International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

(Are you looking for the Australian convention Swancon?)

The International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts is a very academic convention held annually, nearly always in Florida, which, in its early days, was also known as Swanncon after Thomas Burnett Swann, whose mother provided operating funds. While each convention has its own Guests of Honor, Brian Aldiss is a "Perennial Special Guest". (Note that they have a "GoH" and then several Guests of various flavors which their website indicates are not GoHs.)

Sponsored by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts.

Website.

Convention	Dates	GoHs, Notes
ICFA 1	March 1980	Isaac Bashevis Singer, Eric S. Rabkin
ICFA 2	1981	John Barth, Brian W. Aldiss
ICFA 3	March 10-13, 1982	Tom Stoppard, Richard Ellman
ICFA 4	March 24-27, 1983	Harlan Ellison, Damon Knight
ICFA 5	March 22-25, 1984	Stephen King, Leslie Fiedler
ICFA 6	March 13-16, 1985	Gahan Wilson
ICFA 7	1986	Brian W. Aldiss, C.N. Manlove
ICFA 8	1987	Stephen R. Donaldson, Brian Stableford
ICFA 9	March 16-20, 1988	Peter S. Beagle, Kathryn Hume
ICFA 10	1989	Doris Lessing, C.N. Manlove
ICFA 11	March 21-25, 1990	Jane Yolen, H. Bruce Franklin, Clayton Eshleman
ICFA 12	March 15-17, 1991	Gene Wolfe, Brian Attebery
ICFA 13	March 25-29, 1992	Philip José Farmer, Jack Zipes
ICFA 14	March 17-21, 1993	Ursula K. Le Guin, Sir Devendra P. Varma
ICFA 15	March 16-20, 1994	Roger Zelazny, James Flannery
ICFA 16	March 22-26, 1995	Joe Haldeman, Peter Hunt
ICFA 17	March 20-24, 1996	Greg Bear, T. A. Shippey
ICFA 18	March 19-23, 1997	Dan Simmons, N. Katherine Hayles
ICFA 1998	March 18-21, 1998	Peter Straub, Gary K. Wolfe
ICFA 20	March 17-21, 1999	Brian W. Aldiss, John Clute
ICFA 21	March 22-26, 2000	Octavia Butler, Nina Auerbach
ICFA 22	March 21-25, 2001	John Crowley, Brooks Landon
ICFA 23	March 1-3, 2002	Joan Aiken, Roderick McGillis
ICFA 24	March 19-23, 2003	Charles de Lint, S. T. Joshi
ICFA 25	March 24-28, 2004	Daína Chaviano, Marcial Souto
ICFA 26	March 16-20, 2005	Rudy Rucker, Damien Broderick
ICFA 27	March 15-19, 2006	Charles Vess, M. Thomas Inge
ICFA 28	March 14-18, 2007	Geoff Ryman, Jane Donawerth
ICFA 29	March 19-23, 2008	Vernor Vinge, Greer Gilman, Roger Luckhurst
ICFA 30	March 18-22, 2009	Guy Gavriel Kay, Robert Charles Wilson, Maria Nikolajeva
ICFA 31	March 17-21, 2010	Nalo Hopkinson, Laurence Yep, Takayuki Tatsumi
ICFA 32	March 16-20, 2011	Connie Willis, Terry Bisson, Andrea Hairston
ICFA 33	March 21-25, 2012	China Miéville, Kelly Link, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
ICFA 34	March 20-24, 2013	Neil Gaiman, Kij Johnson, Constance Penley
ICFA 35	March 18-23, 2014	Nnedi Okorafor, Ian McDonald, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.
ICFA 36	March 18-22, 2015	James Morrow, Joan Slonczewski, Colin Milburn
ICFA 37	March 16-20, 2016	Teri Windling, Holly Black, Cristina Bacchilega
ICFA 38	March 22-26, 2017	Steven Erikson, N. K. Jemisin, Edward James
ICFA 39	March 14-18, 2018	John Kessel, Nike Sulway, Fred Botting
ICFA 40	March 13-16, 2019	G. Willow Wilson, Mark Bould
ICFA 41	March 18-21, 2020
ICFA 42	March 17–20, 2021 (online)	Jeff VanderMeer, Stacy Alaimo
ICFA 43	March 16–19, 2022	Rebecca Roanhorse, Farah Mendlesohn

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