Come and brave the cold and rain at the Boston Book Festival! Our table will have brilliant authors coming by to talk about their work. See our schedule: It is so worth it!

Going to the Boston Book Festival? October 17, 2026 from 10a-5p  Boston's Copley Square I mean, who isn't? We will be at Booth #44 along Dartmouth St.

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#Readercon has a booth this year at the Boston Book Festival. bostonbookfest.org It's being held on Saturday, October 17, 10am - 6pm, in Copley Square, Boston Over 25,000 people attend each year, so a great chance to let some book lovers know about Readercon! #booksky

Have we crowed loud enough that our 2027 guests of honor are Fonda Lee and Neil Clarke of Clarkesworld Magazine? How awesome is that? Come and join us in July 2027 as we celebrate their contributions to the literature of speculative fiction!

#Readercon has a booth this year at the Boston Book Festival. bostonbookfest.org It's being held on Saturday, October 17, 10am - 6pm, in Copley Square, Boston Over 25,000 people attend each year, so a great chance to let some book lovers know about Readercon! #booksky

The Readercon 35 online schedule has been posted: schedule.readercon.org Come by and see all the panels and panelists who will be at Readercon in just a few weeks.

We are definitely fans of all the love and support coming through! We've cross $10k and are nearly halfway there! Here's some Fund Drive issue coming your way:

Strange Horizons 2027 Fundraiser

The annual Strange Horizons fundraiser! Support this free, online, award-winning, weekly magazine of SFFH, which runs entirely on reader - YOUR - donations!

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Panelists have been receiving their schedules. You can expect many sharing this in their social media. Come and be part of the excitement! readercon.org

Reminder to all coming to Readercon in July, make sure to book your hotel room at the Readercon rate before Thursday June 17th. readercon.org/hotel

Massachusetts folks: Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social is lobbying for a Freedom to Read bill at the State House that has already passed the Senate. Please call or email your state rep and urge them to get H. 3594 on the floor and vote YES. malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H3...

#Booksky Life During Wartime, DreamHaven edition: still digging out from getting a huge number of orders in 3 days so web ordering is still down. There is an in person comix sale today and new funds from the 2020 GoFundMe are going to food shelves/school book drives. www.gofundme.com/f/dreamhaven...

Donate to DreamHaven Restoration, organized by Greg Ketter

DreamHaven Books & Comics has been around in one form or another for 43 years in the Twin Cities ar… Greg Ketter needs your support for DreamHaven Restoration

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We're looking for folks to write about our Memorial Guest of Honor for our souvenir book: Mike Resnick Please reach out to margo.williams @ gmail .com if you're interested

spent the afternoon chucking the year's worth of accumulated program ideas into @readercon.org 's suggestion box, as I do. you've got until January 31 to make sure it's not just me in there! readercon.org/contribute

I am reading at this wonderful (and STACKED!) event next Saturday night in Boston! Come if you can! I’d love to see you!

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Today on the blog-- Live Event 1/31/26 in Beverley, MA @copperdogbooks.bsky.social to Raise Money for @sjacksonawards.bsky.social. Featuring @paultremblay.bsky.social @johnlangan.bsky.social @ericlarocca.bsky.social, @catvalente.bsky.social and Me Details: raforall.blogspot.com/2026/01/live...

Have a great idea for the readercon 35 program? Submit your idea here: readercon.org/contribute! We'd be delighted to learn of it!

Readercon is doing a final call for program item proposals for the forthcoming Readercon 35. Use our handy form to suggest panel ideas or people you think should be at Readercon: readercon.org/contribute Thank you, it's your suggestions that make Readercon wonderful.

Once he bestrode the field like a colossus. Now he's gone. Rest in peace, John Varley. floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2025/12/john...

John Varley, 1947-2025

. John Varley died two days ago on December 10, 2025.  A great many will mourn him as a science fiction writer whose work they enjoyed. But...

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Reminder: Please submit recommendations by Nov. 14th for the Otherwise Award jury to consider! Nominate works of speculative fiction - #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and more - that expand or explore our notions of gender: otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...

2025 Otherwise Award Recommendations « Otherwise Award

Recommend works here for the Otherwise Award jurors to consider!

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Find Readercon at the Boston Book Festival Saturday, October 24: Table 30

Readercon 35 will take place on July 9 – 12, 2026 at the Burlington Marriott in Burlington MA. Our guests of honor this year are P. Djèlí Clark (@pdjeliclark.bsky.social) and David Gerrold. Come by our website readercon.org for more information or to register.

A great article about Readercon 34: file770.com/derns-belate...

Dern’s (Belated) Readercon 34 (2025) Report’n’Pix: Adding To Our Mounts To-Be-Read

By Daniel Dern: Attending Readercon 34, “The conference on imaginative literature” (per the web site), held Thursday July 17-Sunday July 20, 2025 at the Boston Marriott Burlington hotel in Burlingt…

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At Readercon 34 bsky.app/hashtag/LJCo... and @wbjwilliams.bsky.social moderated a poetry workshop based upon the Exquisite Corpse parlor game. They created poetry from a prompt, each person writing the next line of the poem with only the prior line visible. wbjwilliams.wordpress.com/2025/08/16/r...

Readercon 34: Exquisite Corpse Poetry Workshop

At Readercon 34, LJ Cohen and WBJ Williams moderated a poetry workshop based upon the Exquisite Corpse parlor game. They created two groups and created poetry from a prompt, each person writing the…

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In this year’s @readercon.org interviews, authors discuss their work, experiences with audiobooks/audio fiction, and what they think of the con. I was lucky enough to interview: @fondalee.bsky.social @arula-ratnakar.bsky.social @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social narratedpodcast.com/episodes/318

318: ReaderCon 34 (2025) — Narrated Podcast

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Book-club break; still pretty bookish: for Episode 29, bringing you a con report about @readercon.org and travels about the Boston area, including an interview at @lovestruckbooks.bsky.social! ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/07/28/a...

A Meal of Thorns 29 – Readercon & Lovestruck

Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Credits:Featuring interviews with:Rae Borman @ ReaderconRiley @ Lovestruck …

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I wrote all about my experience at Readercon and the Shirley Jackson Awards! www.juliarios.com/why-didnt-yo...

Why Didn't You Just Leave won the Shirley Jackson Award!

I am honored, surprised, and delighted that our ghost story book won this award! Editing it, and translating the two stories by Alberto Chimal and Raquel Castro, was a truly wonderful experience

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2024 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners locusmag.com/2025/07...

2024 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners

The winners of the 2024 Shirley Jackson Awards for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction have been announced. Novel WINNER: Curdle Creek, Yvonne Battle…

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Thank you everyone who came to #readercon34. It was, by all accounts, a wonderful convention where everyone had a great time. We're looking forward to seeing all of you next year.

📣 Last call for Readercon memberships!!! 📣 Readercon starts on July 17. If you're a fan or creative of colour and need a pass to attend, give us a shout! dreamfoundry.org/con...

readercon.org/bookshop - Come support the small press publishers and independent book shops at Readercon 34 (July 18-20th): @waterdragonpub.bsky.social , @pmpress.bsky.social , @duckprintspress.com , @dragonwell.bsky.social , @clarkesworldmagazine.com, and many others.