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Progress Report 2 Fantasy, Imagination, and the Dreams of Youth I hope everyone enjoyed the holidays your nominations. Every eligible person and is hope that everyone has a much (members of WFC 2019, 2020, and better 2021, even those that had a 2021) should nominate. good 2020! We’re so excited to have the The Awards Banquet will be held Sunday, opportunity to plan this year’s World November 7th, 2021. We will announce Fantasy Convention. We’ve assembled a the menu choices and start accepting great staff who have the skill and talent reservations during the summer. We to make this also plan to arrange some activities for special for everyone. We are all working to our members on Wednesday night and make the convention a place where artists, Thursday afternoon before the start of the authors, editors, and fans come together convention. to celebrate all aspects of Fantasy. We’ve put together this progress report In the midst of these difficult times, to give you a taste of what’s in store we want to assure everyone that we are for you at WFC 2020. Our team is actively monitoring the COVID-19 hard at work planning the art show, situation. We’re working hard to ascertain the hospitality suite, autograph session, every contingency that may have an dealers’ room, a comprehensive program, impact on WFC 2021. We will make readings, receptions, parties, and modifications to our plans accordingly everything else, including an amazing to keep our membership safe. We Guest of Honour list, that makes World sincerely hope there will be progress in Fantasy Convention stand out as a not controlling and conquering the virus long to be missed event. Plus, Montréal is a before our convention, and we are quite wonderful city with a great food culture, confident we will be able to hold an in- marvellous art, and a rich history. You person convention. We look forward to might want to extend your trip by a few welcoming you all to Montréal. Please feel days to explore the area. The hotel rates free to contact us at any time with your are available 3 days before and 3 days after concerns or questions. the con. The World Fantasy Awards Nomination See you in Montréal! Ballot is included in this Progress Report. Please take the time to submit Diane Lacey Chair

2 Fantasy, Imagination, and the Dreams of Youth For many years the subgenre of ‘Young where anything is possible, beyond the Adult’ has been incredibly popular. We constraints of mainstream literature. grew up on Brian Jacque’s Redwall and Fantasy elements also allow allegorical ’s Fantasy and Science exploration of issues of authority and Fiction, both. Many of us are responsibility, peer pressure, and other with Tamora Pierce’s Circle of Magic forms of economic and social conflict. and Defender of the Small series. Many Characters based on mythology or pure libraries and bookstores in the early imagination can transcend conventional years considered all SF&F as ‘children’s definitions and roles and explore questions literature’; a stigma still unfortunately of diversity and gender, racial, and cultural strong today. Since the success of the identities. Harry Potter series of books, the field of In blurring the boundaries between young adult fantasy has become much children’s and adult fiction, fantasy gives more acceptable to the mainstream, us many delightful worlds and creatures growing from being merely popular to deal with real emotional and social to becoming a dominant category of values. Young adult fiction leads readily st 21 century literature, bringing millions of into and Slipstream. The new readers to hundreds of new authors. celebrates fantasy fiction in all of its While focusing on younger protagonists, forms: epic, dark, paranormal, urban, and these stories appeal to all ages, including other varieties. mature readers reminded of their own age of wonder, and of the challenges everyone We invite members to share what they faces in adapting to the obligations and enjoy, what they have learned, what they opportunities of an adult world where have written themselves, and what they new rules and situations are not always hope to see coming in the field of young understood. Using a milieu of magic and adult fantasy fiction. mystery allows writers to make stories Committee Chair...... Diane Lacey Restaurant Guide...... Jo Walton Vice-Chair...... Terry Fong Accessibility...... Elizabeth Cano Chair’s Advisor...... Bruce Farr Hotel Liaison...... Dave Gallaher Registration...... Chris Smith Guest of Honour Liaison...Debi Chowdhury Finance...... Bruce Farr Storage and Logistics...... Jeff Orth Art Show...... Jannie Shea, Joni Dashoff Dockmaster...... Chris Marble Dealers Room...... Elizabeth Cano Social Media...... Marah Searle-Kovacevic Customs Liaison...... Laurie Mair Website...... Cenk Gökçe, Terry Fong Programme...... Deanna Sjolander Progress Reports...... Shirley Meier Autograph Session...... Ginny Smith Souvenir Book...... James Murray Banquet...... Ann Marie Rudolph Volunteer Coordinator....Ruth Lichtwardt Information...... Rebecca Downey

3 Guests of Honour – Shawl’s dozens of acclaimed stories Author Guest of Honour have appeared in Analog and Asimov’s magazines, among other publications. Many are collected in their 2009 Tiptree Award winner Filter House (2008, Aqueduct), and in two more recent volumes: Exploring Dark Fiction #3: A Primer to Nisi Shawl (2018, Dark Moon) and Talk Like a Man (2019, PM Press). Their “Everfair-adjacent” story “Vulcanization” appears in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2017, and their “Black Betty” was selected by LeVar Burton for inclusion in his live podcast series LeVar Burton Reads. Shawl edited New Suns: Original by People of Color (2019, Solaris), recipient of the Locus, Brave New Words, and Fiyah Magazine awards, and, recently, the 2020 British Multiple award-winner Nisi Shawl wrote Fantasy Award for Best Anthology. They the 2016 Nebula finalist and James have edited and co-edited several other Tiptree, Jr. Honor novel Everfair, an anthologies, such as Stories for Chip: A in which the Congo Tribute to Samuel R. Delany; and Strange overthrows King Leopold II’s genocidal Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, regime. African American Voices, and Octavia In 2005, with Cynthia Ward, they E. Butler; both finalists. co‑wrote Writing the Other: A Practical They contribute reviews and columns Approach, now the standard text on to The Seattle Times, Ms. Magazine, The diverse character representation in the Washington Post, and Tor.com. They have imaginative , and the basis of their lectured at Duke University, Spelman online and in-person classes of the same College, the University of Hawaii Manoa, name. They’re a founder of the inclusivity- and elsewhere. Shawl’s Middle Grade focused Carl Brandon Society and have , Speculation, is due out served on the Clarion West Writers in 2021 from Lee & Low. Currently they Workshop’s board of directors for over are finishing a draft of Kinning, a sequel to twenty years. Everfair.

4 Guests of Honour – founder of the creative imprint, Lone Boy, Artist Guest of Honour which has become the launchpad for his Loteria Grande cards, a bold contemporary re-imagineering of the classic Mexican game of chance. For more, please visit www.johnpicacio.com and his Twitter feed at @JohnPicacio. André-François Ruaud – Editor Guest of Honour

John Picacio is one of the most acclaimed American artists in fantasy, horror, and science fiction over the last decade, creating bestselling art for George R. R. Martin’s series, as well as major cover illustrations for authors such as , Harlan Elison, Brenda Cooper, James André-François Ruaud is a French Dashner, , , publisher and writer who lives in Mark Chadbourn, Sheri S. Tepper, James Bordeaux (France). He is the author of Tiptree, Jr., Lauren Beukes, , some twenty essays about science fiction, Joe R. Lansdale, and many, many more. fantasy and crime fiction. He has also Major clients include Penguin Random written novels and children books, most House, , HarperCollins, recently an alternative history series under Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, Saga Press, the pen name of Olav Koulikov. As a Subterranean Press, Baen Books, Dark publisher he has, since 2004, managed Horse, and many more. His accolades an independent publishing house, Les include the , two Moutons électriques (“Electric Sheep”, Hugo Awards, Chesley Awards, two Locus in French), specializing in SF and fantasy Awards, two International Horror Guild and focusing on original French-language Awards, and the . He is the works.

5 Guests of Honour – Special Guest customs and folklore of the American Indians, served in the military, owned a restaurant/lounge, and worked as a cemetery caretaker. Yves Meynard – Special Guest

Owl Goingback has been writing professionally for over thirty years, and is the author of numerous novels, children’s books, screenplays, magazine articles, and short stories. He is a Bram Stoker Yves Meynard was born in 1964, in the Award Winner, a three-time Stoker Award city of Québec, spent most of his life in Nominee, a Nominee, Longueuil, but moved to in 2013. and a Storytelling World Awards Honor He has been active in Québec SF circles Recipient. His books include Crota, since 1986, serving as literary editor for Darker Than Night, Evil Whispers, Breed, the magazine Solaris from 1994 to 2001. Shaman Moon, Coyote Rage, Eagle Feathers, Since 1986, he has published nearly and The Gift. Owl’s short story collection, forty short stories in French (in Solaris, Tribal Screams, was published in 2018. imagine…, Yellow Submarine, and others) The Coffee Shop of Horrors was created and twenty in English. His work in as Owl Goingback’s Tribal Screams roasted French has earned him five Boréal and six chestnut flavored coffee to tie-in with Aurora Awards, along with the Grand Prix the collection. Owl was also one of eight de la Science-Fiction et du writers chosen for DC Entertainment’s Québécois, Québec’s highest award in the 2016 Talent Development Workshop, and field, in 1994. recently added comic book writer to his professional resume. His first novel in English, The Book of Knights (Tor, 1998), was a Mythopoeic In addition to writing under his own Award finalist; Chrysanthe, his second, name, Owl has ghostwritten several appeared in 2012 from Tor. CZP books for Hollywood celebrities. He has published a collection of his short stories, lectured across the United States on the 6 Guests of Honour & Exiles, in 2015. He has published collection, Can You Sign My Tentacle?, is many books in French, among them the forthcoming from Interstellar Flight Press. novels Le livre des chevaliers (Alire,1999), Christine Taylor-Butler – Suprématie (Bragelonne, 2009) and Les Marches de la lune morte (Alire, 2015). Toastmaster The French translation of Chrysanthe was published by Alire. Yves holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Université de Montréal and earns a living as a software developer. Brandon O’Brien – Special Guest

Christine has been writing full-time for close to two decades. A graduate of MIT, she’s authored more than eighty books for children and young adults. Her photo essay, “Sacred Mountain” received praise from Kirkus Reviews and the Smithsonian’s Asian Pacific American Program. Her shift in career was predicated by her role on MIT’s Educational Council where she met teens too shy to admit they read Brandon O’Brien is a writer, performance fantasy and science fiction. As a result of poet, teaching artist and game designer her advocacy she received MIT’s George B. from Trinidad and Tobago. His work has Morgan award for excellence. Her current been shortlisted for the 2014 Alice Yard project is the The Lost Tribes, a speculative Prize for Art Writing and the 2014 and series about teens who discover their lives 2015 Small Axe Literary Competitions, may be a lie. The series is illustrated by and is published in Strange Horizons, Patrick Arrasmith, who is a genius. Uncanny Magazine, Reckoning, and New Christine and her husband, Ken, live in Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Kansas City, part of Tornado Alley, where Caribbean, among others. He is the former they serve as personal servants to several Poetry editor of FIYAH: A Magazine of cats and fish in a brick house that can’t Black Speculative Fiction. His debut poetry easily be blown away.

7 ​Registration Membership Types registration. Membership includes the ability to submit nominations for the There are two types of membership: World Fantasy Awards for 2021 and Attending and Supporting. Either the subsequent two years. Supporting type can be transferred; a supporting memberships may be converted to an membership can be converted into an attending membership if the cap has not attending membership. been reached. Attending Membership Membership Rates Everyone attending the convention (including dealers, artists, and program We take payments in both Canadian participants) or any of its events (CAD) and United States Dollars (USD). must have a valid membership and The current rates are as follows: a badge. Additionally, the purchase Attending memberships. of a membership to World Fantasy USD 250 / CAD 320. Convention 2021 indicates your Supporting memberships. acceptance of and compliance with all USD 50 / CAD 70. convention policies. Please see the Policies page of our website for details. Converting Memberships An attending membership is necessary Supporting memberships may be upgraded for those who plan to attend WFC 2021 to attending memberships as long as in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Attending there are still memberships available. members have access to all convention Conversions will require a fee equal to activities. Each attending member will the difference between attending and receive the souvenir program book, a book supporting memberships. Please contact bag full of books, a name badge, and other registration for details on how to proceed. items offered at registration. Membership Transferring Memberships includes the ability to submit nominations for the World Fantasy Awards for 2021 If you wish to transfer your and the next two years. membership, please send an email to [email protected], or a letter to Please note: attending memberships are our postal address, found on our website. limited in number. Once that limit has been met, interested people will be added Please include your name and contact to a waiting list and contacted as openings information, as well as the name and become available. contact information of the person to whom you wish to transfer your Please watch our website for updated membership. Transfer requests must be membership numbers. received by October 15th, 2021. Supporting Membership A Final Note on Memberships Supporting membership is for those who do not plan to attend the convention. World Fantasy Convention 2021 reserves Supporting members will receive the the right to refuse or refund memberships souvenir program book, book bag, but as deemed appropriate in order to ensure not books, and other items offered at the safety and comfort of all members. 8 Membership List As of February 28th, 2021\ Please note that, as per our privacy policy, if you did not check for your name to be listed in our publications, you name will NOT appear in this list. Steven Addona Brian Emerich Stephen Kotowych Ian Rogers Ken Amos Glen Engel-Cox Udy Kumra Naomi Roth Gray Anderson Jennie Faries Derek Kunsken Frances Rowat Ricky W. Argenbright Elizabeth Farley-Dawson Diane Lacey Ann Marie Rudolph Charlotte Ashley Kat Feete N. R. Lambert Craig Russell Renee Babcock Thomas Fink Dee Larsen (S) Eugen Bacon Jo Fletcher Nicole Lavigne Timothy Sherburn Susan Forest Glennis LeBlanc Linda Shipley Beverly Bambury Barb Galler-Smith Mary Soon Lee Danny Sichel J.E. Benitez (S) Geoff Gander Fred Lerner Michael Skeet AJ Benson Sheila E. Gilbert David D. Levine Mandy Slater Joseph T. Berlant Calin Giurgiu Ruth Lichtwardt Chris Smith Marie Bilodeau Cate Glass S. Qiouyi Lu Ginny Smith Amber M. Bliss Tanya Karen Gough Do-Ming Lum Rosemary C Smith Christopher Bowthorpe Jason T. Jill Lum Davey Snyder (S) Marilyn Mattie Brahen Cathy Green Guest of Rillan macDhai Kevin Standlee Gerald Brandt Nathanael Green Rillan macDhai-Anthony Renee Stern Evan C Braun Dave Gross Carolyn Macdonell Jan Stirling Marie Brennan Costi Gurgu Gloria Magid SM Stirling Alec Brownie Andrea Hairston Beth Marble Willy Brownie Peter Halasz Chris Marble Amanda Sun KT Bryski Gay Haldeman Leah Marsh Michael Tallan Ginjer Buchanan Tod McCoy Dena Bain Taylor Mark A. Buckmaster Guest of Tom Hanlon Ryan McFadden Mireille Theriault Colleen Cahill (S) Tom Hanlon Danny McGrath David To Carrie Callahan Lisa L. Hannett Rati Mehrotra Howard To Caryn Cameron Bill Hately Samuel J Tomaino Lisbeth Campbell Lydia M. Hawke Cary Meriwether Lorna Toolis Brenda Carre Catherine Heartfield James Minz Liza Trombi Gillian Chan R. Z. Held James Moore Jean-Louis Trudel C. B. Channell Alyc Helms Mary Ellen Moore Evonne Tsang Janet “BF” Chase Louise Herring-Jones Matt Moore David Tucker E. L. Chen Ashley Hisson Murray Moore Talon Tucker Debi Chowdhury Chip Hitchcock Cheryl Morgan Tom Underberg Suzanne Church Kenneth Nahigian (S) Denis Valdron Chandra Clarke Keith Hufford Ingrid Neilson Leo Valiquette Cynthia Anne Cofer Cath Jackel Brandon O’Brien Franklin Coleman D. B. Jackson Stella Palikarova Mark Van Name Elizabeth Crowens Kathleen Jennings Shannan Palma Allan Weiss Julie Czerneda Bryan Jones Maree Pavletich Pan Welland Kenneth Kao M. C. Perron Kitka Wiener Vojkovska J. L. Doty Brent Kellmer Tony Pi Robert K. Wiener Karen Doty Michael Kelly Charles Prepolec Edward Willett John R. Douglas Annette Kilworth (S) Kris Prepolec A.C. Wise Sean Dowie (S) Devin Reed (S) Betsy Wollheim KW King Rob Riddell Jason Wyckoff Ian Drury Sean R. Kirk Mike Rimar Karen Zimmerman Donna Dudley Robert Knowlton Robert Roehm (S) Dan Zlotnikov 9 Diversity Statement The committee for the 2021 World to address these problems. We want our Fantasy Convention is unconditionally convention to be a friendly, accepting, devoted to promoting diversity within our comfortable place for BIPOC, queer, convention. We will have a Diversity and disabled, and other marginalized writers Inclusion Committee on programming. and fantasy enthusiasts. We are also actively recruiting people Furthermore, the Montréal World to create better cultural, gender, and Fantasy Convention abhors the community representation across all inequalities Indigenous, Marginalised, aspects of our convention, including the and Historically Underrepresented People Art Show and the Dealers Room. We are are confronted with in policing and other looking at ways to increase diversity and aspects of society around the world, inclusion both in our membership and in including Canada, and we stand with our convention committee and volunteer them. We are committed to ensuring that base. We agree that in the past there all underrepresented people are given have been problems in the handling of equal opportunities to participate in all community concerns regarding sensitive aspects of our convention. and serious issues and we are taking steps Accessibility Statement We are committed to providing to the best The accessible rooms are provided with of our abilities the best possible experience roll-in shower and support bars. The to all our attendees, including those adapted shower chair and toilet bowl can who need visual or auditory interpretive be added. The hotel also offers a 24-hour assistance or have limited mobility, or who phone support. In the rooms the bed side require other assistance. Programming will tables are lower as well as the door handle take place on one fully accessible, recently and the peephole. renovated floor. The Hotel Bonaventure If you don’t require the accessible rooms also has several sleeping rooms modified but, for accessibility reasons, would prefer for accessibility; these rooms can also be a room close to the elevators, we would rented with the adjoining room. be happy to accommodate you. For this, or any other accessibility issues, please contact [email protected]. Code of Conduct World Fantasy exists for the enjoyment detract from the relaxed and comfortable and enrichment of its members and atmosphere of our events. community. Although we believe our is important that you read and members and attendees as a whole are understand this Code. Anyone who attends rational and responsible adults, this Code World Fantasy is expected to follow this of Conduct seeks to ensure that the Code for the entire duration of the event. behavior of any person or group does not disturb the membership as a whole or World Fantasy is prepared to deal with any issues related to the Code in as rapid 10 Code of Conduct and efficient a manner as possible should Upon receipt of a complaint, an they occur. We thank our members authorized committee member will and attendees for their assistance in be delegated to create a report of the making World Fantasy events enjoyable incident, including talking to those experiences for everyone. Have fun – just involved and any witnesses, and work please remember to be courteous to those with the Chair of the convention to around you while doing so! decide on appropriate action. World World Fantasy values free expression of Fantasy will keep private the identities opinions and open discourse; this policy is of persons involved as much as possible, not established to limit those. restricting the identities to those parties with a genuine need to know in order to Behavior Policy perform their duties. Disclosure of any All World Fantasy events should be an identifying information of those involved experience where everyone feels welcomed in a complaint, or details about the and comfortable. complaint, by any staff of World Fantasy, Discrimination (based on, but not limited beyond that described above, without to, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, age, the consent of those involved may be sexual orientation, gender identity, or viewed as harassment and responded to physical/mental disability) is not tolerated. accordingly. World Fantasy will be happy Harassment of any kind is not tolerated. to help participants contact hotel security If someone tells you “no” or asks you to or local law enforcement, provide escorts, leave them alone, your business with them or otherwise assist members to feel safe for is done. the duration of the convention. If you feel that you are being Privacy, Photographs, discriminated against or harassed, and Recording Electronic or if you notice someone behaving Information inappropriately (such as violating hotel Photography and video and/or audio or convention policies), we respectfully recordings are frequently made by World suggest the following: Fantasy during events. The likenesses If you feel comfortable doing so, point of event attendees and members may out the inappropriate behavior to the appear in those recordings. Attendees person(s) involved. Often this will solve and members agree to assign without the problem immediately. compensation the use of their likeness in If you do not feel comfortable talking promotional material. with the person(s) involved or if talking Personal Photography / to them does not resolve the issue, please Recordings: report the situation immediately. Try to provide a name, badge name/number and/ Please be polite and ask before taking or physical description of the person(s) photographs or recordings of attendees involved. Note that we need to know and members whenever possible. during the event about any incidents in Remember that just because someone is order to take action. in costume does not mean that they are

11 Code of Conduct automatically granting permission to be - Involving hotel or facility staff or security photographed. Video and audio recording - Contacting local law enforcement and photography for personal archival - Banning of attendance at and use only is generally acceptable unless membership in World Fantasy, including individuals make it clear that they do not any post-World Fantasy events. want to be photographed or recorded. In Interpretation that case, any photographing or recording World Fantasy reserves the right to amend them is expressly forbidden. these rules at any time without prior or Revocation of Membership posted notice and reserves the sole right of World Fantasy reserves the right to revoke interpretation. Please keep in mind that membership from and eject anyone at any these rules involve, of course, “worst-case” time from a World Fantasy event without scenarios and are put in place to ensure a refund. the safety and comfort of our members. They are not all-inclusive; in all cases, the Failure to adhere to any of these policies singular rule that supersedes all others may result in possible consequences that is, “Any action or behavior that is illegal include but are not limited to: or causes significant interference with - Talking with all parties involved and event operations, excessive discomfort attempting to mediate a solution to other attendees, or adversely affects - Issuing verbal warnings World Fantasy’s relationship with its - Revoking memberships and requesting guests, its venue, or the public isstrictly that the person(s) leave the event forbidden and may result in revocation of membership privileges.” Privacy Policy This policy includes information on what convention acts to ensure that all personal data World Fantasy Convention 2021 data is: (WFC 2021) collects, how we collect - Collected for lawful purposes it, and how we use it. The personal - Processed legally and fairly information collected by WFC 2021 - Relevant and not excessive is stored and managed in compliance - Kept up to date for accuracy with Canada’s Personal Information - Kept secure Protection and Electronic Documents Act - Only accessed by authorised WFC 2021 (PIPEDA). staff Changes to this Policy - Not shared without permission WFC 2021 may change this policy. When How we Use this Data changes are made, we will update our In order to conduct the business of WFC website with the changes. 2021, we collect personal data submitted General Information to us by people who interact with our convention in order to provide the agreed In regard to the storage and management upon services and to share information and of the data collected by WFC 2021, the updates regarding our services and events. 12 Privacy Policy Personal Data to our convention-wide do not contact WFC 2021’s personal data includes (DNC) list please email . Please be aware information, facts, and interests that this will mean that, with the exception of identify and are tied to living people, urgent access information (information including such things as name, contact such as instructions how to gain access information, and professional history. to the convention venue, pick up your Sensitive and personal data, as defined by membership or any urgent issues related PIPEDA, may also be collected from some to either) you will NOT be contacted individuals. electronically by WFC 2021. This includes Pre-Con Information such as Required Data Chair Updates, Progress Reports, Hotel A variety of data types may be requested Information, World Fantasy Awards, and and collected for use by WFC 2021 for other relevant Pre- Con Information. verification purposes. This also includes Divisional level items For potential programme participants, such Programme, Access, Exhibits, World Programme also requests information Fantasy Awards, Promotions etc. about areas of interest and experience in Destroying Data order to place participants on programme All data collected on individuals will items. be changed, deleted, or modified upon Sensitive Data request. In addition, personal data in the Sensitive data is collected for the purposes WFC 2021 systems will be deleted twenty- of making health basedaccommodations, five months after the convention unless we enhancing diversity, and identifying have a legal requirement to retain it. topics of a sensitive nature that potential Securing Data programme participants would be Data collected by us will be stored comfortable talking about as part of the securely and managed through WFC 2021 programme. Sensitive data appropriate protections. Our staff has may include such things as racial or ethnic been instructed of this policy and are in origin, political opinions, religious or compliance with PIPEDA guidelines. philosophical beliefs, disability or medical needs, etc. Data Processing Any member may also request to have All third-party data processors contracted their personal information changed and/ by WFC 2021, which store, access, and or deleted in the WFC 2021 data systems house information via cloud services, on by contacting from the email address that websites, in apps, etc. will be compliant we have on file to make their request. with relevant data regulations. Unsubscribe from Email Contact Any member may subscribe from If you have any questions about this policy any mailing list at any time. Simply or WFC 2021’s data policies, please contact respond to sender and clearly request WFC 2021 at [email protected]. to unsubscribe. If you wish to be added

13 Programme at World Fantasy The World Fantasy program is focused demographic information at the end of primarily on literature and art in the the survey. All answers will be kept strictly genres of fantasy and horror. This year confidential. we are turning our lens toward young You must have a membership for WFC adult literature with our theme - Fantasy, 2021 in order to participate in programme. Imagination, and the Dreams of Youth. Suggest a program item! Do You have a We are now accepting both applications for great idea for the World Fantasy Montréal participating in the WFC programme and programme? We are looking for panel and programme ideas! pre-convention workshop ideas! Apply to be a program participant! If you Please fill out this form with as much detail are interested in participating on a panel, about the idea as possible. We welcome fully giving a reading or hosting one of our pre- formed ideas as well as general concepts or convention writing workshops, you will ideas. need to fill out this form. We are looking for detailed responses to all questions so Filling out the form does not guarantee the that we can choose the best people for our idea will make the final programme. If your programming items. idea becomes part of the final programme, we will choose the panelists we think are World Fantasy Montréal is committed best suited for it. Please keep your eye on the to diverse panelist representation on our World Fantasy website for updates regarding programme items. To help us do that, programming selection. please consider filling in the OPTIONAL Art Show Artists exhibiting at the 2021 World Fantasy Art Show Reception Convention Art Show are selected by jury. The customary art show reception will be The deadline for artist applications will held on Saturday evening, November 6th. st be June 1 2021. Further instructions and Come and enjoy the work of all our artists. application forms will be posted on our Refreshments will be served throughout the webpage. Please contact the Art Show Head reception. at [email protected] if you have any questions. Dealers’ Room The World Fantasy Convention Dealers As we are still in uncertain pandemic times, Room is juried and devoted almost entirely part of this convention will be digital. And to books and art. Books are given priority, to those digital goers we’ll offer virtual preferably new or collector’s editions. Art shopping appointments! Do you want to see and art quality hand-made jewelry may also the tables of dealers’ merch safely through a be included. The number of tables is limited screen? We’re going to have someone who’s and submitting an application does not ready to go around for you as a virtual guarantee a spot in the dealers’ room. shopping assistant to make sure you get to Dealers whose applications are accepted browse for the merchandise you want to go and the persons working at tables must buy with enjoying convention events from the memberships to the convention. comfort of your home.

14 Book Bags All attending members of World Fantasy Furthermore, if you register with a Conventions receive a complimentary bag of companion, please let the staff know. They fantasy and science fiction books that have may be able to pick from different bag piles been donated by publishers or authors. The to increase the odds that you and your contents of each bag are luck of the draw. companion get more variety. There is one exception to this rule. If you are We understand that different people have on-site Wednesday afternoon and help for at different tastes. A book exchange table will least three hours sorting the boxes of books be located near Registration. Place the books and filling book bags, you may fill your own that you do not want on the table, and book bag. exchange them for ones you prefer. World Fantasy Banquet and Awards Ceremony The annual World Fantasy Banquet will take be working closely with the hotel to assure place in the afternoon on Sunday November that those with special dietary needs are 7th, the final day of the convention. accommodated. Tickets to the banquet are not included There will be space to allow members that in your membership but are an optional, do not attend the banquet to watch the additional cost. Detailed information World Fantasy Awards Ceremony following regarding the banquet and tickets will be the banquet. available closer to the convention. We will Mass Autograph Signing The traditional mass autographing session will continue until midnight, or until the will be held on Friday evening, November signers and seekers of autographs are done, 5th. Each member of WFC 2021 will be whichever comes first. Refreshments will be provided a name tent so that those who wish served throughout the signing. may sign autographs. The Mass Signing World Fantasy Award Ballots All registered 2019, 2020, and 2021 this Progress Report and will be mailed WFC members are eligible to nominate separately to those eligible to nominate but for the 2020 World Fantasy Awards. not yet members of the 2020 convention. The nomination form is included with Submissions for World Fantasy Awards The judges for the 2021 World Fantasy deliberations conclude. Anything received Awards, for work published in 2020, have after June 1st, 2021 will receive little or no now been empanelled. The judges read and consideration. consider eligible materials received between For contact information and st now and June 1 , 2021, the earlier the preferred formats on submitting work better. If, for instance, a work is received for consideration, please contact st on May 31 , 2021 the judges may well [email protected]. have only one day to read it before their

15 About Montréal Situated on an island in the St. Lawrence Montréal is home to more than river, Montréal is the largest city in the 30 museums, covering arts, science, and province of Québec and North America’s history, including the Montréal Museum largest French speaking city and the of Fine Arts, home to one of the richest, second largest French speaking city in most encyclopedic permanent collections the world, after Paris. However, most in North America. Visitors can also enjoy Montréalers – especially downtown – are visits of Old Montréal, walks in the bilingual so getting by if you only speak Botanical Garden or on Mont-Royal. English will be no problem. The city has In addition, Montréal has the highest been a destination for many immigrants number of restaurants per capita in and is widely considered to be one of Canada and the second highest in North North America’s most cosmopolitan cities. America. The restaurant scene is very Unquestionably modern with all of its cosmopolitan with menus from around the old-world charm, Montréal remains a city world. of great allure, vivacity, and fun. We look forward to welcoming you in 2021! Hotel World Fantasy Convention 2021 will Our room rate is CAD 209 per night, be held at Hôtel Bonaventure Montréal. plus local tax which is currently 3.5% It is a 4 star hotel located in downtown Occupancy Tax, 5% Goods & Services Tax, Montréal that has an outdoor heated pool and 9.975% Provincial. Hotel parking is open all year round! Each room has a view currently CAD 24 per day self-parking for on the gardens or the city. All rooms at the hotel guests; Valet parking is also available, hotel have an ergonomic work area and currently at CAD 39 per day. Earliest free high-speed Internet access. Winner of check‑in is on October 31st and latest several awards for its high level of quality departure is November 11th. and service, the hotel continues to maintain Hotel reservations are now available. See its distinctive personality and character. The https://www.wfc2021.org/hotel/hotel- Bonaventure Montréal has 2 restaurants, a information for relevant links. Cancellations bar and an executive lounge. are allowed with no penalty up to 72 hours The Hôtel Bonaventure Montréal is located prior to the arrival date. at 900 de la Gauchetière West, Montréal, Suites Available Québec, H5A 1E4. And has 397 spacious rooms and suites offering an exceptional If you are interested in a suite, we have view of downtown Montréal or the a few available that we are releasing landscaped gardens. All rooms and suites to our membership. Please contact offer a smoke-free environment. They also [email protected] for more information feature a work desk with ergonomic chair, and pricing. a safe as well as several amenities to ensure comfort and simplicity at its best.

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