Thanks to our very kind sponsors, Orbit Australia and Gollancz Australia, members of Swancon Thirty Six | Natcon Fifty are invited to attend a cocktail party before the presentation of awards for the best works of science fiction and fantasy in Australia for 2010 ( Read more... )

The NAFF race is off and running. I've included the announcement below. NAFF is a really fantastic project which enables fans to make an interstate convention when perhaps they otherwise might not have been able. This year Rachel Holkner is the nominee and it would be truly a travesty if she were not at Natcon. Whilst voting might seem less ( Read more... )

We're updating the Swancon website all the time - if you want to keep up with what's happening for the con, I totally recommend signing up for the feed over at the website.

Information about the Dealer's Room is now available and tables can now be purchased.

Also, we have an ongoing series that's just started on Retro-futurism (the theme of our ( Read more... )

For those who do not hang out at the Swancon LJ community and haven't signed up for the Swancon RSS Feed to get all your up to the minute and live updates on *things*, you might be interested in registering to participate in all manner of programme related activities. Cruise on past the Swancon website http://2011.swancon.com.au/ and fill in the ( Read more... )

In case you have not seen it elsewhere, we've released our call for academic papers for presentation at Swancon Thirty Six:

Call for Papers:

Natcon Fifty | Swancon Thirty Six Academic Program

21-25 April 2011, Hyatt Hotel, Adelaide Tce, Perth

Future Imperfect

What, if anything, can sf teach us about the future? It has become commonplace to argue that ( Read more... )

Pop past our website and register your interest to participate in the Swancon 36/Natcon 50 Program.

We want to hear from you!


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Swancon Thirty Six | Natcon Fifty is now 7 months away. We've been busy preparing the framework for one of the best cons ever at the beautiful and spacious Hyatt. Now we want to hear from you.Share your ideas for presentations, discussions, panels and entertainment events, suggest awesome people who may not volunteer themselves, and tell us what ( Read more... )

I'm not sure I could even cover all that happened at Aussiecon 4 but here will contain random snippets and photos as I remember!

Here is the Swancon/Natcon table in the dealers room before we got our flyers:


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Over on Twitter, @Natcon50 has been tweeting the artists who will be featured in the Future Imperfect Art Show at Swancon 36/Natcon 50 next year.

Natcon Fifty will host ʻFuture Imperfect: Exploring the future from the pastʼ, a semi-professional art show to be held over the Easter weekend in 2011 in Perth, Western Australia ( Read more... )

Just a bit of a prompt that the submissions period for Speakeasy opens today and closes at the end of September.

Twelfth Planet Press is announcing a reading period for Speakeasy, a new anthology to be launched at Natcon50 in Perth, Western Australia 2011.With Prohibition in full force in the US, speakeasies were all the rage, cocaine was still ( Read more... )