Windycon

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Windycon
StatusActive
GenreScience Fiction/Fantasy Convention
Location(s)Oak Brook, Illinois
Country United States
InauguratedOctober 25-27, 1974
Most recentNovember 10-12, 2023
Next eventNovember 8-10, 2024
Organized byISFiC
Filing statusNon-profit
Website www.windycon.org

Windycon is a science fiction and fantasy literature convention held in Oak Brook, Illinois, on the weekend closest to Veterans Day.

ISFiC, the parent corporation that runs Windycon, [1] was founded in 1973 in Chicago. The first Windycon was held the following year and has been held annually ever since either in Chicago or a Chicago suburb. [2] It is a general interest convention.

ISFiC and Windycon were founded to raise the profile of fandom in Chicago in preparation for a Worldcon bid. [1] In 1982, Chicon IV was the result. From its small beginnings, Windycon has grown to have an annual membership hovering around 1300. It is the largest of the two fan-run Chicago conventions.

Annually since 1986, ISFiC has hosted a writers contest, open to unpublished authors. The contest is judged by professional authors and editors. [3] Separately, Windycon has hosted a writers' workshop under the coordination of Richard Chwedyk since 2000. [4] From 2004 to 2015, ISFiC Press, the publishing arm of Windycon's parent organization, published a Guest of Honor book to be released at the convention.

References

  1. 1 2 Pavlac, Ross, What's an ISFiC, ISFiC Web Site, retrieved, 2015-11-10
  2. ↑ The Windycon Big List, Windycon Web Site, retrieved, 2007-05-19
  3. ↑ "ISFiC, Inc.: Writers Contest Winners". www.isfic.org. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
  4. ↑ Foster, Adrienne (August–September 2009), "Next Manuscript, Please: Amazing Tales of the Worldcon Writers Workshop", SFWA Bulletin, p. 10


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