WisCon 2025: Full Schedule

WisCon 2025

1:00pm CDT

Spotlight On: Speculative Literature Foundation

Friday May 23, 2025 1:00pm - 1:45pm CDT

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Panelists

Angeli Primlani (She/Her/Hers)

Friday May 23, 2025 1:00pm - 1:45pm CDT
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Special Panel

1:00pm CDT

WisCon's Gap year

Friday May 23, 2025 1:00pm - 1:45pm CDT

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Come hear what WisCon volunteers have been up to during the gap year and what we're dreaming about for the future

Panelists

Rita Briar

SF3 Secretary & Personnel Chair, SF3

Speculative fiction writer, volunteer sf3 organizer, and gardener

Friday May 23, 2025 1:00pm - 1:45pm CDT
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Special Panel

7:00pm CDT

THE REVENGE OF THE SISTERHOOD OF THE NOT ANOTHER RACE PANEL

Friday May 23, 2025 7:00pm - 7:45pm CDT

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Moderators

Cecilia Tan

Founder and editor emeritus, Circlet Press

Cecilia Tan is the award-winning author of over a dozen novels (and three collections of short stories) including the Magic University series and The Prince's Boy . Her work has appeared everywhere from Ms. Magazine and Asimov's to Nerve and Best American Erotica. Her novel Slow Surrender... Read More →

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K.M. Enright (he/him)

K. M. Enright is the Sunday Times Bestselling author of MISTRESS OF LIES and the upcoming LORD OF RUIN (August, 2025). Find out more about his writing at kmenright.com or follow him on social media at @KM_Enright.

Keila Gallardo Cubas (They/He/She)

Friday May 23, 2025 7:00pm - 7:45pm CDT
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Special Panel

4:00pm CDT

The Year Without Sunshine and other stories

Saturday May 24, 2025 4:00pm - 4:45pm CDT

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Fan discussion of Naomi Kritzer short fiction.

Moderators

Margaret Treanor Frey (she/they)

Panelists

Lauren Ring (She/Her)

Attendee

Rita Briar

SF3 Secretary & Personnel Chair, SF3

Speculative fiction writer, volunteer sf3 organizer, and gardener

Valerie Estelle Frankel

Author, Pop Culture Author

Valerie Estelle Frankel is the author of 90 books on pop culture, including Women in Doctor Who and Hunting for Meaning in the Mandalorian. Many of her books focus on women's roles in fiction, from her heroine's journey guides From Girl to Goddess and Buffy and the Heroine's Journey... Read More →

Saturday May 24, 2025 4:00pm - 4:45pm CDT
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Special Panel

8:00pm CDT

THE BEST SUPERPOWERS FOR BANGING 7: SUPERBANGING RETURNS!

Saturday May 24, 2025 8:00pm - 10:00pm CDT

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Panelists

Claire

Essay she/her

Sam (he/him)

thingswithwings q

Saturday May 24, 2025 8:00pm - 10:00pm CDT
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Special Panel

2:00pm CDT

Imagining the Past, Divining the Future: The Works of Andrea Hairston

Sunday May 25, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm CDT

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A guided fan discussion of the works of Andrea Hairston.

Panelists

Nancy Jane Moore (she/they)

Roy Salzman-Cohen (He/Him)

Sunday May 25, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm CDT
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Special Panel

3:00pm CDT

Otherwise Discusses The Last Year in Gender-Exploring SF/F

Sunday May 25, 2025 3:00pm - 4:45pm CDT

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Sunday May 25, 2025 3:00pm - 4:45pm CDT
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Special Panel

7:00pm CDT

GOH Speeches and Otherwise Recognitions

Sunday May 25, 2025 7:00pm - 7:45pm CDT

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Guests of Honor

Naomi Kritzer

Naomi Kritzer is a science fiction and fantasy writer from St. Paul, Minnesota. In Minneapolis and St. Paul, she is probably best known for her political blog, which provides deep-dive information on candidates in local political races. Outside of the Twin Cities, she is best known... Read More →

Andrea Hairston

Andrea Hairston is a novelist, playwright, poet, and L. Wolff Kahn 1931 Professor Emerita of Theatre and Africana Studies at Smith College. She ran away from the physics lab to the theatre when she was a young thing and has been a scientist, artiste, and hoodoo conjurer ever since... Read More →

Sunday May 25, 2025 7:00pm - 7:45pm CDT
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Special Panel

1:00pm CDT

WisCon Post Mortem

Monday May 26, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm CDT

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A place to come and share about the con experience and what can be better next year.

Monday May 26, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm CDT
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Special Panel

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