Next year's FanWorks convention will be the weekend of August 7th – 9th, 2020 in Chicago, IL at the SpringHill Suites at O'Hare Airport.

Registration for FanWorks 2020 will open on Sunday, January 12th at 2:00pm Eastern.

Attending membership will again be $135. We are currently working out costs of bar wristbands and other possible registration add-ons, and will update with those when prices are set.

The con block room rate at the SpringHill will be $119/night for a double or king. All guest rooms at the SpringHill include a living area with a pull-out couch and a kitchenette with a fridge, microwave, cabinets, and sink.

We'll be posting an interim guide to the SpringHill soon, with a more complete photo tour coming after we do a site visit for photography in early 2020. Our website will be updated in the coming week to reflect our new dates and location.

Registration for FanWorks 2019 will be closing on Sunday, July 14th! If you haven't yet registered to attend this year's con, you have about a month left to do so. (We hope you'll come! Even if creating fanworks isn't your thing, there will be plenty of day and night activities that’ll be fun for all fans of fanworks.) We encourage registering as soon as possible rather than waiting until July if you don't have to, as space in the hotel block may become limited as time goes on. Another good reason to register in June: bar wristband sales will close on Sunday, June 30th. If you plan on buying a bar wristband at registration, please plan on registering by June 30th. Digital membership sales will remain open at least until the end of the con weekend. Key dates: June 30: Bar wristband sales close July 14: Attending registration closes August 1: Cut-off date for hotel reservations at the convention rate 

If you've been putting off registering for yourself, your partner, your friends, or anyone else, please don't forget to do so this weekend! We want to see you there.

We've had a couple inquiries, so an update about con registration:

Registration is still open for FanWorks! Registration will be open until at least the end of June, and likely through July. (We're still working on catering deadlines to determine when we'll officially close registration before the con.) All attending memberships must be purchased before the con; registration will not be available on-site.

There is an attending membership cap (160 attendees), but if registration gets down to 15-20 available spots left, we'll announce that here and on social media to give everyone a heads up. If we hit the cap and move to waitlisting, we will announce that also. Unless you hear from us that registration is waitlisted or closed, it remains open for anyone to purchase an attending membership to the con.