What Do Yellow Badges Mean?
The people who are wearing yellow badges are convention members who have volunteered to act as “Safe Responders” in the case of reported harassment. You […]
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Ursula K. le Guin on Reading
“Reading is performance. The reader— the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk— […]
FOGcon Schedule Apps Available for Android and iPhone!
Star Trek gave us communicators. Telzey Amberdon had a pocket law library. Arthur C. Clarke wrote of the newspad in 2001: A Space Odyssey and […]
Safety, Transparency, and Harassment: Alan Bostick’s Statement
As part of our process in dealing with the issues that have been raised around the Safety department, we promised to publish a statement from […]
The FOGcon Programming Schedule Is Coming
Over the weekend, a team of highly skilled professionals at the peak of their game met to make history. The Super Bowl? Nope. Scheduledome, the […]
GUEST POST: Interview with Dario Ciriello
Dario Ciriello is a writer and editor, as well as publisher at Panverse Publishing. He also founded the Written in Blood writers’ critique group. What […]
Unveiling the Secret of the Secrets Logo
Each year we commission new art for the cover of the program, which also serves for T-shirts, mugs, and other souvenirs available from our Zazzle […]
FOGcon Is Safer Space
Con harassment is an ugly topic. Far too many cons have failed to deal effectively with reports of harassment. So we’re glad to see that […]
GUEST POST: It Takes a Village to Run a Convention
The first time I volunteered at a convention, I did it more or less on a whim. I was at Torcon 3, the second Worldcon […]
SPOTLIGHT: An Interview with Tim Powers
What was your first experience at a science fiction/fantasy con like? My first convention was a Westercon in San Francisco in 1971, when I was […]