Foolscap

(Did you mean the John D. Berry fanzine?)

Foolscap is a fairly sercon Seattle-area convention: "Foolscap is a small weekend conference run since 1999 where readers, writers, visual artists, and other people who love science fiction and fantasy meet, learn, talk to each other, and have a great time together."

In 2024, the committee announced its end:

We've had a pandemic. We're still having it. The nexus of fandom conversation on Twitter imploded. The entire literature and media landscape has changed, for both creators and their audiences. There are new and worrying wars out there in the world. It's exhausting.

I'd like to say that in times like these, Foolscap is needed more than ever. But I don't think that's quite right.

Community is needed more than ever. But a weekend gathering? We're all very tired, and planning an Event is a lot of work. More than that, it seems like it may not be the right work anymore, or that we no longer have access to the right kind of people for it.

Foolscap will instead move toward being a social club, retaining its Discord server, and holding weekly events. Its parent organization will remain.

• Website.

Convention	Dates	GoHs, Notes
Foolscap I	June 11-13, 1999	Octavia Butler, Paul Chadwick
Foolscap II	June 9-11, 2000	Frederik Pohl, Ginjer Buchanan
Foolscap III	September 28-30, 2001	Robin Hobb, Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio
Foolscap IV	September 27-29, 2002	Barbara Hambly, Rick Berry
Foolscap V	2003	Sergio Aragones, Greg Bear
Foolscap VI	2004	George R. R. Martin, Raven Mimura
Foolscap VII	September 23-25, 2005	Harlan Ellison, Mike Krahulik, Jerry Holkins
Foolscap VIII	2006	C. J. Cherryh, Mark Ferrari
Foolscap IX	2007	Charles de Lint, Charles Vess
Foolscap 10	2008	Esther Friesner, Michael Kaluta
Foolscap 11	2009	Peter David, Jeff Sturgeon
Foolscap 12	September 24-26, 2010	Emma Bull, Will Shetterly, Cory Ench, Catska Ench
Foolscap 13	2011	Ted Chiang, Jim Woodring
Foolscap 14	September 21-23, 2012	Joe Haldeman, Gay Haldeman, Frank Cirocco, Lela Dowling
Foolscap 15	February 1-3, 2013	Nancy Pearl
Foolscap 16	January 31-February 2, 2014	Brooks Peck, Leonard Richardson
Foolscap 17	January 30-February 1, 2015
Foolscap 18	February 5-6, 2016
Foolscap 19	February 3-5, 2017	Patricia Briggs
Foolscap 20	February 2-4, 2018
Foolscap 21	February 1-3, 2019	Nancy Kress
Foolscap 22	February 7-9, 2020	Cherie Priest
Foolscap 2021	February 12-14, 2021 (virtual)	none?
Foolscap 2022	March 11-13, 2022 March 25-27, 2022 (virtual)	None?
Foolscap 2023	August 19, 2023	none

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Convention
	1999—2023

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