Chessiecon
A convention, founded in 1978 as Darkover Grand Council (often called Darkovercon or Darkover), and starting in 2014, renamed Chessiecon, which is held in the Mid-Atlantic states and is devoted to fantasy.
It is currently on hiatus, with a February 26, 2023, decision not to hold the convention in 2023 due to financial and volunteer issues. The con did not make its room block commitment in 2022 and were attempting to raise $11,000 through contributions; they had garnered less than $6,000 as of August 2023.
Judy Gerjuoy founded Darkover Grand Council and ran it (and funded its deficits) for 35 years until she died in early 2013. In its early days, it was centered around Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover series, and she and Katherine Kurtz were frequent guests. The first two conventions were held in July in New York City, after which it moved to Thanksgiving Weekend and down to Wilmington, Delaware, and eventually Maryland.
The final Darkovercon was a blowout celebration and it the following year it became Chessiecon, which is sponsored by the Thanksgiving Science Fiction Society.
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