FOGcon

A convention in the Bay Area since 2011 which is "a literary-themed, conversational West Coast SF/F con. Each year we chose a new theme and invite Honored Guests (ranging from writers to scientists and artists) whose work exemplifies the theme."

The "FOG" in FOGcon is a pun on Bay Area fogs and the acronym for Friends of Genre (along with the Speculative Literature Foundation) one of the two sponsoring organizations.

It apparently went into hiatus during the Covid-19 pandemic, running a series of small online events and hopes to run an entirely online convention in 2023. One or both of its sponsoring organizations appears to be shutting down.

Convention	Dates	GoHs	Theme
FOGcon 1	March 11-13, 2011	Pat Murphy, Jeff VanderMeer, Fritz Leiber	The City in Speculative Fiction
FOGcon 2	March 30-April 1, 2012	Nalo Hopkinson, Shelley Jackson, Mary Shelley	The Body
FOGcon 2013	March 8-10, 2013	Terry Bisson, Susan R. Matthews, Anthony Boucher	Law, Order, and Crime
FOGcon 2014	2014	Seanan McGuire, Tim Powers, James Tiptree, Jr.	Secrets
FOGcon 2015	March 6-8, 2015	Kim Stanley Robinson, Catherynne M. Valente, Joanna Russ	The Traveller
FOGcon 6	March 4-6, 2016	Jo Walton, Ted Chiang, Donna Haraway, Octavia Butler	Transformations
FOGcon 7	March 10-12, 2017	Delia Sherman, Ayize Jama-Everett, Iain M. Banks	Interstitial Spaces
FOGcon 8	2018	Andrea Hairston, Ada Palmer, Thomas M. Disch	Performance in SF&F
FOGcon 9	2019	Becky Chambers, Karen Joy Fowler, Ursula K. Le Guin	Friendship
FOGcon 10	March 6-8, 2020	Nisi Shawl, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Terry Pratchett	Turning Points

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