http://www.wfc2012.org/ New details of the World Fantasy Convention 2012 have been posted. Copyright 2010-12 The Copper Cylinder Arts and Letters Association en-us http://www.wfc2012.org/jpgs/wfcspot.gif http://www.wfc2012.org/ Site News Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:00:00 GMT http://www.wfc2012.org/membership01.html More names have been added to the list of Attending Members of World Fantasy Convention 2012. Site News Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:00:00 GMT http://www.wfc2012.org/pr-grid01.html For details on the confirmed Panels and their participants, author Readings and Interviews, along with details of where special events such as the Mass Autographing, a PDF of the grid has been posted. Site News Sat, 22 Sep 2012 11:00:00 GMT http://www.wfc2012.org/pr-artshow01.html A list of those Attending Members of World Fantasy Convention 2012 exhibiting in the Art Show has been posted. Site News Sat, 22 Sep 2012 11:00:00 GMT http://www.wfc2012.org/pr-dealers01.html A list of those Attending Members of World Fantasy Convention 2012 exhibiting in the Dealer Room has been posted. Site News Tue, 7 Aug 2012 11:00:00 GMT http://www.wfc2012.org/pr-wfawards01.html The eligibility of the nominated material published in 2011 or having a 2011 cover date has been determined, all of the reader nomination ballots have been counted, the judges have added their choices and the World Fantasy Awards Ballot is ready. Site News Sat, 22 Sep 2012 11:00:00 GMT http://www.wfc2012.org/hotel01.html A block of rooms are now available at both the Hilton Garden Inn which is just across the street from the Sheraton and the Holiday Inn Express & Suites which is within walking distance.. Site News Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:00:00 GMT http://www.wfc2012.org/pr-lifetimeawards01.html The convention is pleased to announce that the 2012 World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Awards will be presented to Alan Garner and George R.R. Martin. The awards will take place on Sunday, November 4, following the afternoon banquet. Site News Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:00:00 GMT http://www.wfc2012.org/progress-reports01.html Here you will find a PDF download to Progress Report #1 as well as the nomination ballot for the World Fantasy awards. We look forward to seeing you in November! Site News Thu, 9 Feb 2012 11:00:00 GMT http://www.wfc2012.org/pr-dealers01.html If you are interested in selling or exhibiting in the Dealers' Room, prices are as follows: The first table will be $125 CAD with each subsequent table booked costing $100 CAD. In order to accommodate as many dealers as possible, each dealer will be initially limited to a maximum of three tables. More than three tables may be available in exceptional circumstances. Visit the web site for futher details. Site News Thu, 9 Feb 2012 11:00:00 GMT http://www.wfc2012.org/pr-artshow01.html If you have previously exhibited in a World Fantasy Convention Art Show in 2 of the last 4 years, have been a Guest of Honour at a World Fantasy Convention, have been a World Fantasy Award winner, you are exempt from the jury selection process. You may apply without any further steps. For all others, visit the web site for details. Site News Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:00:00 GMT http://www.wfc2012.org/pr-banquet01.html The World Fantasy Awards will be presented Sunday, November 4, following the afternoon banquet. Seating will begin at 12:30pm and the banquet itself will begin at 1pm. Banquet tickets cost $70 CDN per person. Site News Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:00:00 GMT http://www.wfc2012.org/goh-patriciabriggs01.html Patricia Briggs is a prevarication professional. She lies for a living, telling whoppers and fibs so outrageous that people pay her to fib some more. Her only concession to honesty is that she tells people she's lying to them. And that is what separates a fiction author from a politician. Site News Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:00:00 GMT http://www.wfc2012.org/goh-mercedeslackey01.html Mercedes Lackey was born on June 24, 1950, in Chicago, IL, and graduated from Purdue University in 1972. During the late 70s, she worked as an artist's model and then went into the computer programming field, ending up with American Airlines in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In addition to her fantasy writing, she has written lyrics for and recorded nearly fifty songs for Firebird Arts & Music, a small recording company specializing in science fiction folk music. Site News Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:00:00 GMT http://www.wfc2012.org/goh-larrydixon01.html Larry Dixon is the son of a Delta Force career commando and an Oklahoman farmgirl. He grew up in many American and European settings, usually haunting the local art museums and hobby stores. At age 9, he saved up his babysitting money and bought his first typewriter, intent upon writing and illustrating his own novels. Northern Italy is where his passions for painting, sculpting and storytelling took root, as well as his interests in state-level diplomacy, early computers and rocketry. Site News Fri, 1 Jul 2011 11:00:00 GMT http://www.wfc2012.org/goh-charlesdelint01.html Charles de Lint is widely credited with having pioneered the contemporary fantasy genre. With 35 novels and 18 books of short fiction published to date, he is known as a master in his field. Site News Fri, 1 Jul 2011 11:00:00 GMT http://www.wfc2012.org/registration01.html A full ATTENDING MEMBERSHIP is currently $175 CDN (international rates will automatically be converted at the current exchange rate via PayPal) and a SUPPORTING MEMBERSHIP is $50 CDN. Site News Sun, 2 Jan 2011 11:00:00 GMT http://www.wfc2012.org/goh-tanyahuff01.html Tanya Huff moved to rural Ontario with her partner Fiona Patton and began writing science fiction and fantasy full-time -- or as full-time as possible around the needs of nine cats and eighty acres of land. Her twenty-five books range from heroic fantasy (the Quarters books) through humour (the Keeper Chronicles) to military SF (the Torin Kerr Confederation series) and include Scholar of Decay a novel set in TSR's Ravenloft universe as well as four short story collections. Site News Fri, 5 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT http://www.wfc2012.org/goh-elizabethhand01.html Elizabeth Hand grew up in Yonkers and Pound Ridge, New York, oldest of five children and twenty-four cousins in a close-knit family, Irish Catholic New Yorkers on her father's side, Texans and Oklahomans on her mother's. She decided to become a writer in 1962, when she was five years old, after seeing The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, where the dying Wilhelm Grimm (Laurence Harvey) is saved by the magical intervention of the fairytale characters he had written about. Site News Fri, 5 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT http://www.wfc2012.org/goh-johnclute01.html From 1956 until 1964 John Clute lived in the USA. Since 1968 he has lived primarily in London. Much of his time since 1975 has been given to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1979; second edition 1993; online edition 2011) with Peter Nicholls and latterly David Langford. He also did The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997) with John Grant which won the World Fantasy Award. Site News Fri, 5 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT http://www.wfc2012.org/goh-richardkirk01.html Richard A. Kirk is a visual artist, illustrator, and author. He was born in Kingston Upon Hull, England in 1962, but has lived in Canada for most of his life. He exhibits throughout North America and Europe, and has works in many private collections throughout the world. He has illustrated works numerous authors including, Clive Barker, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Christopher Golden, China Mieville, and others. Richard also created the artwork for the eighth release by the international rock band Korn. Site News Fri, 5 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT http://www.wfc2012.org/goh-garywolfe01.html Gary K. Wolfe, Professor of Humanities and English at Roosevelt University and a contributing editor for Locus magazine, is the author of dozens of essays and more than 1200 reviews, as well as many critical studies. His Soundings: Reviews 1992-1996 (Beccon Press, 2005) received the British Science Fiction Association Award for nonfiction, and was nominated for a Hugo Award. Site News Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:00:00 GMT http://www.wfc2012.org/theme01.html The dual themes of World Fantasy 2012 are Northern Gothic Fantasy and Urban Fantasy. Programming will springboard from definitions/discussions in The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997) edited by John Clute and John Grant. Site News Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:00:00 GMT http://www.wfc2012.org/hotel01.html The convention will be held at the Sheraton Parkway Toronto North Hotel, Suites & Conference Centre. It shares conference facilities with a Best Western. The 312-room Sheraton Parkway (room rate is $139 CDN) is a full service hotel offering luxurious rooms and Jacuzzi suites in two towers. Guests of the 129-room Best Western (room rate is $109 CDN) are entitled to use most of the amenities of the Sheraton. Site News Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:00:00 GMT http://www.wfc2012.org/committee01.html Peter Halasz, the convention chair, would like to introduce the committee who will bring you the 2012 World Fantasy Convention.