✨ CONTENT CREATOR APPLICATION OPEN ✨
The 2026 Content Creator badge application closes in ONE WEEK on December 7th. We welcome relevant influencers and content creators to apply for the chance at a complimentary badge.
☑️ Apply today at awesome-con.com/applications

🍗 Happy Thanksgiving! 🥧

✏️ GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT ✏️ Jarrett Melendez—Best known for Chef’s Kiss, Persona: The Official Cookbook, My Pokémon Baking Book, RuneScape: The Official Cookbook, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Official Cookbook, and more—is coming to Awesome Con in March! 🎟️ Buy badges>> awesome-con.com/badges

WAKE UP! The FINAL SEASON of Stranger Things drops TONIGHT!! Who's bingeing all of Volume One before bed tonight? 👀

📖 GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT 📖 Author @sararaaschbooks.com—best known for The Entanglement of Rival Wizards, Go Luck Yourself, The Nightmare Before Kissmas, The Fake Divination Offense, and more—is coming to Awesome Con in March! 🎟️ Buy badges >> awesome-con.com/badges

✨ APPLICATION CLOSING SOON ✨
The 2026 Cosplay Meetup application is closing in 3 weeks on December 16th. Wanna stage an EPIC group photo with other cosplayers in your fandom? This is your chance!
☑️ Apply today at awesome-con.com/applications

💟 Want to learn more about Accessibility at Awesome Con? Our Accessibility page is available year-round for your convenience. We recommend checking it out before purchasing your badge, and again before attending the event in March, in case of updates.
♿ awesome-con.com/info/accessibility

⚠️ CLOSING IN 2 WEEKS ⚠️ The 2026 Content Creator badge application is open through December 7th. We welcome relevant influencers and content creators to apply for the chance at a complimentary badge.
☑️ Apply today at awesome-con.com/applications

📖 GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT 📖 Author @sarahbethdurst.bsky.social—best known for The Spellshop, The Enchanted Greenhouse, Sea of Charms, The Queen of Blood, The Lost, The Faraway Inn, and more—is coming to Awesome Con in March! 🎟️ >> awesome-con.com/badges

X-Men 97 is FINALLY coming back...... next summer. Wouldn't it be nice if you could get your X-Men fix a few months earlier? 👀

✏️ GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT ✏️ Comic creator @schmalke.bsky.social—best known for Seven Years in Darkness, Murder Hobo, We Don't Kill Spiders, and more—is coming to Awesome Con in March!

🎟️ Buy badges >> awesome-con.com/badges
⭐ View Guests >> awesome-con.com/guest

Introducing Romancing DC—a new division of the Book Fair where you can meet romance and romantasy authors, attend panels, experience craft workshops, and even attend a formal ball! Many more details and announcements are still to come, so be sure to watch this space! awesome-con.com

🎞️ DEADLINE APPROACHING 🎞️ The regular deadline for the Awesome Con Short Film Festival presented by Astray Productions is Friday, December 19th. Have you submitted your short film yet?
📽 SUBMIT NOW >> filmfreeway.com/awesomeconshortfilmfestival

💀 Celebrate the 13th #AwesomeCon on the weekend of Friday the 13th! Best of all, you can get a FREE woven motel keychain with your reservation! 💀 BOOK NOW >> awesome-con.com/travel

*(1) keychain per room, while supplies last. Keychain must be picked up at Awesome Con in March

📖 An Open Book Foundation will be our official 2026 charity! Established locally in 2010, AOB connects Washington DC-area students with authors, illustrators, and their books to nurture a lifelong love of reading. Make a donation with your badge purchase, or learn more at anopenbookfound.org.

📣 It's official... Book Fair is BACK in partnership with @loyaltybooks.bsky.social! We're putting together some amazing author announcements for you, so keep your eyes peeled! Plus, ⚔️💜romantasy 💜⚔️ fans will want to watch this space for some exciting updates!

⭐ GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT ⭐ Parker Posey from Lost In Space, Josie and the Pussycats, Blade: Trinity, The White Lotus, Scream 3, and more is coming to Awesome Con in March! She will appear on both Saturday, and Sunday.

🎟️ Buy badges >> awesome-con.com/badges
⭐ View Guests >> awesome-con.com/guest

🎂 🍷 Happy Birthday to QUEEN Parker Posey! Wouldn't it be incredible if she could appear at Awesome Con??? 👀