Onesie Conventions

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There have been a lot of one-off conventions: Some intentionally so; others not so much. We collect them here.

We do not include conventions which are part of a series such as Worldcon, Eastercon, Eurocon, etc., regardless of whether they have similar names or not. Nor do we include conventions which were intended as one-shots but later came to be seen as an instance of a continuing convention. (E.g., Smofcon 0 or Midwestcon 0.)

See also Early Conventions for a list of conventions (mostly one-shots) held before the end of 1946.

Convention Date GoH(s) Location Notes
NECON October 14, 1951 Ken Slater, Joyce Slater Bradford, UK
Buffalocon May 2-4, 1952 Buffalo, NY Announced, but no record of it happening
IllWisCon July 4-6, 1958 Chicago
1969 Conference on Middle Earth April 25-26, 1969 Urbana, IL
A2 Relax Icon February 1972 Lloyd Biggle, Jr., Howard DeVore Ann Arbor, MI
Alpha Draconis October 29-31 1976 Hal Clement, Gordon Dickson, Kelly Freas, Mike Glicksohn, and Roy Thomas in Toronto, ON
A Mid-Winter Convention January 23-25, 1981 Long Beach, CA
Brave New Con January 13-15, 1984 Reston, VA
Altercon 666 8-10 November, 1991 John Jarrold London
Boise Fantasy Arts Convention April 24-25, 1993 Boise, ID
Attitude: The Convention February 14-17, 1996 Malvern, UK
Aliens Stole My Handbag June 30-July 2, 2000 Shepperton, UK
Archipelacon June 25–28, 2015 George R. R. Martin, Johanna Sinisalo, Karin Tidbeck, Gary K. Wolfe, Parris McBride Åland, Finland