SFContario is pleased to announce two guests for our 2015 convention, Peter Watts and Tom Smith.
SFContario: Toronto's Autumn Science Fiction Convention
SFContario 6 will be held November 20-22, 2015
at the Ramada Plaza Hotel, 300 Jarvis St, Toronto, ON
and will also be the host of Canvention 35
Welcome!
Come join us at SFContario 6 for three days of fannish fun and multi-track programming, including:
Art Show ♦ Dealers Room ♦ Panels
Author Readings ♦ Writers Workshop
Fan Tables ♦ Parties ♦ Con Suite
and more!
SFContario 6 Guests of Honour
Music Guest of Honour
Tom Smith
Canvention Guest of Honour
Peter Watts
Additional Guests of Honour
TBA
Our latest news
Flash Fiction Challenge
Come to a one-of-a-kind flash fiction slam. Participate as audience or as performer/writer. Flash fiction performances in any style are welcome from 500-1000 words.
Writers: Leave your entries at the registration desk by 4:00 p.m. Saturday, then come to the slam ready to read. Winners will be chosen Saturday night by our live audience.
Program schedule posted online
SFContario 5's program schedule has been posted to the website. Items on literature, science, media, music, and more! Have a look at the schedule and plan your weekend with us.
Editor Guest of Honour: Eric Choi
SFContario announces Eric Choi as our Editor Guest of Honour. Choi is co-editor (with Derwin Mak) of The Dragon and the Stars, the Aurora Award-winning anthology of short stories from the ethnic Chinese diaspora across North America and around the world. Choi is also co-editor, with Ben Bova, of Carbide Tipped Pens, a hard SF anthology coming from Tor Books in December 2014.
Toronto Arts Council Grant
SFContario is delighted to announce that the Toronto Arts Council has offered a grant of $4,500 to SFContario under the TAC program for literary organizations. SFContario is organizing a reading series which we are calling the Hydra's Hearth, featuring several Toronto-area authors. As an event funded by the City of Toronto, the Hydra's Hearth reading series itself will be open to the public.