A regional listing of science fiction conventions for the following areas:

Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Eastern Nebraska, Northern Illinois, Northern Missouri, Northeastern Kansas, Southeastern Manitoba and Southwestern Ontario

News:

1. Information for the 2010 Diversicon and 2011 Capricon has been announced.
2. The version of this page at visi.com is dead.
3. Major update to the page with information on 2010 conventions.
4. Information for the 2010 DemiCon has been announced.
5. The FAQ list for this page has been updated.
6. Information for the 2010 Capricon has been announced.
7. Information for the 2010 MarsCon and Minicon has been announced.

Conventions:

• SuperCon February 4-6, 2011 Country Inn & Suites, Hastings, MN
  
• Capricon February 10-13, 2011 Westin Chicago North Shore, Wheeling, IL
  GoH: John Scalzi, John Picacio, Janice Gelb, Stephen Boucher
  
• MarsCon March 5-7, 2010 Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites, Bloomington, MN
  GoH: Gwynyth Walsh, John Garner, Loretta McKibben, The Nick Atoms
  
• WillyCon April 9-11, 2010, Wayne, NE
  GoH: David J. Williams, Sarah Clemens, Daniel C. Nielsen, Sam Schrant & Rachel Martin
  
• Minicon April 2-4, 2010, Sheraton Bloomington Hotel, Minneapolis South, Bloomington, MN
  PD: March 10, 2010
  HRD: March 10, 2010
  GoH: Brandon Sanderson, Dan Dos Santos
  
• Odyssey Con April 16-18, 2010, Radisson Hotel Madison Madison, WI
  GoH: Harry Turtledove, Tobias Buckell, Monte Cook
  
• DemiCon May 14-16, 2010, Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites Des Moines-Northwest Des Moines, IA
  GoH: Karl Schroeder, Don Maitz, Gregg Parmentier TM: Tadoa Tomomatsu
  
• Keycon May 22-24, 2010 Radisson Hotel Winnipeg Downtown, Winnipeg, MB
  GoH: Julie Czerneda, S. M. Stirling, Cliff Simon, Kari Ann Anderson, The Great Luke Ski and Worm Quartet, Nalo Hopkinson, Rene Willing & Robbie Bourget
  
• ConQuesT May 28-30, 2010, Kansas City, MO
  GoH: Michael Swanwick, Toni Weisskopf, Peri Charlifu, Geri Sullivan
  
• WisCon May 27-31, 2010, The Madison Concourse Hotel, Madison, WI
  PD: April 30, 2010
  GoH: Mary Anne Mohanraj, Nnedi Okorafor
  
• DucKon June 18-20, 2010 Naperville Holiday Inn Select, Naperville, IL
  GoH: Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, Talis Kimberley, Scott Raun
  
• CONvergence July 1-4, 2010 Sheraton Bloomington Hotel, Minneapolis South, Bloomington, MN
  PD: May 15, 2010
  GoH: L. A. Banks, Jeremy Bulloch, Paul Cornell, Bridget Landry, Chuck McCann, Wally Wingert
  
• Diversicon July 30-August 1, 2010 Best Western Bandana Square, St. Paul, MN
  PD: March 15, 2010/July 14, 2010
  HRD: July 9, 2010
  GoH: William F. Wu
  
• Arcana October 15-17, 2010 Best Western Bandana Square, St. Paul, MN
  GoH: Caitlin R. Kiernan
  
• ICON November 5-7, 2010 Cedar Rapids Marriott, Cedar Rapids, IA
  GoH: Cory Doctorow
  
• Contraception, Kansas City, MO
  
• WindyCon, Lombard, IL
  
• OmegaCon November 12-14, 2010 The Lodge at Crooked Lake, Siren, WI
  PD: October 15, 2010
  

• Definitions:

  PD

  Preregistration Deadline

  HRD

  Hotel Reservation Deadline

  GoH

  Guest(s) of Honor

  TM

  Toastmaster

Worldcon and NASFiC Info:

• The World Science Fiction Society
• Aussiecon 4 September 2-6, 2010 Melbourne, VIC, AU
• Renovation August 17-21, 2010 Reno, NV USA

Convention Lists:

• Locus Online: Convention Listings
• Picofarad's recurring convention list
• Wilf's International SF Convention Listings
• Ansible International Convention List
• LexFA: SF & Fantasy Convention Links
• Southern Fandom Resource Guide
• Northeast Science Fiction Conventions
• Northwest Science Fiction Conventions
• Wikipedia List of science fiction conventions

Convention Reports:

• Con Report: Minicon 39 by Becca
• Con Report: MiniCon by Becca
• CONvergence by Becca
• Cthulhu Coffee at CONvergence 2000 by Melissa Kaercher
• Cthulhu Coffee at CONvergence 2001 by Melissa Kaercher
• Cthulhu Coffee at Diversicon 2001 by Melissa Kaercher
• Cthulhu Coffee at Marscon 2002 by Melissa Kaercher
• Cthulhu Coffee at CONvergence 2002 by Melissa Kaercher
• Cthulhu Coffee at Supercon 9 by Melissa Kaercher
• Cthulhu Coffee at CONvergence 2003 by Melissa Kaercher
• Minicon 33 by Leigh Kimmel
• Rachel at Convergence 2004 by Rachel Kronick
• Minicon Diary by Dave Langford
• MarsCon 2001 Mission Report by Sqo'tty MacKlingon
• CONvergence 2001 Mission Report by Sqo'tty MacKlingon
• CONvergence Con Report (Day 1, Friday), CONvergence Report Days 2 and 3: Saturday and Sunday by Kelly McCullough
• A Pirate's Eye View of Minicon 30 by Michael Nelson
• Minicon 35: Photos and Words. by Erik V. Olson
• Flashback! Conreport by DavE Romm
• Minicon 32 Moments by DavE Romm
• I Survived Minicon; Part I, Part II, Part III by Laramie Sasseville
• Minicon 2005 by Laramie Sasseville
• MiniCon 2006 by Laramie Sasseville

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