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My First World Fantasy Convention – Kansas City Missouri 2023
In 2019, prior to the global pandemic, Karen went out to Los Angeles to attend World Fantasy Convention (WFC). Having run the British Fantasy Society’s Fantasycon in 2017 and 2018, she and I were considering the viability of a World Fantasy Convention in United Kingdom. The trip in 2019 was to investigate the possibility further…
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Obituary – David Drake
World Fantasy Award winner David Drake (b.1945) died on December 10. He had announced his retirement from writing in 2021, citing cognitive health issues. Drake is perhaps best known for his Hammers Slammers series. Beginning with the story “Under the Hammer,” in 1974, the series ran to several novels and short stories and established Drake…
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Locating a Convention…
It’s been a long road to Brighton, with a few detours on the way. Brighton was not our first choice of venue; you may have seen earlier announcements saying the event was going to be near Birmingham. Sadly, despite having had a provisional booking with them for some time, we were somehow double booked on…
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Becoming a Member…
Some of the terminology and options on our website can be confusing, so I have put together a few notes and frequently asked questions to help with this. There are more general notes abut the event (and different membership types) on the About the Convention page. Whats the difference between Ticket, Memberships and Subscriptions? Traditionally…
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Welcome!
We have been on an exciting journey to get to this point and we are really hoping you are going to join us for this next stage. It all started in 2018, having just run UK Fantasycon for the second time, I turned to Allen Stroud and said “How would you feel about running World…