Norwescon 36 Election Season is Here!
Hello Norwescon ConCom members! It’s election season again — for Norwescon 36 (2013)!
The next Norwescon meeting (February 18) will be your first chance to nominate candidates for the offices of Chairman (Chair) and Vice-Chairman (Vice-Chair) and for the two slots on the Guest of Honor Selection Committee (GOH Committee).
February ConCom Meeting
Would you like to help plan, organize, and create the Pacific Northwest’s premier science-fiction and fantasy convention? Norwescon is always looking for volunteers, and our monthly Convention Committee planning meetings are a great way to get involved! Come pull back the curtain, meet the masterminds behind the event, and find out where your particular talents can be put to use!
Note: This meeting will be your first chance to nominate candidates for the offices of Chairman (Chair) and Vice-Chairman (Vice-Chair) and for the two slots on the Guest of Honor Selection Committee (GOH Committee). For more details, please see this post.
November’s Norwescon 35 planning meeting will be held:
DATE
Saturday, February 18th, 2012
TIME
10:00 a.m.–12:00 noon: Executive Team Meeting
12:00 noon–1:00 p.m.: Lunch break
1:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m.: Convention Committee (ConCom) Meeting
PLACE
Doubletree by Hilton Hotel Seattle Airport
18740 Pacific Highway South
SeaTac, WA 98188
206-246-8600
For directions and a map, please see the hotel’s website.
NOTE: There is a discounted charge of $8.00 for parking.
Please consult the hotel readerboard when you arrive for the location of the meeting room.
FUTURE EVENTS
- March meeting: 3/17/2012
- Norwescon 35: 4/5-8/2012
- Post Con Meeting: 5/12/2012
Stuffing Party!
You’re invited to a party!
The Norwescon Stuffing Party will be held Sunday, April 1 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Seattle Airport at 1 p.m. The room will be on the daily meeting boards at the hotel entrances. Stuffing should be over by 4:00 PM at the latest.
Please join us for fun and games as we take pieces of paper, paperback books, buttons, and coupons and marry them together to form the packets that everybody receives at Registration. The more people we have, the faster it will go. Be the first in your neighborhood to see what sort of goodies everyone will receive. Cop a button or two advertising the next big movie. We might even have the latest programming grids on the wall for your perusal.
Working at the stuffing party counts towards hours worked at the con. Norwescon volunteers receive perks like early seating at the Masquerade and are entered into drawings for many items donated by Norwescon dealers. The drawings take place early Sunday afternoon of the con.
Please note: People attending the Stuffing Party will have to pay for their own parking. Parking should be $8.
If you or your organization has fliers or other material that you wish to include in the packets, you may either arrange to get them to the Norwescon Transportation Department by Thursday, March 29, or bring them to the hotel yourself by noon on April 1.
For more information on contributing your own material, keep reading…
2011 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees Announced
The judges of the 2011 Philip K. Dick Award and the Philadelphia SF Society, along with the Philip K. Dick Trust, are pleased to announce seven nominated works that comprise the final ballot for the award:
- A SOLDIER’S DUTY by Jean Johnson (Ace Books)
- AFTER THE APOCALYPSE by Maureen F. McHugh (Small Beer Press)
- DEADLINE by Mira Grant (Orbit)
- THE COMPANY MAN by Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit)
- THE OTHER by Matthew Hughes (Underland Press)
- THE POSTMORTAL by Drew Magary (Penguin Books)
- THE SAMUIL PETROVICH TRILOGY by Simon Morden (Orbit)
First prize and any special citations will be announced on Friday, April 6, 2012 at Norwescon 35 at the Doubletree Seattle Airport Hotel, SeaTac, Washington.
The Philip K. Dick Award is presented annually with the support of the Philip K. Dick Trust for distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States. The award is sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and the Philip K. Dick Trust and the award ceremony is sponsored by the NorthWest Science Fiction Society. Last year’s winner was THE STRANGE AFFAIR OF SPRING HEELED JACK by Mark Hodder (Pyr) with a special citation to HARMONY by Project Itoh (Haikasoru). The 2011 judges are Scott Baker (chair), Mark Budz, Roby James, Darrell Schweitzer, and Alice K. Turner.
For more information, contact the award administration: David G. Hartwell (914) 769-5545 or Gordon Van Gelder (201) 876-2551.
For more information about the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society: www.psfs.org or contact Gary Feldbaum (215) 665-5752.
For more information about the Philip K. Dick Trust: www.philipkdick.com.
For more information about Norwescon: https://www.norwescon.org/ or contact the NorthWest SF Society (425) 686-9737.
New Year Updates
Happy New Year, and welcome to 2012!
First things first: Pre-registration rates for Norwescon 35 go up on Sunday! If you haven’t registered yet, and want to make sure you get in at the current rate of $55 for four full fun-packed days, don’t dawdle! Register today!
We’ve rolled out a number of updates to the website over the holiday weeks. If you’re following us on Twitter, Facebook, or Google Plus, you may already know some of this — but you might not know all of it! So, here’s what we rolled out over the past week or so….
We’ve started listing attending vendors and artists on our Artists’ Alley, Art Show and Dealers’ Room pages. The Dealer’s Room is now fully booked, but we are still accepting applications for both the Artists’ Alley and Art Show. Those will fill up eventually, though, so if you’re still thinking about it…don’t think too long, or you just might miss out!
Our December e-Newsletter update went out. This is often the first place we’ll make announcements, so if you’re not on our mailing list, sign up today!
Our Norwescon 34 post-convention report also went out. This goes out the old-fashioned way — ink on paper through the U.S. Mail — but you’re more than welcome to download the .pdf version (493KB .pdf) for convenient viewing on the electronic device of your choice!
We have a ton of programming lined up for the musically inclined, whether you’re a music creator or just like to listen and dance! Our concert lineup of filk, chiptune, geek folk, and all sorts of gloriously geeky beats is live, complete with samples of some of the artists you can look forward to seeing perform this year. In addition, we wanted to give those of you into performing some time to prepare for the more participatory events, so we’ve also listed our events and workshops.
Our Sunday Special Event has been unveiled: Muggle Quidditch! Get that broom ready to go, practice dodging bludgers, and get ready to catch that golden snitch!
All of our attending pros and panelists are now also live on the site.
And finally, in a bit of a blast from the past, all of our photos from last year’s Norwescon 34 are posted to our Flickr account. Stop by, look for faces you know, relive some memories, and look forward to what’s coming in just a few short months!
That wraps it up for our holiday season updates. Of course, there’s much, much more to come as we move ever closer to Norwescon 35!
