| Convention |
Dates |
GoHs, Notes
|
| V-Con 1 |
April 9-10, 1971 |
Ursula K. LeGuin
|
| V-Con 2 |
February 18-19, 1972 |
Philip K. Dick
|
| V-Con III |
February 22-24, 1974 |
Frank Herbert
|
| V-Con 4 |
February 21-23, 1975 |
Robert Silverberg
|
| V-Con 5 |
May 21-23, 1976 |
Larry Niven, Terry Carr
|
| No V-Con held in 1977: Westercon 38 was held in Vancouver
|
| V-Con VI |
May 26-28, 1978 |
A. E. van Vogt, Susan Wood
|
| V-Con 7 |
May 25-27, 1979 |
Jack Vance
|
| V-Con 8 |
May 23-25, 1980 |
Roger Zelazny, John Byrne, George Metzger
|
| V-Con 9 |
May 22-24, 1981 |
Vonda McIntyre, Jon Gustafson
|
| V-Con 10 |
May 21-23, 1982 |
Ben Bova, Robert Runte
|
| VCON 11 |
May 20-22, 1983 |
Frank Herbert, Bill Warren, Elizabeth Warren
|
| VCON 12 |
May 25-27, 1984 |
Samuel R. Delany, Debbie Notkin
|
| VCON 13 |
May 24-26, 1985 |
Robert Bloch, John D. Berry
|
| VCON 14 |
May 23-25, 1986 |
Fred Pohl, Eileen Kernaghan, Katherine Howes, Beth Finkbiner, Mike Finkbiner
|
| VCON 15 |
May 22-24 1987 |
Sam Moskowitz, Alex Schomburg, Forrest J Ackerman
|
| VCON 16 |
May 27-29, 1988 |
Hal Clement, John Cramer
|
| VCON 17 |
May 26-28, 1989 |
Spider Robinson, Jeanne Robinson, Robert Sheckley, Donna Barr
|
| VCON 18 |
May 25-27, 1990 |
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Dave Duncan, Roger Raupp
|
| VCON 18.5 |
February 15-17, 1991 |
Eileen Kernaghan, Constantine Hiebner
|
| VCON 19 (aka Westercon 44) |
July 4-7, 1991 |
William Gibson, C. J. Cherryh, Jerry Kaufman, Suzanne Tompkins, Steve Jackson, Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Warren Oddsson, Verna Trestrail
|
| VCON 19.5 |
May 22-24, 1992 |
Don H. DeBrandt
|
| VCON 20 |
May 28-30, 1993 |
Charles de Lint, Rob Alexander
|
| VCON hiatus
|
| VCON 21 |
May 17-19, 1996 |
Kim Stanley Robinson, William Gibson
|
| VCON 22 |
May 25-27, 1997 |
Steven Brust
|
| VCON 23 |
May 15-17, 1998 |
David Gerrold, Mike Jackson
|
| VCON 24 |
May 21-23, 1999 |
A. C. Crispin, Michael Capobianco, Betty Bigelow
|
| VCON 25 |
May 26-28, 2000 |
Robert Sawyer, Lloyd Penney, Yvonne Penney, Shane Desjardins
|
| VCON 26 |
May 4-6, 2001 |
Lynn Abbey, James Ernest, Betty Bigelow, David Bigelow, George Dyson, Candas Jane Dorsey, Al Betz
|
| VCON 27 |
October 11-13, 2002 |
James P. Blaylock, Tim Powers, Brom
|
| VCON 28 |
October 10-12, 2003 |
Nalo Hopkinson, Esther Friesner, Jordin Kare, Adrian Kleinbergen
|
| VCON 29 |
October 8-10, 2004 |
Dave Duncan, Todd Lockwood, Dr. Jaymie Matthews, Lisa Smedman
|
| VCON 30 |
October 7-9, 2005 |
Robert Silverberg, Todd Lockwood
|
| VCON 31 |
October 6-8, 2006 |
Barbara Hambly, Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk, Randy McCharles
|
| VCON 32 |
October 19-21, 2007 |
Peter S. Beagle, Michelle Dockrey, Tony Fabris, Matt Hughes, Lisa Smedman, Martin Springett
|
| VCON 33 |
October 3-5, 2008 |
Patrick Rothfuss, Lisa Snellings, Kelley Armstrong, James Ernest, Dr. Jaymie Matthews
|
| VCON 34 |
October 2-4, 2009 |
Aaron Hendricks, Don Marshall, Peter Robinson, Ryan Schmer, Myles Teves, Christine Willes, Matt Yang King, Lar DeSouza
|
| VCON 35 |
October 1–3, 2010 |
Cherie Priest, James Beveridge, Heather Dale
|
| VCON 36 |
September 30 - October 2, 2011 |
Larry Niven, Jean-Pierre Normand, Lisa Lassek
|
| VCON 37 |
September 28-30, 2012 |
James Ng, Gregory Benford, Connie Willis
|
| VCON 38 |
October 4-6, 2013 |
Dan Wells, John Kovalic, Mur Lafferty, Thyrza Segal
|
| VCON 39 |
October 3-5, 2014 |
David Weber, David Mattingly, Bruce Heard
|
| VCON 40 |
October 2-4, 2015 |
Joe Haldeman, Ed Greenwood, Rick Sternbach, Eric Choi, Steve Forty
|
| VCON 41 |
September 30 - October 2, 2016 |
Robert Sawyer, Karl Johanson, Stephanie Johanson, Jamie Anderson, Eric Chu, Stan Hyde
|
| VCON Relaxicon 41½ |
October 28-29, 2017 |
Nancie Green, R. Graeme Cameron, Kristi Charish
|
| VCON 42 / Canvention 38 |
October 5-7, 2018 |
Charles Stross, Ashley Mackenzie Amal El-Mohtar
|
VCON 43 |
2019 |
Cancelled in 2019 due to organizational difficulties; hopes to return in 2021
|
| VCON 2021 |
October 14-17, 2021 (virtual) |
Mur Lafferty, Ursula Vernon
|
VCON 2022 |
October 14-16, 2022 |
Canceled
|
