The conference on imaginative literature

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.

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!

#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:

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...

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!

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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.

Our schedule is final: schedule.readercon.org It can only be made better by you being there. We hope to see you!

The Readercon 34 program schedule has just been finalized : schedule.readercon.org - Come by and check out our fabulous schedule of events and awesome participants. Looking forward to seeing everyone in July 17 to 20th in Burlington MA. Registration at: readercon.org/registration

My @readercon.org schedule is going to be so packed with chewy, thought-provoking goodness~ ! it's still a draft so I'm not posting it yet, but get ready for panels like "Bisexuals: Still Hip?" "Weird Jobs (of authors)" and "Harry Potter and the Death of the Author" (no authors were harmed).

We've confirmed that the Heinlein Society and MGH are doing a blood drive at Readercon 34 on Saturday July 19th. If you are attending and are willing to donate whole blood, platelets or red blood cells, sign up here: bit.ly/Readercon2. If you're not sure you can donate: bit.ly/BloodDonorEl...

The Readercon 34 list of participants has been posted to our website. readercon.org/participants Please come by and see who will be on our panels, discussions, and readings at this year's conference. Look forward to seeing you in July.

We are starting to get ready for this year's conference and we think you'll love the program! To be announced shortly!

For anybody interested in honoring one of the masters:

Do you enjoy a conference that celebrates thought in literature? Do you enjoy a conference that has fun with stories? Come to Readercon! We do both!

Readercon 34 will take place on July 17th to 20th, 2025 at the Burlington Marriott in Burlington MA. Our guests of honor this year are Cecilia Tan (@ceciliatan.com) and P. Djèlí Clark (@pdjeliclark.bsky.social) Come by our website readercon.org for more information or to register.

We’re now only $306 away from the stretch goal that will require me to write a new Magic University story! I’ll be polling backers to see who or what it should be about!

@readercon.bsky.social We have a verified account at @readercon.org, we should talk about making sure these accounts are in sync. Please get a hold of us to make this better.