leveling Up Responsibility in Speculative Genres

Friday 9:00am Fans Know Best: Hugo Best Fanzine Finalists

Friday 9:00am Hear Me Out: Hugo Best Fancast Finalists

Friday 9:00am When It’s Time to Stop Convention Work

Friday 9:00am Is Worldcon Finally Becoming A World SF Convention?

Friday 10:00am Blood Drive for the SoCal Blood Bank

Friday 10:30am The 13th Labor of Hercules: Surviving Working on a Worldcon

Friday 12:00pm In Residence: Geri Sullivan

Friday 12:00pm Who Needs Fan History?

Friday 12:00pm SCA Combat Demo—Friday #1

Friday 12:00pm Letters to the Future: Messages to the Fans of 2126

Friday 1:30pm How Authors and Creators Interact With Their Fandoms

Friday 1:30pm Conrunner Horror Stories

Friday 1:30pm Meetup: Aussiecon 1 Members

Friday 3:00pm The Many Faces of LA-area Fan William Rotsler

Friday 3:00pm Leading Ladies: Women in Early Science Fiction and Fandom

Friday 4:30pm Celebrating Friendship: Geri Sullivan GoH Dialog

Friday 4:30pm Defining “Fanfic”: A History

Friday 6:00pm Fanzines as a Means of Self-Expression

Friday 7:30pm The Anti-Fascist Science Fiction Fan Movement of the 1930s

Friday 7:30pm The Cocktail History of Worldcon

Friday 7:30pm Researching and Preserving the Fannish History

Friday 9:00pm Weird And Wild: Furry’s Speculative Mode

Saturday 4:30am Fandom as a Found Family (Virtual)

Saturday 7:30am Memories of the Worldcons Past

Saturday 7:30am Love in Words: Hugo Best Fan Writer Finalists (Virtual)

Saturday 9:00am From Fanzines to Archives: Where SF History Lives

Saturday 9:00am A Conversation with the Ray Bradbury Center

Saturday 9:00am LA Fandom in the War Years: Transformation on the Home Front

Saturday 12:00pm Interplanetary: The First Original SF Board Game

Saturday 12:00pm SCA Combat Demo—Saturday #1

Saturday 12:00pm Dublin 2029 Virtual Party

Saturday 1:30pm Early Fan Poetry: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous

Saturday 1:30pm How I Found Fandom and Why I Stayed (Virtual)

Saturday 3:00pm Sharing LAcon Stories

Saturday 6:00pm 60 Years of the SCA: From Backyard Party to the Known World

Saturday 6:00pm Is the Fannish Convention Model Sustainable?

Saturday 6:00pm Caring for Your Collection(s)

Saturday 6:00pm Fans Finding Hope in Difficult Times

Saturday 7:30pm The Dark Side of Conventioning

Sunday 4:30am Fandom in the Time of Pandemic: What We Got and What We Lost

Sunday 9:00am Los Angeles: A Visual Tour of the Capital of Science Fiction

Sunday 9:00am Interplanetary

Sunday 10:30am Los Angeles and Heinlein

Sunday 10:30am SCA Combat Demo—Sunday #1

Sunday 12:00pm Can We Enjoy the Art of Unethical People?

Sunday 12:00pm Geek Culture Is Mainstream—What Now?

Sunday 12:00pm SCA Combat Demo—Sunday #2

Sunday 12:00pm Virtual Bid Party—Edmonton 2030

Sunday 1:30pm How I Found Fandom and Why I Stayed

Sunday 1:30pm Fan Funds Auction

Sunday 3:00pm Conrunning in a Time of Dystopia

Sunday 4:30pm SCA Combat Demo—Sunday #3

Sunday 6:00pm How the 1946 Pacificon Saved Post-War Worldcons

Sunday 6:00pm What Can We Do to Make Fandom More Accessible For Everyone?

Sunday 6:00pm Celebrating 90 Years of Conventions

Sunday 6:00pm Filk Fandom, or The Story of a Typo

Sunday 6:00pm Otherwise Award Charity Auction (Virtual)

Monday 9:00am Kepner and Tigrina: Pioneering LGBTQ+ Activism in LA Fandom

Monday 9:00am Planning the Fate of Your Geeky Collection After You’re Gone

Monday 10:30am Fan Funds as an Experience

Monday 10:30am Is Fandom Really Egalitarian?

Monday 10:30am Are SFF Clubs Relevant Today?

Monday 12:00pm From Fan to Pro and Back Again

Monday 12:00pm Fannish Views of Technology: Good, Bad, and In-Between

Monday 12:00pm Why Do We Need Fannish Recognition?

Monday 1:30pm From Fanzines to Social Media – How Fans Communicate

Film Festival

Thursday 11:00am Best of Seattle Worldcon Film Festival

Thursday 1:00pm Fantasy Films from Around the World

Thursday 3:00pm An Afternoon of Science Fiction Movies

Thursday 6:00pm Not So Late Night Science Fiction Double Feature

Friday 11:00am Best of the Silicon Valley Science Fiction Short Film Festival

Friday 1:00pm Student Short Films

Friday 3:00pm An Afternoon at the Movies: The Living Tree

Friday 6:00pm Not So Late Night Horror Double Feature

Saturday 11:00am Science Fiction Short films

Saturday 1:00pm Even More Science Fiction Short Films

Saturday 3:00pm Shorts, Shorts, and even more Shorts,

Saturday 5:00pm Surge of Power and other tales

Sunday 11:00am Best of Norwescon’s Speculative Film Festival

Sunday 1:00pm Horror Short Films

Sunday 3:00pm War of the Worlds: Goliath

Sunday 5:00pm WHO-Ligans and other tales

Monday 11:00am Howard Waldrop Films (Produced by George R.R. Martin)

Monday 1:00pm LAcon V Film Festival Winners Block

Gaming & the Business of Games

Thursday 12:00pm Artemis Space Bridge Simulator (Thursday)

Thursday 1:30pm 25 Years of Animating Sci-Fi Characters

Thursday 1:30pm Meetup: Pokemon Go! (Thursday)

Thursday 1:30pm Tabletop Game Design Jam

Thursday 1:30pm Depictions of Science in Board Games

Thursday 3:00pm Shadowrun: Spoiled Rotten

Thursday 4:30pm The Highs and Lows of a Lone-Wolf Videogame Developer

Thursday 4:30pm A History of Tabletop Roleplaying Games in Seven Scandals

Thursday 4:30pm Jackbox Games for Teens

Thursday 4:30pm Beyond D&D: Choosing the Right Ruleset

Thursday 4:30pm Playing Our Favorite Stories (Virtual)

Thursday 6:00pm Collaborative Visualizations

Friday 6:00am Gaming Does Good (Virtual)

Friday 7:30am The Papal Election of 1492/2016

Friday 9:00am Playing in Someone Else’s World

Friday 10:00am Artemis Space Bridge Simulator (Friday)

Friday 10:00am Sir, This is a Harby’s

Friday 10:00am Shadowrun: Santeria

Friday 10:30am Playing to Fail: Interesting Decisions in TTRPGs

Friday 12:00pm Improvisation for the Tabletop Gamer

Friday 12:00pm Worldbuilding for Thousands: What LARP Tells Us About Storytelling, Agency and Romance

Friday 1:00pm ShenaniGoblins

Friday 1:30pm Meetup: Pokemon Go! (Friday)

Friday 1:30pm What’s Hot in Indie Tabletop Role Playing Games? (Virtual)

Friday 3:00pm Um, Actually…The Gameshow

Friday 3:00pm Solarpunk Futures: a Utopian Storytelling Game

Friday 3:00pm Shadowrun: Top Shelf Seattle

Friday 4:30pm What’s Hot in Indie Tabletop Role Playing Games?

Friday 6:00pm Roguelikes: The Art of Repetitive Play in Storytelling

Friday 6:00pm D&D Actual Play at LAcon V!

Friday 6:00pm A Golden Age of Cooperative Board Games

Friday 7:30pm Pub quiz

Friday 8:00pm Learn Modified Hong Kong Mahjong

Friday 9:00pm Just a Minute

Saturday 6:00am Fictional Characters and Geek Therapy (Virtual)

Saturday 9:00am 50 Years of Games Workshop

Saturday 9:00am Worldbuilding Is the Point: Building Universes Through Play

Saturday 10:00am Artemis Space Bridge Simulator (Saturday)

Saturday 10:00am Shadowrun: April 29th, Where Were You?

Saturday 10:00am Here Be Monsters Demo

Saturday 10:30am Getting into Game Writing

Saturday 10:30am Playing in the Apocalypse

Saturday 12:00pm Cocreation and Storytelling at the Table (Virtual)

Saturday 12:00pm LARP, Race, and How to Tell Inclusive Stories

Saturday 1:00pm Murder of Crows

Saturday 1:30pm Critical Success: How Critics Discuss Gaming

Saturday 1:30pm How to Tell Your Own Stories at the Table

Saturday 3:00pm Inconceivable! The Game Show of Nerdery and Nonsense

Saturday 3:00pm The Broken Column

Saturday 3:00pm Shadowrun: Spoiled Rotten

Saturday 3:00pm Beyond D&D: How Do Other Rulesets Enable Play? (Virtual)

Saturday 4:30pm LitRPG and Progression Fantasy

Saturday 6:00pm MadLibs: Anything Goes

Saturday 6:00pm How Video Games Inspire Writers’ Creativity

Saturday 6:00pm Meetup: Video Gamers

Saturday 9:00pm Geektastic Trivia Spectacular

Sunday 12:00am Avatars, Quests, and Extra Lives

Sunday 9:00am Interactive Storytelling: Hugo Best Game Finalists

Sunday 9:00am Bleeding in the Magic Circle

Sunday 9:00am Gamebook Show & Tell

Sunday 10:00am Artemis Space Bridge Simulator (Sunday)

Sunday 10:00am ShenaniGoblins

Sunday 10:30am Shadowrun: Forty Ounces to Freedom

Sunday 12:00pm The Evolution of Social Deduction Games

Sunday 12:00pm Learn American Mahjong

Sunday 12:00pm Decolonizing D&D

Sunday 12:00pm Disability Representation in TTRPGs

Sunday 12:00pm Making Interesting Characters in TTRPGs

Sunday 1:30pm Cocreation and Storytelling at the Table

Sunday 1:30pm Tabletop Game Playtesting Jam

Sunday 1:30pm Depictions of History in Board Games

Sunday 3:00pm Communication Tools in TTRPGs

Sunday 3:00pm Pixieverse: Clash of Clubs!

Sunday 3:00pm Shadowrun: Top Shelf Seattle

Sunday 4:30pm Learn to Play Traditional Card Games

Sunday 6:00pm Beyond D&D: How Do Other Rulesets Enable Play?

Monday 10:00am Artemis Space Bridge Simulator (Monday)

Monday 10:30am The Broken Column

Monday 10:30am Shadowrun: Top Shelf Seattle

Monday 10:30am Aspirational Games (or the Shelf of Shame)

Monday 10:30am Playing Our Favorite Stories

Languages

Thursday 4:30pm Yautja—the language of the movie Predator

Thursday 4:30pm Navajo Emergence Story

Friday 9:00am Latinx Futurisms: The Cal State Fullerton Archive

Friday 6:00pm Indigenous Language Revitalization

Friday 6:00pm Constructed Languages: The Inside Scoop!

Friday 6:00pm Languages and Linguistics in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Friday 6:00pm Languages of Resistance: An Introduction to Lang Belta

Friday 7:30pm Being Latinx and Creative in an English-Speaking Medium

Friday 7:30pm Creating the Na’vi Language for Avatar

Saturday 3:00am Cooking in Esperanto

Saturday 3:00am Aiya! Learn “Hello” and More in Quenya

Saturday 9:00am nuqneH? How to “Greet” Someone In Klingon

Saturday 10:30am Conversation Practice in Klingon

Saturday 12:00pm An Introduction to Diné Bizaad (Navajo Language)

Saturday 1:30pm The Art and Science of Inventing Languages

Saturday 1:30pm Conversation Practice in Navajo

Saturday 3:00pm Tongva 101, An Introduction to Tongva

Saturday 4:30pm An Introduction to the Chumash Language

Saturday 9:00pm Creating Language: A Dialog Between David and Jessie Peterson

Sunday 3:00am A Discussion of the Na’vi Language in the Avatar Movies

Sunday 4:30am Kaltxi! Learn “Hello” and More in Na’vi

Sunday 9:00am Navajo Code Talkers: How They Did It

Sunday 4:30pm Klingon Language Institute

Sunday 4:30pm Languages of Resistance: An Introduction to Ghor

Sunday 6:00pm Indigenous Languages in SFF

Sunday 6:00pm What’s In A Name? Creating Names in SFF

Monday 9:00am Shakespeare in the Original Klingon: An Overview of Translated and Original Fiction

Monday 1:30pm Rytsas! Learn “Hello” and More in High Valyrian and Dothraki

Literature

Thursday 9:00am Nommo Awards 2026: Celebrating African Speculative Fiction

Thursday 9:00am More Than Subtext: Celebrating Queer Characters in SF/F (Virtual)

Thursday 10:30am Justice Systems in SF/F (Virtual)

Thursday 10:30am An Entire World in a Screen: Dilman Dila (Virtual)

Thursday 12:00pm Personifications of Death

Thursday 12:00pm Sleuthing Through History

Thursday 12:00pm The Logistics of Galactic War

Thursday 12:00pm Cannibalism Can Be Fun: In Literature

Thursday 12:00pm Heinlein and the Professionals of Early LA Science Fiction

Thursday 1:30pm A Long Time Ago: Oral Traditions

Thursday 1:30pm 1001 Years Later

Thursday 1:30pm Horror in Space

Thursday 1:30pm Accessing Futures: Disability, Transhumanism, and Utopias

Thursday 1:30pm Faces of the Vampire: Blood and Power

Thursday 1:30pm Climate Future Fiction, Hopepunk, and Solarpunk

Thursday 1:30pm A Long Time Ago: Oral Traditions (Virtual)

Thursday 3:00pm From Shell Shock to Mind-Burn: PTSD in Sci-Fi

Thursday 3:00pm Good Reviews Are Hard to Find

Thursday 3:00pm Fairy Tales and How They Connect Us

Thursday 4:30pm Causality Violations: The Ethics of a Time War

Thursday 4:30pm Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Magical Realism (Virtual)

Thursday 4:30pm Black, Queer, and Speculating in Verse

Thursday 6:00pm The Bi Standard: Respecting Bisexual Identity in Storytelling

Thursday 6:00pm Disabilities Within the Genre

Thursday 6:00pm Horror on Stage

Thursday 6:00pm Body Horror as Symbolism

Thursday 6:00pm We Are Still Here: Indigenous Voices in Speculative Fiction

Thursday 6:00pm Law, Corporations, and Dystopia in SF/F

Thursday 6:00pm Poetry Deathmatch!

Thursday 6:00pm The Black Gothic in America

Thursday 6:00pm Another Sex Scene Already? Pacing Intimacy in Romantasy (Virtual)

Thursday 7:30pm Another Sex Scene Already? Pacing Intimacy in Romantasy

Thursday 9:00pm Parables For New Sowers

Friday 7:30am Labor of Love: Hugo Best Semiprozine Finalists (Virtual)

Friday 7:30am Law, Corporations, and Dystopia in SFF (Virtual)

Friday 7:30am Holy Worms and Techno-Shamans: Luis Barragán (Virtual)

Friday 9:00am Gothic Writing and Worldbuilding

Friday 9:00am It’s the End of the World: Southern California Dystopia

Friday 9:00am Women and Nonbinary Folks in Historical Fantasy

Friday 9:00am The Bible as a Fantasy Novel

Friday 9:00am The Red Army: Leftist Military Science Fiction

Friday 9:00am Science Fiction as a Driver of Scientific Innovation (Virtual)

Friday 10:30am Realm Breaker: From YA to Adult with Victoria Aveyard

Friday 10:30am Science Fiction and The Economics of Technology

Friday 10:30am Bring Me the Head of Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Friday 10:30am A Deeper Magic: Demisexuality and Asexuality in Fantasy

Friday 10:30am Respectful Retellings

Friday 10:30am Subverting Expectations: Hugo Best Novella Finalists

Friday 10:30am Try a Sonnet!

Friday 12:00pm Polycrisis: Living Through Many Challenges At Once

Friday 12:00pm Cozy Fantasy

Friday 12:00pm Barbara Hambly: A Life in Fantasy, Mystery, and History

Friday 12:00pm The Stories That Just Keep Giving: Hugo Best Series Finalists

Friday 12:00pm Writing Between Worlds: Diasporic Influence in SFF

Friday 12:00pm Hardboiled Science Fiction

Friday 12:00pm Found Family: Who We Call Home

Friday 12:00pm Stet or Cut? The Invisible Craft of the Editor

Friday 12:00pm A ___ of ___ and ___: Trends in Romantasy

Friday 12:00pm Truly Inhuman Characters

Friday 12:00pm Anything You Can Do: Women and Non-Binary Warriors

Friday 12:00pm Moananuiākea: The Influence of the Pacific on SFF

Friday 12:00pm Translation Tightrope

Friday 12:00pm A Golden Age of Speculative Criticism (Virtual)

Friday 12:00pm Gods Did WHAT?! Creation Stories from Around the World (Virtual)

Friday 12:00pm The Awkward Length: Hugo Best Novelette Finalists

Friday 1:30pm Anti-Genre Round Table

Friday 1:30pm Morally Gray in a Pitch Black World: Dark Romantasy

Friday 1:30pm Jewish Horror

Friday 1:30pm Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Assoc (SFWA) Fireside Chat

Friday 1:30pm Epidemics and Pandemics: Truth vs. Fiction

Friday 1:30pm Acceptable Casualties: Military SFF’s Empathy Deficit

Friday 1:30pm Ruthless Women: Fierce Women in SFF

Friday 1:30pm Populating Fantasy: More Than Kings, Knights, and Smallfolk (Virtual)

Friday 1:30pm For the Youth! Lodestar Award Finalists

Friday 3:00pm The Scoville Scale of Spicy Books

Friday 3:00pm The Global Gothic

Friday 3:00pm Fashion and Frippery in Fantasy

Friday 3:00pm Time: Do People, Animals & Aliens Experience it Differently?

Friday 3:00pm The Value of the Negative Review

Friday 3:00pm Collective Workers’ Rights Actions in Speculative Fiction

Friday 3:00pm Latinx Worlds of Resistance

Friday 3:00pm On Deck: Inclusive Perspectives from SF/F on the Seven Seas

Friday 3:00pm Meetup: Parasol Protectorate Fans

Friday 3:00pm The Value of the Negative Review (Virtual)

Friday 3:00pm In Space, No One Can Hear You Laugh: Humor in Sci-fi (Virtual)

Friday 4:30pm Uh-oh, Eye Contact: Neurodiversity in Science Fiction

Friday 4:30pm Populating Fantasy: More Than Kings, Knights, and Smallfolk

Friday 4:30pm Tasty Mortals: History of Vampires in Fiction

Friday 4:30pm Join the Dark Side

Friday 4:30pm What Science Fiction Gets Wrong about my Profession

Friday 4:30pm Ableism and Horror: A Match Made in Hell

Friday 4:30pm Mycology in Spec Fic: Separating Fact From Fiction

Friday 4:30pm ████████ : Writing Through Censorship

Friday 4:30pm Mechs and Balances: A Philosophy of Giant Robots

Friday 4:30pm Queer and Cozy: Comfort in Queer SFF Narratives

Friday 4:30pm Inventing Tomorrow: Futurism In Science Fiction

Friday 4:30pm Wait, How Many Arms Does That Make? Writing Sex Accurately (Virtual)

Friday 4:30pm Speculating on a Crime: Murder Mystery in Spec-fic (Virtual)

Friday 6:00pm Werewolf Torts And Undead Tax Liabilities

Friday 6:00pm Happily Ever After: New Takes on Romance

Friday 6:00pm Recital: Best Poem Finalists

Friday 6:00pm Womanhood in the Speculative

Friday 6:00pm Haiku & Then Some: Writing SciFiKu and HorrorKu

Friday 7:30pm Isolation in Horror

Friday 7:30pm When Yearning Isn’t Enough: Open Door Scenes in Romantasy

Friday 7:30pm In Space, No One Can Hear You Laugh: Humor in Sci-fi

Friday 7:30pm Justice Systems in SF/F

Friday 7:30pm Rewriting History — The Art and Ethics of Alternate Timelines

Friday 7:30pm Reimagining the Dragon: Fantasy Worlds of East and SE Asia

Friday 9:00pm High Sticking: Romance on the Ice

Saturday 3:00am Where to Start? Researching History for Writing (Virtual)

Saturday 4:30am Heart of the City: Asian Urban SFF (Virtual)

Saturday 9:00am Vampires Never Die

Saturday 9:00am Story Alchemy: South Asian Speculative Fiction

Saturday 9:00am Midichlorians and Quantum Fields: Magic in Science Fiction

Saturday 9:00am Older Women in SF and Fantasy

Saturday 9:00am Working with an Editor (Virtual)

Saturday 10:30am Dark Academia: More Than the Aesthetic

Saturday 10:30am Roots on the Page: Writing Shaped by Heritage

Saturday 10:30am Gods Did WHAT?! Creation Stories from Around the World

Saturday 10:30am Science Fiction as a Driver of Scientific Innovation

Saturday 10:30am Critiquing the Critics

Saturday 10:30am The Internet of Horrors

Saturday 10:30am Reading Is Political: SFF as Political Conversation

Saturday 10:30am The Future of Libraries

Saturday 10:30am From Cavendish to Shelley: Historical Female SF Authors

Saturday 12:00pm Chapbook: The Poetry Mixtape

Saturday 12:00pm Anarchy in Fantasy Worlds

Saturday 12:00pm Authoritarianism in Fantasy Worlds

Saturday 12:00pm Experience Required: The Mature Main Character

Saturday 12:00pm Magic and Politics

Saturday 12:00pm Counting Lines: Hugo Best Poem Finalists

Saturday 12:00pm Queer Fantasy

Saturday 12:00pm Love in Color: Romantasy as Healing for Black Bodies

Saturday 1:30pm Rue and Sage: Discovering Black and Indigenous Horror

Saturday 1:30pm Where to Start? Researching History for Writing

Saturday 1:30pm We Get the Job Done: Immigrant Perspectives

Saturday 1:30pm Working with an Editor

Saturday 1:30pm Oh the Horror: Horror from Diverse Perspectives

Saturday 3:00pm Where No Man Has Gone Before: Sci-fi and Gender Exploration

Saturday 3:00pm Making Fiction Planets Feel Real; Getting the Science Right!

Saturday 3:00pm Fantasy Found Families

Saturday 3:00pm Carrying the Torch During Times of Transition

Saturday 3:00pm Swab the Decks! Historically Accurate Pirates

Saturday 3:00pm Heart of the City: Asian Urban SF/F

Saturday 3:00pm The Laws of Robotics and Other Ways AI Might Learn from SF

Saturday 3:00pm Muad’Dib Says Fight: Religious Wars in Speculative Fiction

Saturday 3:00pm Fear and Lust in Las Vegas: Horror Romance

Saturday 3:00pm Foundational Fantasy You Should Read

Saturday 3:00pm Interstellar Flight Press Presents Infinite Branches

Saturday 4:30pm Horror Writing as Resistance

Saturday 4:30pm Lethal Ladies: Monstrous Women in SFF

Saturday 4:30pm Special Guest Interview: Terese Mason Pierre

Saturday 4:30pm What Makes a Poem Award Worthy

Saturday 4:30pm You Want to Put That Where? Intimacy in Speculative Fiction

Saturday 4:30pm What You See is What You Write

Saturday 4:30pm Fantastical Librarians and Their Libraries

Saturday 4:30pm Filing Off the Serial Numbers

Saturday 4:30pm Global Voices in an English-Language Market

Saturday 4:30pm Killer Robots and Rogue Computers in SF

Saturday 4:30pm Crossing Genres: Latin American and Latinx Speculative Fiction

Saturday 4:30pm Teens Know What They Want: Hear from Teens on YA Topics

Saturday 4:30pm Defying Reality: Supernatural Romance

Saturday 4:30pm Roots on the Page: Writing Shaped by Heritage (Virtual)

Saturday 6:00pm Rare Fantastical Creatures and Where to Find Them

Saturday 6:00pm New on the Scene: Astounding Award Finalists

Saturday 6:00pm The Art and Science of Inventing Mythologies

Saturday 6:00pm Women Who Built the Genre (Before Anyone Noticed)

Saturday 6:00pm Global & Regional Horror: Monsters from Different Cultures

Saturday 6:00pm Stars on their Wrists: Queering History

Saturday 6:00pm Yes, Sir! BDSM, Consent, & Authority in Speculative Fiction

Saturday 6:00pm What the heck is Military Science Fiction anyhow?

Saturday 6:00pm West African Myth And Magic in Modern Fantasy

Saturday 6:00pm Writing Fantasy in Real Worlds

Saturday 7:30pm There Will Be Class War

Saturday 7:30pm Speculative Poetry 101 & 201

Saturday 7:30pm Villain for You, Never to You: Villains as Romantic Leads

Sunday 6:00am Norse Myth Research, or Why We’ve Been Wrong About Vikings

Sunday 6:00am Critiquing the Critics (Virtual)

Sunday 7:30am Lady Knights and Sword Lesbians (Virtual)

Sunday 7:30am Queer Fantasy (Virtual)

Sunday 9:00am We Need More ______! Gaps in Romantasy

Sunday 9:00am Creating Believable Ecology: Getting Fantastic Worlds Right

Sunday 9:00am Beyond the Gender Binary: Gender Around the World

Sunday 9:00am Hades and Persephone

Sunday 9:00am Snuggle up to Cozy SF/F

Sunday 9:00am The World’s on Fire: Navigating Real Climate Catastrophes

Sunday 9:00am How Hard Is Too Hard? A Mohs Scale for Sci-Fi “Hardness” (Virtual)

Sunday 10:30am Young Adult Dark Academia: A Syllabus

Sunday 10:30am Luddism and Science Fiction

Sunday 10:30am Fables in Space: Spaceships with Moral Lessons

Sunday 10:30am Were Romance? There Romance! Shapeshifters in Romantasy

Sunday 10:30am Golden Idols: The Evolution of Religion

Sunday 10:30am Bless Your Heart: Middle Aged Women as Epic Adventurers

Sunday 10:30am Redefining Strength: Asian Heroines Beyond the Stereotypes

Sunday 12:00pm Setting the Stakes High: Hugo Best Novel

Sunday 12:00pm How to Provide an Excellent Critique

Sunday 12:00pm From Poetry Writer to Guest Editor: Taking the Big Leap!

Sunday 12:00pm Afro-Cosmicism: Afrofuturism and Cosmic Horror

Sunday 12:00pm Do It for the Plot: Sapphic Stories in SFF

Sunday 12:00pm Queerness in the Ruins: LGBTQ+ Identity in Dystopian Worlds (Virtual)

Sunday 12:00pm Virtual Table Talk: Ruth Frances Long / Jessica Thorne

Sunday 1:30pm Choosing Your Paranormal Creature

Sunday 1:30pm Don’t Pigeonhole Me: Writing From a Minority Perspective

Sunday 1:30pm From Atonement to Aftermath: When Redemption Arcs Fail

Sunday 1:30pm Stock-Holmes Syndrome: The Great Detective

Sunday 1:30pm The Short Arc: Hugo Best Short Story Finalists

Sunday 3:00pm Lioness Rampant: Tamora Pierce 40 Years On

Sunday 3:00pm Praying in Space: Religions of the Future

Sunday 3:00pm Big Top Nightmares: Dark Carnivals

Sunday 3:00pm Weird Tales Of Appalachia

Sunday 3:00pm Pantheons Around the World

Sunday 3:00pm Dragons, Dragons, Everywhere!

Sunday 3:00pm Eldritch Horror as a Nuclear Metaphor

Sunday 3:00pm The World State: A Big Idea in the Legacy of Science Fiction

Sunday 3:00pm Diverse Relationships in Romantasy

Sunday 3:00pm How to Provide an Excellent Critique (Virtual)

Sunday 4:30pm Wyvern Rustling: Weird Westerns

Sunday 4:30pm Meet Debut Authors of 2026! 2nd Edition

Sunday 4:30pm The Ancients in Sci-fi: Archaeology and Anthropology in Space

Sunday 4:30pm When The Fighting Stops

Sunday 4:30pm H.G. Wells 80 Years On

Sunday 4:30pm Modern Mythology in the Age of AI

Sunday 4:30pm Seiun Awards / SF in Japan

Sunday 4:30pm Hard and Soft Magic Systems (Virtual)

Sunday 6:00pm Dragons, Magic, and Somehow Still Sexism?

Sunday 6:00pm Fracturing Fairy Tales

Sunday 6:00pm Bites and Bloodstains: Vampires in Romantasy

Sunday 6:00pm Unity Says Hi: Alternative Cognition in SciFi

Sunday 6:00pm Alternate Histories from Global Perspectives (Virtual)

Sunday 7:30pm What Rages Beneath: SFF From Singapore

Monday 9:00am Neurodivergence in Fantasy

Monday 9:00am Alternative Scientific History in Science Fiction

Monday 9:00am Swords and Slow Burns: Closed Door Romantasy

Monday 9:00am Reading Is Political: SFF as Political Conversation (Virtual)

Monday 10:30am Murderous Dragons: Fantasy Mystery

Monday 10:30am Where my Gargoyles At? Giving Sidekicks Center Stage

Monday 10:30am From Storytelling to Spaceflight and Back Again

Monday 10:30am Battle Cattle: Animals In Military Science Fiction

Monday 10:30am Still More Monstrous: Monsters And the Transgressive Body

Monday 10:30am Ships and Cities with Attitude: Place as Character

Monday 10:30am Bless Your Heart: Middle Aged Women as Epic Adventurers (Virtual)

Monday 12:00pm Love Freely: Romantasy as Resistance

Monday 12:00pm Punk Me Up! Cyber, Steam, and Other Punks

Monday 12:00pm Trauma vs Entertainment

Monday 12:00pm But Why Not Radial Symmetry? Evolution in Science Fiction

Monday 12:00pm Near Future Warfare: Robots, AI, and Space Lasers!

Monday 12:00pm C.L. Moore: The Midwest’s Queen of Science Fiction

Monday 1:30pm Sidewise Awards / But What if the Other Side Won? Alternate Histories

Monday 1:30pm Becoming the Crone

Monday 1:30pm Still More Monstrous: Monsters And the Transgressive Body (Virtual)

Maker

Thursday 3:00pm Balloon Animal Sculpting Workshop (Thursday)

Thursday 4:30pm Fancy Hair Braids Workshop (Thursday)

Friday 1:30pm Getting Started With Microcontrollers

Friday 1:30pm Balloon Animal Sculpting Workshop (Friday)

Friday 3:00pm Crystal Wash

Friday 4:30pm Fancy Hair Braids Workshop (Friday)

Friday 6:00pm Ask a Maker

Saturday 10:30am Shibori Stitch Resist

Saturday 10:30am Fanbinding: Book-Binding for Fanfic

Saturday 12:00pm Adding Lighting to Your Props and Costumes

Saturday 1:30pm Balloon Animal Sculpting Workshop (Saturday)

Saturday 3:00pm Easy Tie-Dye Techniques

Saturday 4:30pm Fancy Hair Braids Workshop (Saturday)

Sunday 12:00pm Shibori Binding Techniques

Sunday 3:00pm What Happens When I?

Sunday 3:00pm Fancy Hair Braids Workshop (Sunday)

Media

Thursday 12:00pm Contagion and COVID

Thursday 12:00pm The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of 1976 Movies

Thursday 12:00pm The Rediscovery of Physical Media

Thursday 12:00pm Star Wars Memories

Thursday 1:30pm Babylon 5’s Revolution: Serialized Storytelling Before Peak TV

Thursday 3:00pm Doctor Who at the Crossroads

Thursday 3:00pm A Satisfying Ending

Thursday 3:00pm MAYA Narrative Universe

Thursday 4:30pm The Legacy of Tolkien & Le Guin Today

Thursday 6:00pm Finding One’s Own Sanctuary Moon: Inside Murderbot’s Mind

Thursday 6:00pm Geek Out About: SF/F Musicals

Thursday 7:30pm SPACE COMMAND: The Premiere!

Friday 9:00am The SFF of Mel Brooks

Friday 10:30am 1966 Time Capsule: What Made Star Trek Ahead of its Time?

Friday 10:30am Puppetry for Storytelling

Friday 10:30am Geek Out About: The Expanse

Friday 12:00pm A Tour of ‘The Industry’

Friday 1:30pm Star Trek Is 60!

Friday 1:30pm A Traveler’s Guide Through the Whoniverse

Friday 1:30pm Geek Out About: K-Pop Demon Hunters

Friday 3:00pm Geek Out About: A Song of Ice and Fire

Friday 4:30pm Can We Still Build Star Trek’s Utopian Society?

Friday 4:30pm Low and No-Budget Film Making

Friday 4:30pm Meetup: Podcasters

Friday 6:00pm Guillermo del Toro’s 2025 Frankenstein film

Friday 7:30pm Outsider Representation in Classic Films

Friday 9:00pm How Xena Changed the World

Saturday 6:00am Geek Out About: New Star Trek! (Virtual)

Saturday 9:00am Get Started as a YouTube Creator

Saturday 9:00am THE STOOGE Screening and Q & A

Saturday 9:00am The Future of Star Wars on Television

Saturday 9:00am Writing “The Hills of Tanchico”

Saturday 12:00pm Hollywood and AI: How Is AI Being Used in the Film Industry?

Saturday 12:00pm Interview: Inua Ellems by Michael Damian Thomas

Saturday 1:30pm Audiobooks 101: The Process for Indie Authors and Rights Holders

Saturday 3:00pm From Deep Space to Alternate Histories: In Conversation with Ronald D. Moore

Saturday 3:00pm Cinematic Storytelling

Saturday 4:30pm Welcome to Batuu: Visiting Galaxy’s Edge

Saturday 6:00pm Evolution of Science Fiction Soundtracks (Virtual)

Saturday 7:30pm Futurama to Indie Sci-Fi: Launching Kapknap Animation

Saturday 7:30pm THE SUMMER MACHINE: Viewing / Discussion

Saturday 7:30pm The Final Girl and Beyond: Gender, Power, & Tropes in Horror

Sunday 9:00am Immersive Experiences

Sunday 10:30am ClockWerx: A Science Fiction Web Series

Sunday 12:00pm SF Films of the ’50s: A Look Back

Sunday 3:00pm Oh No, It’s a TV Trope!

Sunday 3:00pm Tell Me a Story Every Week, and Make it Good

Sunday 3:00pm Geek Out About: New Star Trek!

Sunday 4:30pm Digital Storage Use in Video Production and Movies

Sunday 4:30pm Disaster Movies: A Cathartic Reflection of Our Times

Sunday 4:30pm Future Attractions: Media Coming in 2027

Monday 6:00am Nostalgia: I Just Can’t Quit You (Virtual)

Monday 10:30am SPACE COMMAND: The Premiere! (Encore Presentation)

Monday 12:00pm Storytelling in the Age of Franchise: Mechanics for Making a Hit Franchise

Monday 12:00pm Star Wars (Mostly) Original Slideshow at Big Mac in 1976

Monday 12:00pm Music Videos Telling SFFH Stories

Monday 12:00pm Geek Out About: Doctor Who

Meetups

Thursday 10:00am Convention Tour—Thursday Morning

Thursday 12:00pm Meetup: Fans of Cats and Kittens

Thursday 1:30pm Meetup: Gender Diverse Creators for Gender Diverse Creators

Thursday 3:00pm Barbara Hambly’s Birthday Tea Party

Thursday 3:00pm Meetup: Hispanic and Latine Creators for Hispanic and Latine Creators

Thursday 4:30pm Feedback Session—Thursday

Thursday 4:30pm Meetup: Jewish Genre Fans

Thursday 6:00pm Meetup: Asian Creators for Asian Creators

Thursday 7:30pm Meetup: LGBTQIA+

Thursday 9:00pm The Oasis—Thursday

Thursday 9:00pm Meetup & Ritual: Pagan Genre Fans

Friday 12:00am Virtual Feedback Session One

Friday 9:00am Book Launch: R.P. Singletary

Friday 10:30am Indie Author Meetup and Book Exchange

Friday 12:00pm Meetup: Atheist Genre Fans

Friday 1:30pm Feedback Session—Friday

Friday 3:00pm Meetup: Creators with Disabilities for Creators with Disabilities

Friday 4:30pm Meetup: Black Creators for Black Creators

Friday 4:30pm Virtual Feedback Session Two

Friday 6:00pm Meetup: Neurodiverse Creators for Neurodiverse Creators

Friday 7:30pm Shabbat Services

Friday 7:30pm Book Launch: Shiraki Press

Friday 7:30pm Memorial Panel for Guy H. Lillian III

Friday 7:30pm Meetup: Goths

Friday 9:00pm Book Launch: The Fabulist – Nick Mamatas, Bruce McAllister, and Michael J. DeLuca

Friday 9:00pm The Oasis—Friday

Saturday 9:00am T-Shirt Swap Drop Off

Saturday 10:30am T-Shirt Swap!

Saturday 10:30am Book Launch: Robert J. Sawyer

Saturday 10:30am Meetup: Christian Genre Fans

Saturday 10:30am Meetup: Fans of SFF Theater

Saturday 12:00pm Meetup: Trans and Nonbinary

Saturday 12:00pm Meetup: Corvid Fans

Saturday 1:30pm Feedback Session—Saturday

Saturday 1:30pm Meetup: ASFA Members

Saturday 7:30pm Meetup: Indigenous Creators for Indigenous Creators

Saturday 9:00pm The Oasis—Saturday

Sunday 9:00am Christian Public Religious Observance

Sunday 9:30am Past Worldcon Chair Photo

Sunday 10:30am Meetup: Pacific Islander Creators for Pacific Islander Creators

Sunday 1:30pm Feedback Session—Sunday

Sunday 1:30pm Meetup: JPL / NASA

Sunday 1:30pm Meetup: Muslim Genre Fans

Sunday 3:00pm Meetup: Black, Latinx, AANHPI, BIPOC

Sunday 3:00pm Muses & Menace Meetup: Women Creators for Women Creators

Sunday 3:00pm Meetup: Punk

Sunday 3:00pm Meetup: Elsie the Talking Cat (Virtual)

Sunday 9:00pm The Oasis—Sunday

Monday 10:30am Virtual Feedback Session Three

Monday 12:00pm Meetup: Elsie the Talking Cat

Monday 12:00pm Meetup: People With Disabilities

Middle Grade Literature

Saturday 6:00pm Magic School is in Session: Representation in YA and MG Fantasy

Modern Society

Thursday 1:30pm An Introvert’s Guide to Surviving Conventions (Virtual)

Thursday 3:00pm Authorial Bias and Worldbuilding

Thursday 3:00pm Living with a Writer/Artist

Thursday 4:30pm Neurodiverse Approaches to the Art of Stories

Thursday 6:00pm Food for Thought: Worldbuilding Through the Delectable

Friday 9:00am Archiving the Future: Preserving African Speculative Fiction

Friday 10:30am Narratives for a Hopeful Future

Friday 1:30pm Authors in Defiance: Writing as Resistance

Friday 1:30pm Social Classes in SF and Fantasy

Friday 1:30pm Cultural Appreciation or Appropriation

Friday 3:00pm Stories For All: Confronting the Reality of Book Bans

Saturday 9:00am As You Are: Identity Acceptance in SFF

Saturday 9:00am The Future of Work in the Age of AI: Applying African Speculative Fiction

Saturday 6:00pm Youthful Hauntings: A Journey through YA and YR Gothic

Sunday 7:30am De-Risking Policy through Fiction: A Workshop from Applied African SF

Sunday 12:00pm SOS: Save Our Science

Sunday 1:30pm Let’s Get Physical: Positive Body Representation in SFF

Sunday 1:30pm Race & Robotics: A Not-so-brief History & Not-so-happy Ending

Sunday 1:30pm Queer Normative and Gender Expansive Worldbuilding in SF/F

Sunday 3:00pm Inspiration Not Appropriation (Virtual)

Monday 12:00pm Non-Traditional Pronouns in SF and Fantasy

Monday 12:00pm The Writer’s Life: Authors with Disabilities

Movement

Friday 9:00am Morning Tai Chi—Friday

Friday 10:30am Introduction to Muay Thai

Saturday 3:00pm SCA Combat Demo—Saturday #2

Sunday 9:00am Morning Tai Chi—Sunday

Music & Filk

Thursday 12:00pm Classical Music and SFF

Thursday 3:00pm Concept Albums

Thursday 4:30pm Exomusicology: Creating the Music of Alien Civilizations

Thursday 6:00pm But It’s Not Mine: Cover Song and Parody Legalities

Thursday 9:00pm Thursday Open Filk

Friday 9:00am Songwriting 101

Friday 9:00pm Friday Open Filk

Saturday 7:30pm Theme Filk: My First Filk Song

Saturday 9:00pm Saturday Open Filk

Sunday 10:30am Singing in Rounds to Create Vocal Harmony

Sunday 3:00pm Stagecraft For Musicians

Sunday 7:30pm Theme Filk: A-B-C (Aliens, Beasts, and Creatures)

Sunday 9:00pm Sunday Open Filk

Monday 9:00am The Magic of “I Want” Songs: Musical Character Motivation

Monday 10:30am Creating a Story in Song

Monday 4:30pm Theme Filk: Short and Sweet!

Monday 6:00pm Monday Frazzled Fox Filk

Podcasting

Thursday 3:00pm Live Podcast: LangTime Studio

Thursday 4:30pm Escape Artists Foundation: 20 Years of Podcasting

Thursday 6:00pm Live Podcast: Monster v. Monster

Friday 10:30am Live Podcast: Escape Pod

Friday 1:30pm Live Podcast: Writing Excuses

Friday 3:00pm Being Social: Bookstagram, BookTok, BookTube, Podcasting

Friday 6:00pm Ditch Diggers: What Even Is a Toastmaster?

Saturday 6:00am Live Podcast: Strange Horizons

Saturday 12:00pm Many Mics, One Stage: Hugo Fancast Mash‑Up

Saturday 1:30pm Live Podcast: The Incomplete Worldcon Podcast

Saturday 6:00pm Live Podcast: Worldbuilding for Masochists

Sunday 9:00am Words Without Pictures

Sunday 1:30pm Video Killed the Podcast Star

Sunday 6:00pm Live Podcast: Small Publishing in a Big Universe

Monday 12:00pm Live Podcast: The Skiffy and Fanty Show- Strange New Selves!

Poetry

Friday 3:00pm Grey Matters: Writing Poems that Nuance Heroes and Villains

Saturday 10:30am What Editors Look For In Speculative Poetry

Sunday 4:30pm This Lore Runs Deep: Writing Serial Poems

Monday 9:00am Poetry as World Building: Poems as Foundations for Gaming and Beyond

Monday 12:00pm Gilgamesh, Odyssey, and Janelle Monae’s Chase Suite

Readings

Thursday 12:00pm Martha Wells

Thursday 12:00pm E.G. Condé

Thursday 12:20pm Christopher Caldwell

Thursday 12:30pm Mary Robinette Kowal

Thursday 12:40pm Caitlin Rozakis

Thursday 1:30pm Henry Lien

Thursday 1:30pm Virtual Andrew Rubin

Thursday 1:50pm Alasdair Stuart

Thursday 2:00pm Virtual Wole Talabi

Thursday 3:00pm Walter Jon Williams

Thursday 3:20pm Daryl Gregory

Thursday 3:40pm Robert J. Sawyer

Thursday 4:30pm Micaiah Johnson

Thursday 4:50pm Carrie Vaughn

Thursday 5:10pm Foz Meadows

Thursday 6:00pm Sally Wiener Grotta

Thursday 6:20pm Mur Lafferty

Thursday 6:40pm Scott Edelman

Thursday 7:30pm Anand Gandhi

Thursday 7:50pm Heather Rose Jones

Thursday 8:10pm Alex Pheby

Thursday 9:00pm Elizabeth Sandifer

Thursday 9:20pm T.T. Gibran

Thursday 9:40pm Tess Tanenbaum

Thursday 10:30pm Virtual Eboni J. Dunbar

Thursday 11:10pm Virtual Chelsea Sutton

Friday 6:00am Virtual Caroline Hardaker

Friday 6:40am Virtual Joan Slonczewski

Friday 7:30am Virtual A. L. Kaplan

Friday 8:10am Virtual Cristián Londoño-Proaño

Friday 9:00am Angela Liu

Friday 9:20am Jennifer Brozek

Friday 9:40am David Gerrold

Friday 10:30am Natania Barron

Friday 10:50am Benjamin Rosenbaum

Friday 11:10am Sarah Langan

Friday 12:00pm J.R. Dawson

Friday 12:00pm Virtual Inua Ellams

Friday 12:20pm Leigh Bardugo

Friday 12:40pm Chris Campbell

Friday 12:40pm Virtual Effie Seiberg

Friday 1:30pm Scott Lynch

Friday 1:30pm Virtual Akua Lezli Hope

Friday 2:00pm Elizabeth Bear

Friday 2:10pm Virtual A. T. Greenblatt

Friday 3:00pm Margaret Owen

Friday 3:20pm Kamilah Cole

Friday 3:40pm Isabel J. Kim

Friday 4:30pm Ai Jiang

Friday 4:30pm Virtual Mona Tewari

Friday 4:50pm Cecilia Tan

Friday 5:10pm Palmer Pickering

Friday 5:10pm Virtual Joyce Chng

Friday 6:00pm Matt Youngmark

Friday 6:00pm Virtual Yasser M Bahjatt

Friday 6:20pm Fran Wilde

Friday 6:40pm Justin C. Key

Friday 6:40pm Virtual Rachel Unger

Friday 7:30pm Somto Ihezue

Friday 7:30pm Stefan Rudnicki

Friday 7:30pm Virtual Tabitha Jorgensen

Friday 7:50pm Kylie Lee Baker

Friday 8:10pm Brandon O’Brien

Friday 8:10pm Rosemary Claire Smith

Friday 9:00pm Thomas Ha

Friday 9:20pm Jonathan Brazee

Friday 9:40pm Emily Iris Paxman

Saturday 1:30am Virtual Solomon Uhiara

Saturday 5:10am Virtual Jaymee Goh

Saturday 6:00am Virtual Sonia Sulaiman

Saturday 6:40am Virtual Noor Tannir

Saturday 7:30am Virtual Billie Host

Saturday 8:00am Virtual Ada Palmer

Saturday 9:00am Katie Wu

Saturday 9:00am Virtual Trip Galey

Saturday 9:20am Felicia Martinez

Saturday 9:40am Steven Barnes

Saturday 9:40am Virtual Ruth Frances Long / Jessica Thorne

Saturday 10:30am Tara Campbell

Saturday 10:30am Virtual Laura Anne Gilman

Saturday 10:50am Fonda Lee

Saturday 11:10am Brent Scarcliff

Saturday 11:10am Virtual MK Hardy

Saturday 12:00pm William Ledbetter

Saturday 12:00pm Virtual Dr. JA Grier

Saturday 12:20pm Tia Tashiro

Saturday 12:40pm Steven Popkes

Saturday 12:40pm Virtual Edward Carmien

Saturday 1:30pm Sarah Rees Brennan

Saturday 1:30pm Amal El-Mohtar

Saturday 2:00pm Joe Haldeman

Saturday 2:00pm Max Gladstone

Saturday 3:00pm Holly Black

Saturday 3:00pm Weyodi OldBear

Saturday 3:00pm Virtual Gregory A. Wilson

Saturday 3:30pm Arkady Martine

Saturday 3:30pm Shane Hawk

Saturday 3:40pm Virtual Maquel A. Jacob

Saturday 4:30pm Catherynne M. Valente

Saturday 4:30pm Kids Tracey Baptiste

Saturday 4:30pm Tananarive Due

Saturday 4:30pm Virtual Naomi Novik

Saturday 5:00pm Melinda M Snodgrass

Saturday 5:10pm Virtual isaac dwyer

Saturday 6:00pm Mari Ness

Saturday 6:20pm Veronica G. Henry

Saturday 6:40pm Darcie Little Badger

Saturday 7:30pm Leanne Schwartz

Saturday 7:30pm Bruce McAllister

Saturday 7:50pm Carolyn Ives Gilman

Saturday 8:10pm Maria Alexander

Saturday 8:10pm Gideon Marcus

Saturday 9:00pm Theodora Goss

Saturday 9:20pm Brian U. Garrison

Sunday 6:00am Virtual Ng Yi-Sheng

Sunday 6:40am Virtual Angela Acosta

Sunday 7:30am Virtual Phoebe Barton

Sunday 9:00am Alex Shvartsman

Sunday 9:00am Virtual Caitlin Starling

Sunday 9:20am Andrea Blythe

Sunday 9:40am Molly O’Neill

Sunday 9:40am Virtual Xan van Rooyen

Sunday 10:30am INEZ RAY

Sunday 10:30am Virtual Van Hoang

Sunday 10:50am Rajeev Prasad

Sunday 11:10am Tamika Thompson

Sunday 11:10am Virtual Marie Parks

Sunday 12:00pm Brenda Cooper

Sunday 12:20pm H.H. Pak

Sunday 12:40pm Trang Thanh Tran

Sunday 1:30pm Kate Elliott

Sunday 1:30pm Virtual Sarah Pinsker

Sunday 1:50pm Jennifer Hudak

Sunday 2:10pm David D. Levine

Sunday 3:00pm Marie Brennan, Alyc Helms

Sunday 3:00pm Sophie Burnham

Sunday 3:20pm Lavanya Lakshminarayan

Sunday 3:30pm Robin Hobb

Sunday 3:40pm Shay Kauwe

Sunday 4:30pm David Brin

Sunday 4:30pm Priya Show

Sunday 4:50pm Gail Carriger

Sunday 5:10pm Mary Turzillo

Sunday 6:00pm Christine Taylor-Butler

Sunday 6:00pm Virtual Eliane Boey

Sunday 6:20pm Brenda W Clough

Sunday 6:40pm Jean-Paul L. Garnier

Sunday 6:40pm Virtual S. Qiouyi Lu

Sunday 7:30pm Kemi

Sunday 7:50pm Erin Brown

Sunday 9:00pm Virtual Miguel O. Mitchell

Sunday 10:30pm Virtual Cameron Reed

Monday 6:40am Virtual S. M. Hallow

Monday 7:30am Virtual Rachel Hartman

Monday 8:10am Virtual Reuben “Tihi” Hayslett

Monday 9:00am Virtual Liz Argall

Monday 9:20am Jeremy Szal

Monday 9:40am Andrea Stewart

Monday 9:40am Virtual Bert-Oliver Boehmer

Monday 10:30am Broad Universe Rapid-Fire Come Hear Broads Read!

Monday 10:30am Diana Burbano

Monday 10:30am Virtual Vanessa MacLaren-Wray

Monday 10:50am John Chu

Monday 11:10am Gabrielle de Cuir

Monday 11:10am Virtual Zain Memon

Monday 12:00pm John Scalzi

Monday 12:00pm Annalee Newitz

Monday 12:30pm T. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon)

Monday 12:30pm Charlie Jane Anders

Monday 1:30pm Terese Mason Pierre

Monday 1:30pm Anuja Varghese

Monday 1:50pm James Patrick Kelly

Monday 2:00pm Barbara Hambly

STEM

Thursday 12:00pm What’s Next for the Exploration of Mars?

Thursday 12:00pm Free Will: Well? Do We Have Free Will or Not?

Thursday 12:00pm Poisonous Plants: When “Natural” is not very good for you

Thursday 1:30pm Ethics of Space Research and Exploration

Thursday 1:30pm Adamantium: From Myth to Material

Thursday 1:30pm Surveillance Tech: Who Can Watch You? Who Can You Watch?

Thursday 1:30pm Inventing the Future: Designing Moonshots

Thursday 3:00pm Vera Rubin Observatory: Tracking Changes in the Sky

Thursday 3:00pm Real Villains and AI: AI as a Hacker Tool

Thursday 3:00pm Humanoid Robots

Thursday 3:00pm Oops . . . Fails in SF and Science Writing

Thursday 4:30pm A Carrington Event: What if the Sun Destroys our Satellites?

Thursday 4:30pm Future Transportation: Thinking Beyond Autonomous EVs

Thursday 4:30pm Regenerative Agriculture: Good soil, clean water, and more

Thursday 4:30pm Robots in Science Fiction: Who’s Writing What in Robotics?

Thursday 6:00pm Alien and Robot Consciousness

Thursday 6:00pm SOS on the ISS: Medical Emergencies in Orbit

Thursday 7:30pm How the Early Universe Keeps Delivering New Surprises

Friday 10:30am From Science Fiction to Reality: The XPRIZE Model

Friday 10:30am Future Schooling: What Will Education Be Like in the Future?

Friday 10:30am Data and Privacy: Keeping Your Data Safe

Friday 10:30am Birds for Nerds: An Outdoorsy Hobby for Introverts

Friday 10:30am Best Whump Options: Injuries for Fiction

Friday 12:00pm Rage Against The Machine

Friday 1:30pm Planetary Impacts: Harbingers of Creation and Destruction

Friday 1:30pm Generative AI and Writing: Navigating Tool AI‑ification

Friday 1:30pm How Can You Help Save Space Science?

Friday 3:00pm XPRIZE: Designing the World of Tomorrow

Friday 3:00pm Robots at War: Drones, Big Dogs and Other Robots in Combat

Friday 3:00pm From Star Trek to Sustainable Aviation: Dr. Anita Sengupta

Friday 3:00pm AI and Democracy

Friday 3:00pm Interstellar Life: Trade in a Sublight Universe

Friday 4:30pm Could The Expanse Represent our Future?

Friday 4:30pm Sci fi or Real? How are Quantum Technologies Used Today?

Friday 4:30pm Fandom Needs Its Brains: How Do We Keep Them Healthy?

Friday 7:30pm Women in Space

Friday 7:30pm The Most Alien Planet: The Ancient Earth

Saturday 7:30am The Times We Found Alien Life... Almost (Virtual)

Saturday 7:30am Existential Hope: Envisioning Real World Futures Workshop

Saturday 9:00am Europa Clipper: Mission to an Icy Ocean World

Saturday 9:00am What’s Next for the Exploration of Venus?

Saturday 9:00am Fungus Among Us: Mushrooms for Good and Evil

Saturday 10:30am The Times We Found Alien Life... Almost

Saturday 10:30am Voyager at 50

Saturday 10:30am What Is Ethical AI?

Saturday 10:30am Nineteenth Century Medicine

Saturday 10:30am Terraforming California, Earth, and beyond

Saturday 10:30am Technology through the Ages: a History of Science (Virtual)

Saturday 12:00pm Catching a Criminal: Forensics for SF/Mystery Writers

Saturday 12:00pm Can We Stop the Tech Oligarchy Making SF Warnings Real?

Saturday 12:00pm Geography of Mars: Names, Places, and Updates

Saturday 12:00pm SciComm and You: How Do We Use Science for Good?

Saturday 1:30pm Meet the Island Fox: Conservation, Comeback, and Care

Saturday 1:30pm Is There a Man Behind the Curtain Or Is the Internet Dead?

Saturday 1:30pm Artemis II:Ii: Are We Going Back to the Moon to Stay?

Saturday 1:30pm Science is Not Truth. It’s Hypothesis and Hard Work

Saturday 1:30pm AI Through a Hopeful Lens

Saturday 1:30pm Bringing Robots to Life: Building Social Intelligence

Saturday 1:30pm Farming in Fantasy: Practical Tips for Imagined Worlds

Saturday 3:00pm Do Extraterrestrials Really Need Water?

Saturday 3:00pm Tall Technical Tales: Stories from the Lab, Bench or Field

Saturday 3:00pm Creating an Economy Without Inducing Math Anxiety

Saturday 4:30pm Crafting an Inclusive Future for Space Exploration

Saturday 4:30pm Mind of a Child: A scientist’s curiosity about the world

Saturday 4:30pm Medicine After The Apocalypse: Managing Chronic Conditions

Saturday 4:30pm Data Centers: Where Should They Go and How?

Saturday 4:30pm Technology through the Ages: a History of Science

Saturday 4:30pm Geoengineering: Great Danger and/or Great Opportunity?

Saturday 6:00pm Extreme Environments: Space and the Deep

Saturday 6:00pm Cell Therapy 101: Treating Diseases with Living Medications

Saturday 6:00pm COVID-19 Lessons: Practical Takeaways for the Next Pandemic

Saturday 7:30pm Improbable Research: Ig Nobel Award Dramatic Readings

Sunday 9:00am Beam Me Up, Scotty! How Close Are We to Teleportation?

Sunday 9:00am How Are Teachers Using Science Fiction in the Classroom?

Sunday 9:00am Best Whump Options: Injuries for Fiction (Virtual)

Sunday 10:30am AMA: Ask Me Anything with Scientists

Sunday 10:30am LLMs: What They Can Do, Can’t Do, and Will Do Someday

Sunday 10:30am Alternative Energy: Tools to Switch on Better Power

Sunday 10:30am Creating an Economy Without Inducing Math Anxiety (Virtual)

Sunday 10:30am What Happens if We Create Truly Sentient AI? (Virtual)

Sunday 12:00pm Dark Skies: What Changes as the Stars Disappear?

Sunday 12:00pm When Everything Has Rights: Ecosystems, Animals and Robots!

Sunday 12:00pm AI Through a Hopeful Lens (Virtual)

Sunday 1:30pm Future Cities: New Ideas For Dense and Workable Cities

Sunday 1:30pm Concepts from David Brin’s New Book on AI: AIlien Minds

Sunday 1:30pm Grudges in Science: Science Can Be a Tough Competition

Sunday 1:30pm Space in LA: California Space Companies are Thriving!

Sunday 3:00pm Future Economies: What If Everyone Had a Roof and Two Meals?

Sunday 3:00pm Boldly Going: A Conversation with Tracy Drain

Sunday 3:00pm Deep Space Voyages: How Will Humans Thrive Between the Stars?

Sunday 3:00pm Evolution is an Arms Race: Bizarre Plants and Animals

Sunday 3:00pm What Happens if We Create Truly Sentient AI?

Sunday 4:30pm Is Interplanetary War Possible?

Sunday 4:30pm Living in Space: Where Should We Go First?

Sunday 4:30pm How Orbital Mechanics Shape Our Solar System

Sunday 4:30pm Fact-Checking Your Fiction: Research for Speculative Worlds

Sunday 4:30pm Can We Stop the Tech Oligarchy Making SF Warnings Real? (Virtual)

Monday 10:30am The Talking Cat Journey

Monday 10:30am Requesting Grants & Applying for Funding

Monday 10:30am Too Cool to be a Fungus: Slime Molds for the Win

Monday 10:30am AMA: Ask Me Anything with Scientists (Virtual)

Monday 12:00pm Dragonfly Over Titan: NASA’s Octocopter

Monday 12:00pm Junk in Space: What Will We Do With All the Dead Satellites?

Monday 1:30pm Polycrisis: Living Through Many Challenges At Once (Virtual)

Spanish Language

Friday 10:00pm Latinx Horror Film Fest

Saturday 7:30am ¡espaÑolismo! Spanish Podcast: Yo, Bruja – The Story of a Bruja (Witch) in the Modern World

Stroll with the Stars

Thursday 9:00am Stroll with the Stars

Friday 8:00am Stroll with the Stars

Saturday 8:00am Stroll with the Stars

Sunday 8:00am Stroll with the Stars

Monday 8:00am Stroll with the Stars

Table Talks

Thursday 9:00am Virtual Table Talk: Beatrice Erkers

Thursday 10:30am Virtual Table Talk: Ada Palmer

Thursday 12:00pm Table Talk: Brooks Peck

Thursday 12:00pm Table Talk: Eris Young

Thursday 12:00pm Table Talk: Gabrielle de Cuir

Thursday 12:00pm Table Talk: Brittany Otto

Thursday 12:00pm Virtual Table Talk: Cristián Londoño-Proaño

Thursday 1:30pm Table Talk: Shay Kauwe

Thursday 1:30pm Table Talk: Neil Clarke

Thursday 1:30pm Table Talk: Michael Solis

Thursday 1:30pm Table Talk: John Picacio

Thursday 1:30pm Table Talk: Terese Mason Pierre

Thursday 3:00pm Table Talk: Somto Ihezue

Thursday 3:00pm Table Talk: Thomas Ha

Thursday 3:00pm Table Talk: Sara Felix

Thursday 3:00pm Table Talk: Lee Harris

Thursday 3:00pm Table Talk: Theodora Goss

Thursday 3:00pm Virtual Table Talk: Andrew Rubin

Thursday 4:30pm Table Talk: Dennis K. Crosby

Thursday 4:30pm Table Talk: Yume Kitasei

Thursday 4:30pm Table Talk: Callie Hart

Thursday 4:30pm Table Talk: John Scalzi

Thursday 6:00pm Table Talk: Mari Ness

Thursday 6:00pm Table Talk: Jake Casella Brookins

Thursday 6:00pm Table Talk: N.E. Davenport

Thursday 6:00pm Table Talk: Kamilah Cole

Thursday 6:00pm Virtual Table Talk: Effie Seiberg

Thursday 7:30pm Table Talk: Marshall Ryan Maresca

Thursday 7:30pm Virtual Table Talk: Miguel O. Mitchell

Thursday 9:00pm Virtual Table Talk: Sue Burke

Thursday 10:30pm Virtual Table Talk: Cat Girczyc

Friday 1:30am Virtual Table Talk: Charusheel Manikrao Mane

Friday 6:00am Virtual Table Talk: S. M. Hallow

Friday 9:00am Table Talk: Emily Hockaday

Friday 9:00am Table Talk: Foz Meadows

Friday 9:00am Table Talk: Nikhil Koparkar

Friday 9:00am Table Talk: Joe Haldeman

Friday 9:00am Table Talk: Tracy Drain

Friday 10:30am Table Talk: Brian U. Garrison

Friday 10:30am Table Talk: Beth Tabler & Adrian Collins

Friday 10:30am Table Talk: Robert Jackson Bennett

Friday 10:30am Table Talk: Gail Carriger

Friday 10:30am Virtual Table Talk: MK Hardy

Friday 12:00pm Table Talk: Taunya Gren

Friday 12:00pm Table Talk: Marguerite Kenner and Alasdair Stuart

Friday 12:00pm Table Talk: Hugo Girl

Friday 12:00pm Table Talk: Worldbuilding for Masochists

Friday 12:00pm Virtual Table Talk: Trip Galey

Friday 1:30pm Table Talk: David D. Levine

Friday 1:30pm Table Talk: Samantha Mills

Friday 1:30pm Table Talk: Ellen Datlow

Friday 1:30pm Table Talk: Marie Brennan

Friday 1:30pm Table Talk: CARMILLA JO

Friday 1:30pm Table Talk: Janet Forbes

Friday 3:00pm Table Talk: Dr. Jason Aukerman

Friday 3:00pm Table Talk: Sophie Burnham

Friday 3:00pm Table Talk: Angela Liu

Friday 3:00pm Table Talk: Jeff Sturgeon

Friday 3:00pm Table Talk: Sarah Rees Brennan

Friday 3:00pm Table Talk: T. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon)

Friday 4:30pm Table Talk: Anastasia Klimchynskaya

Friday 4:30pm Table Talk: Chris Kluwe

Friday 4:30pm Table Talk: Gary K Wolfe

Friday 4:30pm Table Talk: Lavanya Lakshminarayan

Friday 4:30pm Table Talk: David Gerrold

Friday 4:30pm Table Talk: Elizabeth Bear

Friday 4:30pm Virtual Table Talk: Jason Sanford

Friday 6:00pm Table Talk: Rachanee Lumayno

Friday 6:00pm Table Talk: Howard Tayler

Friday 6:00pm Table Talk: Robin Hobb

Friday 6:00pm Table Talk: Margaret Owen

Friday 6:00pm Table Talk: Fonda Lee

Friday 6:00pm Virtual Table Talk: Heather Rose Jones

Friday 7:30pm Table Talk: Alexander Mui (Con History)

Friday 7:30pm Table Talk: Tia Tashiro

Friday 7:30pm Table Talk: Larry Niven

Friday 7:30pm Table Talk: Geoffrey A. Landis

Friday 7:30pm Virtual Table Talk: Henry Spencer

Friday 9:00pm Virtual Table Talk: Laura Anne Gilman

Saturday 12:00am Virtual Table Talk: Nero Villagallos O’Reilly

Saturday 1:30am Virtual Table Talk: Joyce Chng

Saturday 4:30am Virtual Table Talk: Susie Williamson

Saturday 9:00am Table Talk: Stefan Rudnicki

Saturday 9:00am Table Talk: Daryl Gregory

Saturday 9:00am Table Talk: Henry Lien

Saturday 9:00am Table Talk: Tim Kirk

Saturday 9:00am Virtual Table Talk: Phoebe Barton

Saturday 10:30am Table Talk: Malachi Lily

Saturday 10:30am Table Talk: Tamika Thompson

Saturday 10:30am Table Talk: Natania Barron

Saturday 10:30am Virtual Table Talk: Blue Delliquanti

Saturday 12:00pm Table Talk: J.R. Dawson

Saturday 12:00pm Table Talk: Mur Lafferty

Saturday 12:00pm Table Talk: Catherynne M. Valente

Saturday 12:00pm Table Talk: Russell Davis

Saturday 12:00pm Table Talk: Arkady Martine

Saturday 12:00pm Table Talk: Micaiah Johnson

Saturday 12:00pm Virtual Table Talk: Xan van Rooyen

Saturday 1:30pm Table Talk: E.G. Condé

Saturday 1:30pm Table Talk: Harry Turtledove

Saturday 1:30pm Table Talk: Gregg Castro

Saturday 1:30pm Table Talk: Tammy Coxen

Saturday 1:30pm Table Talk: Teresa and Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Saturday 1:30pm Table Talk: Walter Jon Williams

Saturday 1:30pm Virtual Table Talk: Naomi Novik

Saturday 3:00pm Table Talk: Isabel J. Kim

Saturday 3:00pm Table Talk: Diana M. Pho

Saturday 3:00pm Table Talk: Charlaine Harris

Saturday 3:00pm Table Talk: Jennifer Hudak

Saturday 3:00pm Table Talk: Dr Anita Sengupta

Saturday 3:00pm Table Talk: Cecilia Amo, Esq.

Saturday 3:00pm Virtual Table Talk: Shen Tao

Saturday 4:30pm Table Talk: Weyodi OldBear

Saturday 4:30pm Table Talk: Joe Monti

Saturday 4:30pm Table Talk: Elizabeth Sandifer

Saturday 4:30pm Table Talk: Amal El-Mohtar

Saturday 4:30pm Table Talk: Fran Wilde

Saturday 4:30pm Table Talk: Steven Barnes

Saturday 4:30pm Virtual Table Talk: Erin Brown

Saturday 6:00pm Table Talk: Monte Lin

Saturday 6:00pm Table Talk: Kath O David

Saturday 6:00pm Table Talk: David Brin

Saturday 6:00pm Table Talk: Jordan Ticktin

Saturday 7:30pm Table Talk: Alex Pheby

Saturday 7:30pm Table Talk: David J. Peterson

Saturday 7:30pm Virtual Table Talk: Reuben “Tihi” Hayslett

Saturday 9:00pm Virtual Table Talk: Kel McDonald

Saturday 10:30pm Virtual Table Talk: Anna Faktorovich

Sunday 12:00am Virtual Table Talk: Jaymee Goh

Sunday 1:30am Virtual Table Talk: Solomon Uhiara

Sunday 3:00am Virtual Table Talk: Jessica Leman

Sunday 6:00am Virtual Table Talk: Cora Buhlert

Sunday 7:30am Virtual Table Talk: Tiffani Angus

Sunday 9:00am Table Talk: Carl Engle-Laird

Sunday 9:00am Table Talk: Krys Blackwood

Sunday 9:00am Table Talk: Liz Argall

Sunday 9:00am Virtual Table Talk: Mona Tewari

Sunday 10:30am Table Talk: Bruce Schneier

Sunday 10:30am Table Talk: Mary Robinette Kowal

Sunday 10:30am Table Talk: Louise Riofrio

Sunday 10:30am Table Talk: Barbara Hambly

Sunday 10:30am Virtual Table Talk: Lorraine Wilson

Sunday 12:00pm Table Talk: Susan de Guardiola

Sunday 12:00pm Table Talk: Jennifer Svedberg-Yen

Sunday 12:00pm Table Talk: Shlomi Harif

Sunday 12:00pm Table Talk: Michael Cassutt

Sunday 12:00pm Table Talk: Liza Groen Trombi

Sunday 12:00pm Table Talk: Max Gladstone

Sunday 1:30pm Table Talk: Dave Kellett

Sunday 1:30pm Table Talk: Christopher Caldwell

Sunday 1:30pm Table Talk: Maria Alexander

Sunday 1:30pm Table Talk: Holly Black

Sunday 1:30pm Table Talk: Rebecca Matte

Sunday 1:30pm Table Talk: Stan Sakai

Sunday 3:00pm Table Talk: Bill Higgins

Sunday 3:00pm Table Talk: Joshua Bilmes

Sunday 3:00pm Table Talk: Kevin Roche

Sunday 3:00pm Table Talk: Kate Elliott

Sunday 3:00pm Table Talk: H.H. Pak

Sunday 3:00pm Table Talk: Richard Sparks

Sunday 3:00pm Virtual Table Talk: Akua Lezli Hope

Sunday 4:30pm Table Talk: Dr. JA Grier

Sunday 4:30pm Table Talk: Andy Dudak

Sunday 4:30pm Table Talk: Margaret Dunlap

Sunday 4:30pm Table Talk: Robert J. Sawyer

Sunday 4:30pm Virtual Table Talk: Sarah Pinsker

Sunday 6:00pm Table Talk: David Raiklen

Sunday 6:00pm Table Talk: Tess Tanenbaum

Sunday 6:00pm Table Talk: Andrea Stewart

Sunday 6:00pm Table Talk: Eric Linus Kaplan

Sunday 6:00pm Table Talk: Cecilia Tan

Sunday 6:00pm Virtual Table Talk: Bert-Oliver Boehmer

Sunday 10:30pm Virtual Table Talk: D. Wes Rist

Monday 6:00am Virtual Table Talk: Marie Parks

Monday 7:30am Virtual Table Talk: Noor Tannir

Monday 9:00am Table Talk: Scott Edelman

Monday 9:00am Table Talk: Brandon O’Brien

Monday 9:00am Table Talk: Michi Trota

Monday 9:00am Table Talk: Jennifer Brozek

Monday 9:00am Table Talk: Atlin Merrick

Monday 9:00am Virtual Table Talk: William Frank

Monday 10:30am Table Talk: Jared Pechacek

Monday 10:30am Table Talk: Patricia McCracken

Monday 10:30am Table Talk: Arley Sorg

Monday 10:30am Table Talk: Lin Codega

Monday 10:30am Table Talk: Zoe Franznick

Monday 10:30am Virtual Table Talk: Eugene R Young

Monday 12:00pm Table Talk: Steve Collins

Monday 12:00pm Table Talk: Kemi

Monday 12:00pm Table Talk: Seanan McGuire

Monday 12:00pm Table Talk: Colleen Doran

Monday 12:00pm Virtual Table Talk: Michelle Witte

Monday 1:30pm Table Talk: Bridget Duffy

Monday 1:30pm Table Talk: Molly O’Neill

Monday 1:30pm Table Talk: Jane Shevtsov

Monday 1:30pm Virtual Table Talk: David Ian Salter

Teen Program

Thursday 12:00pm Then the Fire Nation Attacked: Avatar the Last Airbender

Thursday 1:30pm Gather Your Party: Teen LARP Writing Workshop

Thursday 3:00pm The Butler Did It: Teen Mystery Workshop

Thursday 6:00pm Wandering the Stars: Space Science for Teens

Friday 10:30am 1v1 Flash Debate Battle: Ethical Dilemma in Sci-Fi

Friday 1:30pm Storymatic: Teen Idea Generating Workshop

Friday 3:00pm Writer Here, Right Now

Friday 4:30pm And Then What? Plotting for Planners, Pantsers, and Revisers

Friday 6:00pm A Scream is Worth 1000 Words: Teen Horror Writing Workshop

Friday 7:30pm Design Your Own Worldcon: Fandom in 2050

Saturday 9:00am Where in the World? Teen Map Making Workshop

Saturday 10:30am Line by Line: Teen Poetry Workshop

Saturday 12:00pm And Now, I Die: Fight Choreography for Writing

Saturday 1:30pm How Teens Can Survive the Zombie Apocalypse

Saturday 3:00pm Build a World in 60 Minutes: An Interactive Science Fiction Workshop

Saturday 6:00pm Signs, Signals, & Secret Codes: Gestural Languages for Teens

Sunday 9:00am Thaumawhat? Teen Magic Systems Workshop

Sunday 10:30am Diamond in the Rough: How to Revise Your Stories

Sunday 12:00pm Shorter is Better: Teen Flash Fiction Workshop

Sunday 1:30pm Snap, snap! The Weird World of Wednesday Addams

Sunday 3:00pm Fractured Fairy Tales: Teen Writing Workshop

Sunday 4:30pm Apocalypse Now: Dystopias for Teens

Sunday 6:00pm Shake it Off: Teen Dance Party

Monday 10:30am From Idea to Book: A Realistic Guide for Teen Creators

Monday 12:00pm Kiss and Tell: Teens Writing Romance

Theater

Thursday 12:00pm Adapting SFF for the Stage

Friday 6:00am Stage Frights: Playwriting 101

Sunday 10:30am Adapting SFF for the Stage (Virtual)

Monday 10:30am An Improvisational Storytelling Session

Transformative Fandom

Saturday 10:30am Freedom in Anonymity: Having an Alias for Your Fanfic

Saturday 12:00pm “Cringe Culture is Dead”: Being Open About Fanfic

Saturday 1:30pm Fan Crafting as Transformative Work

Saturday 3:00pm Transformative Works as “Transgressive”

Saturday 6:00pm How Important Is Canon Anyway?

Sunday 12:00pm Transformative Works Data Analysis

Sunday 4:30pm Fanfic Recommendations

WSFS

Thursday 4:30pm WSFS MPC Meeting: Thursday

Saturday 9:00am Future Worldcons Question and Answer

Sunday 10:00am WSFS Business Meeting—Site Selection

Sunday 1:30pm WSFS MPC Meeting: Sunday

Writing & the Business of Writing

Thursday 9:00am Creative Worldbuilding: A Workshop from Applied African SF

Thursday 12:00pm Writing the Fey

Thursday 1:30pm Collaborative Writing

Thursday 1:30pm Meet Debut Authors of 2026! 1st Edition

Thursday 1:30pm Marketing your Indie Book through Social Media and Community Building

Thursday 1:30pm Writing a Way Out of This Mess

Thursday 1:30pm Outlining Stories While ADHD

Thursday 3:00pm The Business Side of a Writing Career

Thursday 3:00pm What?! You Want Me to Read My Own Book ... in Public?

Thursday 3:00pm Villains You Root For

Thursday 3:00pm Enchanting the Pacific

Thursday 4:30pm Breaking Into Traditional Publishing As a New, Older Author

Thursday 4:30pm What the Heck is ‘Cozy Horror’?

Thursday 4:30pm Writing Cover or Query Letters

Thursday 6:00pm How to Change Your Writing Process: When Pantsers Have to Outline

Thursday 7:30pm Crafting Novellas, Novelettes, Short Stories, and Flash/Micro Fiction

Friday 6:00am Mysticism and the Supernatural in African Science Fiction

Friday 7:30am Find the Write Song: A Writing Workshop With Tunes

Friday 9:00am Research Stories

Friday 9:00am Why You Need Sensitivity Readers

Friday 9:00am Writing Loyal Companions in SF/F

Friday 9:00am Don’t Show Your Story, Tell It!

Friday 9:00am Delving Deep: Using Folklore in Your Worldbuilding

Friday 10:30am Choose Wisely: Our Setting is Our First Character

Friday 10:30am Viable Paradise: A Residential Writing Workshop

Friday 10:30am Beyond the Pantsers and Plotters Spectrum (Virtual)

Friday 12:00pm Writing the Anatomy of Fear: What Really Scares Us?

Friday 12:00pm Alpha, Beta, ARC Readers, and Editors: Know the Differences

Friday 12:00pm Is Religion A Necessary Part Of Worldbuilding?

Friday 12:00pm Beyond Save the Cat: Alternative Story Structures for Adventurous Writers

Friday 12:00pm Making Your Words Sing, a Sensory Workshop

Friday 1:30pm The Legal Intricacies of Publishing Contracts

Friday 1:30pm Finding Satisfaction as an Author Apart from Sales (or Lack Thereof)

Friday 1:30pm Designing Convincing Magical Systems

Friday 1:30pm Finding Your Voice

Friday 3:00pm You Must Adhere to the Rules! (Not.)

Friday 3:00pm Writing a Happily Ever After

Friday 3:00pm Writing Medical Fiction (Virtual)

Friday 4:30pm Writing the Science Fiction Murder Mystery

Friday 4:30pm The Art of Editing Returns/Editing as an Art Form

Friday 6:00pm Contracts 101: What You Don’t Want to Not Know About Publishing Agreements

Friday 6:00pm Creative Economies Rising: How Storytelling Drives Cultural and Economic Influence

Friday 6:00pm Queer/Trans Representation 101: Authors, Characters, POV, and Marketing

Friday 6:00pm Toxic Masculinity: Writing Men

Friday 6:00pm Writing As Healing

Friday 6:00pm Food in Science Fiction and Fantasy (Virtual)

Friday 7:30pm Switching Hats Between Author and Editor

Saturday 9:00am Purple vs Windowpane Prose: Navigating Between Two Extremes

Saturday 9:00am Murder and Mayhem—Writing Realistic Injuries for Authors

Saturday 9:00am Writing Neurodivergence

Saturday 10:30am Post Anthropic Rights Grab—Getting the Support Authors Need

Saturday 10:30am The Sauúti Collective: A New Model for Creative Worldbuilding

Saturday 10:30am Rewriting History — The Art and Ethics of Alternate Timelines (Virtual)

Saturday 10:30am Writing a good query letter

Saturday 12:00pm Successful Kickstarters and other Crowdfunders for Writers

Saturday 12:00pm Alpha, Beta, ARC Readers and Editors: Know the Differences (Virtual)

Saturday 1:30pm Traditional vs. Indie Publishing—Changes and Why They Matter

Saturday 1:30pm What Does An Agent Actually Do For An Author?

Saturday 1:30pm The Revisions Process: Dialogue between Martha Wells and Kate Elliott

Saturday 1:30pm How to Change Your Writing Process: When Pantsers Have to Outline (Virtual)

Saturday 1:30pm Point of View, What’s the Point? (Virtual)

Saturday 3:00pm How to Add Funny to Your Prose

Saturday 3:00pm Writing Series vs Standalones

Saturday 3:00pm Writers’ Co-Ops: Book View Cafe

Saturday 4:30pm Dragons: Friends to Humanity or Evil Monsters?

Saturday 4:30pm Meet Debut Authors of 2026! (Virtual)

Saturday 4:30pm Choose Wisely: Our Setting is Our First Character (Virtual)

Saturday 6:00pm Your Manuscript Is Ready for Indie Publication. Now what?

Saturday 6:00pm Stories Set on Space Stations/Outposts

Sunday 9:00am How to Develop Good Writing Habits

Sunday 9:00am Neon Rites: Exploring Urban Folk Horror

Sunday 10:30am Editors’, Agents’, and Slush Readers’ Pet Peeves

Sunday 10:30am Author Branding for Introverts and Imposters

Sunday 10:30am The Marriage of Fantasy and Romance

Sunday 10:30am Censorship and Publishing

Sunday 10:30am Disability and Worldbuilding

Sunday 10:30am Fanfic Can Get You Published (Virtual)

Sunday 12:00pm Social Media and the Writer—2026

Sunday 12:00pm Do Self-Published Authors Need Their Own Website and Newsletter?

Sunday 12:00pm Cross-Genre, Slipstream, and Difficult-to-Categorize Writing

Sunday 12:00pm Non-Linear Story Structures from Non-Western Storytelling

Sunday 1:30pm So You Think You Want to Do an Anthology, Eh? (Virtual)

Sunday 3:00pm Let’s Talk Spec Fic Politics! (Virtual)

Sunday 4:30pm Beyond the Pantsers and Plotters Spectrum

Sunday 4:30pm Point of View, What’s the Point?

Sunday 4:30pm Social Classes in SF and Fantasy (Virtual)

Monday 9:00am Modern Monsters

Monday 10:30am How to Set Up and Run a Critique Group

Monday 10:30am Using Violent Conflict in your Writing

Monday 10:30am Historical Fiction Meets SF/F

Monday 10:30am Siblings: The Long Relationship Your Characters Don’t Choose

Monday 10:30am Should Writers Get an MFA (Master of Fine Arts)?

Monday 10:30am Writing Your Creepy Serial-Killer (Virtual)

Monday 1:30pm Fiber Arts in SF/F Fiction (Virtual)